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  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Arkansas” and “Kansas” are both from the Osage language, but the former passed through French on its way to English.

    • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net
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      1 year ago

      In Spanish they do rhyme and their endings are pronounced the exact same, as in Kansas. I was greatly puzzled when I discovered that the French managed to mangle the name Arkansas that badly back in the day

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      I’ve heard that, but “Ar Kan Saw” is nothing like how a French person would pronounce “Arkansas”