ok so we have a state called kansas but wen we put a ar in front of it its pronucned arkanasa why is that?
2007-11-01 05:09:25 · 8 answers · asked by james 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Kansas City
The state of Kansas is named after the Native American tribe of the kansas nation. Arkansas is named after the Arkansas tribe Which is the french pronuciation of the Quapaw word for the down river people The pronunciation "arkansaw" was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881.Arkansas is the only state to specify the pronunciation of its name by law. This is in response to residents of Kansas who used to pronounce the state's name as ar-KANSAS
2007-11-02 17:32:21 · answer #1 · answered by G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
wow that G S guy, he's smart. so my question is, if someone from Kansas goes to Arkansaw and calls it Arkansas instead of Arkansaw, do they get arrested? And btw, I would have answered that people from Arkansas have to pronounce it tht way because of their lack of teeth. But, you know. It's up to interpretationaw..
2007-11-04 23:11:21 · answer #2 · answered by mary m 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the orignal namers of Arkansas were Frogs, and they usually drop the final s in speaking.
2007-11-01 14:24:18 · answer #3 · answered by LoneStar 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because Kansas And Arkansas is two totally different words and states
2007-11-01 13:37:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i don't know. but it sounds stupid when people say "ar-kansas" and trust me.. people do it.
i asked my dad last week the same question -- we were driving down to arkansas and he didn't know either.
sorry
2007-11-01 17:39:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just different words. Kinda like the words Mike and Nike???
2007-11-01 15:32:40 · answer #6 · answered by = ) 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because inbreeding is prevalent in Arkansas.
2007-11-01 19:30:20 · answer #7 · answered by jd_will 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bastardization of the English language
2007-11-02 09:25:19 · answer #8 · answered by djdubs 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋