Evidence would be greatly appreciated
2007-06-27 05:43:21 · 6 answers · asked by Abbas H 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Oh for Heaven's Sake. Are you for REAL?!? Now we're going to criminalize pronunciation?!? I don't think so.
2007-06-27 05:48:37 · answer #1 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Marquette and Joliet's "Journal of 1673", the Indian name is spelled AKANSEA. In LaSalle's map a few years later, it's spelled ACANSA. A map based on the journey of La Harpe in 1718-1722 refers to the river as the ARKANSAS and to the Indians as LES AKANSAS. In about 1811, Captain Zebulon Pike, a noted explorer, spelled it ARKANSAW.
During the early days of statehood, Arkansas' two U.S. Senators were divided on the spelling and pronunciation. One was always introduced as the senator from "ARkanSAW" and the other as the senator from "Ar-KANSAS."
In 1881, the state's General Assembly passed a resolution declaring that the state's name should be spelled "Arkansas" but pronounced "Arkansaw."
2007-06-27 12:55:39 · answer #2 · answered by hexeliebe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope not! I do it all the time around friends who grew up in Arkansas...
2007-06-27 12:51:08 · answer #3 · answered by Phillip N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
naw, but In all truth I never understood that "w" sound of the final "s" in Arkansas.
Should the pronunciation of Kansas as "CAN saw" be legal?
:)
2007-06-27 12:53:00 · answer #4 · answered by Alan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Os course not.
Were you arrested for that? Is that's the case it seems the police have lost their creativity.
2007-06-27 13:08:48 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How could you ask such naive question? Strange...
2007-06-27 13:08:52 · answer #6 · answered by Great62 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋