That vine is pretty funny but actually I do have the answer to that.
Both “Kansas” and “Arkansas” are names of indigenous people in the area, but the lingustic root for both words is different.
Kansas is the English word for the Kansa tribe, and so it’s pronounced according to English pronunciation rules (that is, voicing that last ‘s’).
Arkansas was filtered through a few different languages. The Quapaw tribe was called the ‘akansa’ by the Algonquians, and when the French came through they turned ‘akansa’ into “Arkansas.” The reason we don’t pronounce “Arkansas” like “Ar-kansas” is because it’s a French word, not an English word, and so is pronounced by French rules (here, that would mean that the ‘s’ on the end of a word is silent).
Fun fact: though I’m from Arkansas, spent most of my life living elsewhere, and when I was a kid would get asked this all the time and other kids would tell me that Arkansas is a ‘stupid rip off’ of Kansas, but really it’s the other way around, because Arkansas was a state before Kansas was– AR joined the union in 1836, but Kansas wasn’t admitted until 1861. So really we can argue that Kansas should be pronounced Kan-saw.
Another fun fact: in Arkansas it’s actually illegal to mispronounce “Arkansas” (but the law only applies to official proceedings. you might get beat up on a street corner by angry Arkansans tho don’t risk it)
However there are many funny “Arkansas” puns I’ve heard over the years. My friends in Florida used to accuse me of having “Arkansass” when I was sarcastic, or assured me when I was preparing for a date that I have a nice “Arkanass.” Legally, I don’t know of their currant whereabouts, don’t ask again.
Once I saw a BBQ in Little Rock called “Arkansauce”
americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip
My friend in the UK told me that they only see their father like 2-3 times a year because they live so far away. When I asked how far do they live, they said that it’s a 45 minute drive……. my commute to work, five days a week is an hour.
What I find mind-blowing is that I can drive in my STATE for seven hours and still be in the state, depending what direction I’m going. Hell, I can drive TWELVE hours and still be in my state, because Michigan is huge. But then I went to Belgium once and like…that’s a whole country. That’s a whole country and we drove across it in like an hour and a half.
just saw someone say online that they’ve never seen mountains irl and lost my mind. is this an experience you guys have had. are there some people who havent seen mountains
i’ve never seen mountains. but i live on and island and i lose my mind when people tell me they’ve never seen the ocean. the ocean. some people have never seen the ocean before.
What really gets me is that some people have never seen either.
So anyone else here seen “The Mist”? All I could think of when I saw this…
This is so cool can someone explain the scientific phenomena behind this?
Just checked, this is a shelf cloud, a type of arcus cloud that usually signals the coming of severe weather. This is actually fairly normal behavior for shelf clouds, I think it’s just that the video is really close to the squall so it looks extremely ominous.
I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can.
These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.
this is to educate my non-American followers. This really is how the US sees itself. (and yes, 95% of the time, Florida = WHAT?!)
In Florida the more North you go, the more “South” you get
In Florida the central part pretends to be the south, the western part pretends to be the northeast and the south pretends to be the west I’m not even kidding you
… Please tell me you guys are kidding.
Florida is like it’s own country I swear
I’m from Florida and I can confirm this. Also, South Florida is basically Miami and alligators.
oh, i always assumed florida was part of The South?
north florida is yes. The rest is not.
I’m from Florida, and grew up in SC/NC. Can confirm all true. 👍
Um. This is so wrong.
You’re forgetting the part where California sees itself as its own entity.
We do not want to be grouped in with everyone else, thanks.
clearly none of you have ever met someone from texas
I’m so glad someone mentioned Texans because yes ^
this map is fascinating for a variety of reasons but the particular part of it that made me fall down a wikihole was the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture, which I was not familiar with. they seem pretty cool for a variety of reasons but what caught my eye is that they’d build a city, literally the largest city in the world they would build, and then they’d live there for about sixty years, and then they’d burn the fucker down. Why? Nobody knows. They’d move somewhere else and do the whole thing over, and then maybe move back and rebuild the first city identically on the same foundations. In one place they did that thirteen times.
this is some SCP type shit. what was chasing them. what happened in these cities that they needed burning down over and over
…what
right????? also i forgot my favorite part: we can’t get buildings to burn down this way. we’ve tried, nobody has actually managed to set a fire that leaves the same kind of rubble. it is not…traditional…fire
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