curious mate...................... why do you call Arkasas - Arkinsaw? I am not having a dig here man, I am genuinely curious.
We drop the s at the end. Its spelled Arkansas but we say it more like Arkansa as opposed to Arkansaw. Dont say "saw" say "sa" hold the "a" longer so it is almost a double "aa". It becomes almost Arkansaa. The southern dialect drops lots of letters and exagerates other ones. In general the letter "r" that occurs in the middle of a word is also exagerated. So when you say it make sure you give it a slightly exagerated "r" as well but not as exagerated as the "a". There are quite a few different southern accents but where I am from origninaly that is how we say it. We also like to say long sayings as opposed to saying words. You will say things like "Thats like a taking tick off a bear", meaning its hard to do. Things like that.
Assam Allam was its governor. The Cansas Till We Die group have been campaigning since 1867 to stop people using the mis-pronunciation. The US Senate agreed that the spelling had to remain the same but that in general usage the new version could be used. Marketing expert Gerald Ratner said recently that having a shorter governor improved the chances of investment.
If you want a real reason why we do things like that it probably has to do with imigration and the size of our country. Our imigrants came in waves and most of those imigrants did not speak English as a first language. They tended to settle in like places with waves of people moving west. Once settled people tended to stay in one place for generations. So you get Scottish and Germans moving west into the appalachian mountains which was then indian territories. Once there they never left and established a dialect that is all their own and a mixture of their first language, English and the accent that existed before they arrived. Obviously education would probably have changed things which is why your pronounced accents tend to be rural ones. Even today the southern accent is considered to be less educated. I am not an anthropologist though. Forgot you were in Texas. Texas is really its own thing, it isnt really a Southern State much more of a western one. If you want a real southern accent you need to go into Alabama or Mississippi (the deep south). The Appalachian accents will be in the mountains in SC, NC, TN, KY, VA and WV.
You'd love it here, we have Withernsea (pronounced wiverunsea), Scarborough (pronounced Scarbrer) and my personal favourite, Brough (pronounced Bruff).
It's aluminum, lootenant Barry Scott. While your here, I've got some tomayto stains on my pants. Got anything for it?
Are ur sure it aint blood, Bob? Maybe ur Hemorrhoids have done been bleeding again there boy? BTW Some Bri'ish folks on here have gotten confused by American spelling and grammar checkers.
Well google found the specific answer for you. It is a french pronunciation of the name of the area in the originial Sioux language. The orgininal name was spelled Quapaw. It is spelled like Kansas where the tribe also lived amoung other places. In 1881, the state's General Assembly passed a resolution declaring that the state's name should be spelled "Arkansas" but pronounced "Arkansaw." The "saw" because of that is how the locals said it and that the fact they did not want the pronunciation to be similar to Kansas which was a state in the Union.
Only by the morons from Hull who moved there, when the new estates were built in the early 60's. Us locals only ever said Thorn.
I think Aussies change things more than anyone else i know, everyones job seems to end in 'ies' or 'os'. Firies, Ambos, garbos. And as for how you say some of the place names here its unbelievable. There is Indooroopilly, which is pronounced Indrapilly (not sure who invented that name, someone with a sense of humour), Koomboomloomba (thats where the little men in Willy Wonka must come from), not to mention Australia having no 'L' in its pronunciation.
