as Ark-ken-saw and not Ark-kansas?

Vivian

Or maybe Kansas should really be Kansaw LOL

Because people were smart enough not to associate Arkansas with that boring plains state! :p)

Okay, okay, I actually don't know. That's a good question!

-Steve



Cottonwood Lake, CO - Altitude 9,552 Feet

who knows?

Glenda's Myspace Page

it's just a Southern thing.

www.newcobowhunter.blogspot.com

the part of the "Ar-ken-saw" river that flows through Kansas is pronounced "Ar-kansas"...apparently the pronounciation changes at the border. Things that make you go "hmmmmm"...

Amy

The name Arkansas derives from the same root as the name for the State of Kansas. The Kansas tribe of American Indians are closely associated with the Sioux tribes. The word is a French pronunciation of a Quapaw (a related "Kaw" tribe) word meaning "land of downriver people" or "people of the south wind". The pronunciation of Arkansas (ar-kan-saw) was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881 after a dispute between the two U.S. Senators from Arkansas. One wanted to pronounce the word ar-kan-sas and the other wanted ar-kan-saw.