ALABAMA. Possibly from the Creek Indian word alibamo, meaning "we stay
here."
ALASKA. From the Aleutian word alakshak, which means "great lands," or
"land that is not an island."
ARIZONA. Taken either from the pima Indian words ali shonak, meaning
"little spring," or from the Aztec word arizuma, meaning "silver-
bearing."
ARKANSAS. The French somehow coined it from the name of the Siouan
Quapaw tribe.
CALIFORNIA. According to one theory, Spanish settlers names it after a
utopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel called
Serged de Esplandian.
COLORADO. Means "red" in Spanish. The name was originally applied to
the Colorado River, whose waters are reddish with canyon clay.
CONNECTICUT. Taken from the Mohican word kuenihtekot, which means
"long river place."
DELAWARE. Named after Lord De La Warr, a governor of Virginia.
Originally used only to name the Delaware River.
FLORIDA. Explorer Ponce de Leon named the state Pascua Florida -
"flowery Easter"-on Easter Sunday in 1513.
GEORGIA. Named after King George II of England, who charted the colony
in 1732.
HAWAII. An English adaptation of the native word owhyhee, which means
"homeland."
IDAHO. Possibly taken from the Kiowa Apache word for the Comanche
Indians.
ILLINOIS. The French bastardization of the Algonquin word illini,
which means "men."
INDIANA. Named by English-speaking settlers because the territory was
full of Indians.
IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to sleep."
KANSAS. Taken from the Sioux word for "south wind people," their name
for anyone who lived south of Sioux territory.
KENTUCKY. Possibly derived from the Indian word kan-tuk-kee, meaning
"dark and bloody ground." Or kan-tuc-kec, "land of green reeds", or
ken-take, meaning "meadowland."
LOUISIANA. Named after French King Louis XIV.
MAINE. The Old French word for "province."
MARYLAND. Named after Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of English King
George I.
MASSACHUSETTS. Named after the Massachusetts Indian tribe. Means
"large hill place."
MICHIGAN. Most likely from the Chippewa word for "great water."
micigama.
MINNESOTA. From the Sioux word for "sky tinted" or "muddy water."
MISSISSIPPI. Most likely taken from the Chippewa words mici ("great")
and zibi ("river").
MISSOURI. From the Algonquin word for "muddy water."
MONTANA. Taken from the Latin word for "mountainous."
NEBRASKA. From the Otos Indian word for "broad water."
NEVADA. Means "snow-clad" in Spanish.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. Capt. John Mason, one of the original colonists, named
it after his English home county of Hampshire.
NEW JERSEY. Named after the English Isle of Jersey.
NEW MEXICO. The Spanish name for the territory north of the Rio
Grande.
NEW YORK. Named after the Duke of York and Albany.
NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. From the Latin name Carolus; named in honor
of King Charles I of England.
NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. Taken from the Sioux word for "friend," or
"ally."
OHIO. Means "great," "fine," or "good river" in Iriquois.
OKLAHOMA. The Choctaw word for "red man."
OREGON. Possibly derived from Ouaricon-sint, the French name for the
Wisconsin River.
PENNSYLVANIA. Named after William Penn, Sr., the father of the
colony's founder, William Penn. Means "Penn's woods."
RHODE ISLAND. Named "Roode Eylandt" (Red Island) because of its red
clay.
TENNESSEE. Named after the Cherokee tanasi villages along the banks of
the Little Tennessee River.
TEXAS. Derived from the Caddo Indian word for "friend," or "ally."
UTAH. Means "upper," or "higher," and was originally the name that
Navajos called the Shoshone tribe.
VERMONT. A combination of the French words vert ("green") and mont
("mountain").
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England,
the "virgin" queen, by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.
WASHINGTON. Named after George Washington.
WISCONSIN. Taken from the Chippewa word for "grassy place."
WYOMING. Derived from the Algonquin word for "large prairie place."
On Jun 4, 8:19 pm, "Leon" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Which brings up the comment I heard a few weeks ago. One of the ladies in
> the Miss America pageant refused to wear her state banner.
>
> Can you guess which one?
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
>
> I da ho
I'm not going to say it...where is Imus?
On Jun 4, 6:33 pm, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy wrote:
>
> | IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to
> | sleep."
>
> Interesting - and all this time I thought it was an incomplete
> sentence.
>
as in: I owe a shitload of money?
PS, you are taking this mild ribbing rather well, Morris. Always the
gentleman.
r
On Jun 6, 8:43 am, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mike in Arkansas wrote:
>
> | IOWA?? huh, here in Arkansas we pronounce that OHIO
>
> Ok - I suppose it was for my friends in Arkansas that I added maps to
> my web site showing where Iowa is located... :-D
>
> --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USAhttp://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/where.html
When you look at the big USA map, we're not that far from each
other...but tell me.. how did a yellow state vote?
Mon, Jun 4, 2007, 12:27pm (EDT-3) [email protected] (Robatoy) typed a
bunch of stuff about the states that I snipped.
My theory is, you're being kept away from sharp objects for awhile;
so, with no access to your shop, you have a lot of excess time on your
hands, and came up with this to busy yourself.
JOAT
What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new
humiliations?
- Peter Egan
Spanish word meaning "Blood Red"
Puff
"Doug Payne" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> Robatoy wrote:
>
>> COLORADO. Means "red" in Spanish.
>
> 'Colored', not 'red'. Red is 'rojo'.
Lou wrote:
| I have been to Iowa, and have seen the real reason.
|
| I O W A
| d u a r
| i t l o
| o k u
| t i n
| s n d
| g
I've heard that, too - most often from Minnesotans. I've heard they're
jealous that Iowa has three seasons they lack: Spring, Summer, and
Autumn. Personally, I think it has more to do with being made to eat
lutefisk at an impressionable age.
;-)
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
Robatoy wrote:
| On Jun 4, 6:33 pm, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote:
|| Robatoy wrote:
||
||| IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to
||| sleep."
||
|| Interesting - and all this time I thought it was an incomplete
|| sentence.
||
| as in: I owe a shitload of money?
'Zackly.
| PS, you are taking this mild ribbing rather well, Morris. Always the
| gentleman.
Easily done. I was originally a Georgia boy - and came to Iowa by way
of Indiana, Michigan, Saudi Arabia, Colorado, Illinois, California,
North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, and
Pennsylvania.
Two things make the ribbing easy to take: [1] They're all good places
(yes, even New Jersey <g>) filled with good people, and [2] I love a
good joke.
Gentleman? What does /that/ mean?
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
Robatoy wrote:
| On Jun 6, 8:43 am, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote:
|| Mike in Arkansas wrote:
||
||| IOWA?? huh, here in Arkansas we pronounce that OHIO
||
|| Ok - I suppose it was for my friends in Arkansas that I added maps
|| to my web site showing where Iowa is located... :-D
|
| When you look at the big USA map, we're not that far from each
| other...but tell me.. how did a yellow state vote?
Cautiously.
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/where.html
> THE NAME:
>
> The state of Iowa, originally a territory of Wisconsin west of the Mississippi River, was named after the Iowa River.
>
> The Iowa River was named after the Iowa Indians who lived in the territory. The tribal name "Ayuxwa" was spelled by the French as "Ayoua" and by the English as "Ioway." "Ayuxwa" means "one who puts to sleep."
Everything quoted below to simply use up bandwidth and break with the newest
of internet traditions...
Now... My REAL question: What is the source for this list?
Regards,
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"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> ALABAMA. Possibly from the Creek Indian word alibamo, meaning "we stay
> here."
>
> ALASKA. From the Aleutian word alakshak, which means "great lands," or
> "land that is not an island."
>
> ARIZONA. Taken either from the pima Indian words ali shonak, meaning
> "little spring," or from the Aztec word arizuma, meaning "silver-
> bearing."
>
> ARKANSAS. The French somehow coined it from the name of the Siouan
> Quapaw tribe.
>
> CALIFORNIA. According to one theory, Spanish settlers names it after a
> utopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel called
> Serged de Esplandian.
>
> COLORADO. Means "red" in Spanish. The name was originally applied to
> the Colorado River, whose waters are reddish with canyon clay.
>
> CONNECTICUT. Taken from the Mohican word kuenihtekot, which means
> "long river place."
>
> DELAWARE. Named after Lord De La Warr, a governor of Virginia.
> Originally used only to name the Delaware River.
>
> FLORIDA. Explorer Ponce de Leon named the state Pascua Florida -
> "flowery Easter"-on Easter Sunday in 1513.
>
> GEORGIA. Named after King George II of England, who charted the colony
> in 1732.
>
> HAWAII. An English adaptation of the native word owhyhee, which means
> "homeland."
>
> IDAHO. Possibly taken from the Kiowa Apache word for the Comanche
> Indians.
>
> ILLINOIS. The French bastardization of the Algonquin word illini,
> which means "men."
>
> INDIANA. Named by English-speaking settlers because the territory was
> full of Indians.
>
> IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to sleep."
>
> KANSAS. Taken from the Sioux word for "south wind people," their name
> for anyone who lived south of Sioux territory.
>
> KENTUCKY. Possibly derived from the Indian word kan-tuk-kee, meaning
> "dark and bloody ground." Or kan-tuc-kec, "land of green reeds", or
> ken-take, meaning "meadowland."
>
> LOUISIANA. Named after French King Louis XIV.
>
> MAINE. The Old French word for "province."
>
> MARYLAND. Named after Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of English King
> George I.
>
> MASSACHUSETTS. Named after the Massachusetts Indian tribe. Means
> "large hill place."
>
> MICHIGAN. Most likely from the Chippewa word for "great water."
> micigama.
>
> MINNESOTA. From the Sioux word for "sky tinted" or "muddy water."
>
> MISSISSIPPI. Most likely taken from the Chippewa words mici ("great")
> and zibi ("river").
>
> MISSOURI. From the Algonquin word for "muddy water."
>
> MONTANA. Taken from the Latin word for "mountainous."
>
> NEBRASKA. From the Otos Indian word for "broad water."
>
> NEVADA. Means "snow-clad" in Spanish.
>
> NEW HAMPSHIRE. Capt. John Mason, one of the original colonists, named
> it after his English home county of Hampshire.
>
> NEW JERSEY. Named after the English Isle of Jersey.
>
> NEW MEXICO. The Spanish name for the territory north of the Rio
> Grande.
>
> NEW YORK. Named after the Duke of York and Albany.
>
> NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. From the Latin name Carolus; named in honor
> of King Charles I of England.
>
> NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. Taken from the Sioux word for "friend," or
> "ally."
>
> OHIO. Means "great," "fine," or "good river" in Iriquois.
>
> OKLAHOMA. The Choctaw word for "red man."
>
> OREGON. Possibly derived from Ouaricon-sint, the French name for the
> Wisconsin River.
>
> PENNSYLVANIA. Named after William Penn, Sr., the father of the
> colony's founder, William Penn. Means "Penn's woods."
>
> RHODE ISLAND. Named "Roode Eylandt" (Red Island) because of its red
> clay.
>
> TENNESSEE. Named after the Cherokee tanasi villages along the banks of
> the Little Tennessee River.
>
> TEXAS. Derived from the Caddo Indian word for "friend," or "ally."
>
> UTAH. Means "upper," or "higher," and was originally the name that
> Navajos called the Shoshone tribe.
>
> VERMONT. A combination of the French words vert ("green") and mont
> ("mountain").
>
> VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England,
> the "virgin" queen, by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.
>
> WASHINGTON. Named after George Washington.
>
> WISCONSIN. Taken from the Chippewa word for "grassy place."
>
> WYOMING. Derived from the Algonquin word for "large prairie place."
>
Robatoy wrote:
> On Jun 4, 6:33 pm, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robatoy wrote:
>>
>> | IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to
>> | sleep."
>>
>> Interesting - and all this time I thought it was an incomplete
>> sentence.
>>
> as in: I owe a shitload of money?
>
>
> PS, you are taking this mild ribbing rather well, Morris. Always the
> gentleman.
>
> r
>
>
Another Iowegian here to report: Back in the '70's, it seems a lot
of the truckers were getting pulled over for various things on I-80 or
I-35 and a lot of them truckers were making the letters IOWA to mean: I
Oughta Went Around.
Robatoy wrote:
>
> CALIFORNIA. According to one theory, Spanish settlers names it after a
> utopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel called
> Serged de Esplandian.
>
I always thought:
Cali - from the Latin calefacere - to make warm or hot
Fornia - from the Latin fornicari - to fornicate
Thus, the place of hot sex
Glen
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
SNIP
> WYOMING. Derived from the Algonquin word for "large prairie place."
>
As I understand it, it was the name of one of the local tribes/bands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Jun 6, 8:43 am, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mike in Arkansas wrote:
>>
>> | IOWA?? huh, here in Arkansas we pronounce that OHIO
>>
>> Ok - I suppose it was for my friends in Arkansas that I added maps to
>> my web site showing where Iowa is located... :-D
>>
>> --
>> Morris Dovey
>> DeSoto Solar
>> DeSoto, Iowa USAhttp://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/where.html
>
> When you look at the big USA map, we're not that far from each
> other...but tell me.. how did a yellow state vote?
Waving a white flag?
--
"Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes
balls to get old!"
Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 11:23am [email protected] (Mike=A0M) did sayeth:
<snip> "Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes balls to get old!"
Well that explains a lot about some old women I've met.
JOAT
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton
"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 11:23am [email protected] (Mike M) did sayeth:
<snip> "Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes balls to get old!"
< Well that explains a lot about some old women I've met.
What??? Did you check????
--
"Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes
balls to get old!"
Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 1:30pm [email protected] (Mike=A0M) doth asketh:
What??? Did you check????
Nope. I don't have the balls.
JOAT
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton
"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 1:30pm [email protected] (Mike M) doth asketh:
What??? Did you check????
Nope. I don't have the balls.
Bah! Kids!!!!
--
"Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes
balls to get old!"
Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 3:32pm [email protected] (Mike=A0M)
Bah! Kids!!!!
Nope, vasectomy in 1980.
I'm 66 now, and I've learned to appreciate older women. You know,
21, 22, 23.
JOAT
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton
"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 3:32pm [email protected] (Mike M)
Bah! Kids!!!!
Nope, vasectomy in 1980.
I'm 66 now
Great age! When's the apocalypse?
, and I've learned to appreciate older women. You know,
21, 22, 23.
Too old for me. <eg>
--
"Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes
balls to get old!"
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Jun 11, 10:40 pm, [email protected] (J T) wrote:
>> Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 3:41pm [email protected] (Mike M) doth sayeth:
>> <snip> Too old for me. <eg>
>>
>> 16 will get you 20.
>>
>
> 14 will get you 12
>
> (MY 14-year old daughter will get you 12 (gauge))
Too messy.
--
"Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes
balls to get old!"
On Jun 11, 10:40 pm, [email protected] (J T) wrote:
> Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 3:41pm [email protected] (Mike M) doth sayeth:
> <snip> Too old for me. <eg>
>
> 16 will get you 20.
>
14 will get you 12
(MY 14-year old daughter will get you 12 (gauge))
Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 3:41pm [email protected] (Mike=A0M) doth sayeth:
<snip> Too old for me. <eg>
16 will get you 20.
JOAT
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton
"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 3:41pm [email protected] (Mike M) doth sayeth:
<snip> Too old for me. <eg>
16 will get you 20.
Not if I'm 17.
--
"Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes
balls to get old!"