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ThurberMingus · 1798 days ago · link · · parent · post: Anyone ever feel tempted to pronounce "Arkansas" as "Are Kansas" or "Kansas" as "Can Saw" just to mess with people?
You don't need to feel bad for finding humor in the game of telephone that results in most of our place names. There are a whole bunch of names in the Midwest that came from the French asking one native questions about people who spoke completely unrelated languages that they didn't know.