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LA is the abbreviation for Louisiana
L3WG confusing L.A. a CITY in CA and LA a state itself 😂
I laughed.
He corrected himself like two seconds later
Each state has an abbreviation which is used for various reasons including for postal mail. Texas=TX, Louisiana=LA, California=CA.
Utah is high elevation not drug induced. A large percentage of the state population are Mormon faith followers who abstain from drugs including caffeine
😂😂😂😂😂
This made me so mad😅
He saw it was Louisiana = LA
AND STILL didn't connect
FL = Florida
CA = California
CO = Colorado
...LA = Louisiana
There's actually a song called, "Fifty Nifty United States" which names off all 50 states alphabetically. It's an extremely useful song to know because it not only helps you memorize all 50 states names, but has helped to quickly narrow down states starting with a letter.
Animaniacs.
@@BoilingDietCokeit actually predates that. I learned it in choir in like 1986. I can still rattle off all 50 states in alphabetical order because of it, lol.
Lol that song is like the only reason I come close to naming all
80s children UNITE!
YOU DAMN, RIGHT WE CAN SING THE 50 NIFTY UNITED STATES!
If you can’t, you weren’t paying attention
Yessss i learned it from that
I am a history and geography teacher in South Carolina. And I do actually know where Nottingham’s name comes from! About 600 CE, there was an Anglo people group called the Snod or Snot, meaning caves. The area they were in was called “Snotengaham” or Home of the Snod. When the Normans in came in they dropped the S, changed the spelling to fit their language and it became Nottingham.
Who knew how "Snot-ty" Lewis was?!!! 😮 🤣 lol 🤪
And here I am with the reaction "Like sheriff of??!" 🫠
I love it here in SC, I’ll never leave.
or "where's Robin Hood?"@@questionablecontent2113
I have my BS in History & didn't know a lot if these!😅
We lived in Hawai'i for several years and neither of the theories mentioned in this video are what was taught to us. We were taught by native speaking Hawaiians that the name comes from combining 3 separate Hawaiian words: ha (meaning breath, or breath of life), wai (meaning water or life force), and 'i (meaning supreme) roughly translated to "from the water we receive the breath of life" or "the water is the supreme source of the breath of life." And when you consider that the islands are of volcanic origin and emerged out of the water, when you also consider that much of Hawai'i is quite rainy which is necessary for food, and when you also consider how important seafood is to the native diet, the name Hawai'i meaning water is the source of life makes a lot of sense.
Also the so-called apostrophe is called 'okina in Hawaiian and is a recognized letter of the Hawaiian alphabet and signifies a glottal stop (think the brief pause in "uh-oh" in English). If you look closely, the apostrophe is shaped like a 9 while the 'okina is shaped like a 6. On the official documents of the US government the 'okina was dropped because it is not a letter in the English alphabet. You will commonly see the Hawaiian spelling with the 'okina in Hawai'i.
that's cool that Hawaii actually means that, being from the South East U.S. i never knew that, thank you.
Quite educational for someone who doesn't know much about Hawaii
@@julcarre383 did you just dismiss a fact from someone who learned about the origin of the state name from someone who clearly was born and raised there themselves? if an indigenous person gave me the correct information, i hate to break it to you but you are instantly in the wrong no matter what you say to the contrary
It's technically a mystery as they don't actually know but the three most common theories are that 1) the name Hawaii comes from the combination of words “Hawa” and “ii”. Hawa means a traditional homeland, and ii means small and ranging.
2) the tropical islands are named after the traditional discover of the islands, Hawaii Loa. Hawaii Loa was a Polynesian legend and hero who would roam the ocean during fishing excursions lasting months
3) the name Hawaii comes from Hawaki, which was believed to be the home of the gods.Hawaki is also believed to be the traditional home of the Polynesian people before they were migrated across the Pacific Ocean in open canoes.
@@Biotechnuswhile I find the comment you are referring to as rude and without any information to dispute I have to point out that you are dead wrong. Indigenous people falsely believe historical events all the time and are dead wrong. To just blindly believe something because a "native" said it is wildly ignorant. And in this case the theory provided isn't necessarily wrong as it is broadly agreed that it is unknown exactly where the origin of the states name came from.
27:35 the English government would “grant” land to specific colonizing groups. So you had various land grant names based on what colony they were granted to.
The US government also granted land to the early settlers that were willing to settle the "west" at whichever point across our country we had land grabbed from the Natives at that particular point in time. Think of the 1992 movie Far and Away. The government were desperate to find people who were willing to try and settle where there were still so many threats to life. Threats such as wild animals, certain native tribes, and lack of resources. Not to mention lack of timely military support. There was no one coming to save you. Those settlers were brave.
Utah meaning "high" refers to the high elevation. There are a lot of tall mountains and even most the valleys between the mountains are pretty high in elevation. The average elevation is 6100 feet (1859 m) above sea level. This puts it in 3rd place after Colorado (6800 ft) and Wyoming (6700 ft) as the states with the highest average elevation.
The state is full of Mormons (Church of Later Day Saints) and they do not have recreational marijuana laws or medical as far as I know. Sparsely populated, desert like, and home to The Great Salt Lake, it has some of that scenery YOU want to ride a horse in (I recommend a 4x4 rock crawler tour)
@@marklar7551 we have medical marijuana, have to have a card, the law is stupid the people voted for legalization and won then basically stepped in. its easy but expensive to get a card and think they recently changed it to renew every year vs the every 6 months it was before.
It was founded by the Mormons so it probably has way less marijuana use than many surrounding states like Colorado. This is why it still has a large Mormon population to this day.
I am actually pretty sure that the Name Utah came from the Natives which were called Utes
The name Utah did come from the Native American Indians named Ute….
France and Spain both colonized and “owned” large portions of the US, prior to all 50 states being formed. We kept the names and changed the pronunciation of some of them
It seems most American's these days don't even know this. France and Spain also colonized MUCH more land mass here than Britain ever did.
Oddly enough, New York was originally a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam. The British needed to counter the French along the Mississippi River & Quebec and kicked the Dutch out of New York & Pennsylvania. Many Dutch names remain, the Schuylkill river running thru Philadelphia means hidden river in Dutch. The rivers in Staten Island in NYC are named something kill, Dutch word for river, such as fresh kills. The remains of the World Trade Center were taken to a clearing by the river after 9/11, fresh kills. Wall Street gets its name from the Dutch fortifications at what was once the end of Manhattan island before the island was expanded south. I digress 😃
I too thought the video was going to explain NY was first colonized by the Dutch and was called New Amsterdam.
Yup. Growing up there - really the most interesting History. Now, I live in NC (I was 42 when I moved & being History person there is so much here too). But, NY will always be my home. I wouldn't have minded if it stayed New Amsterdam 😊😊
Brooklyn is the oldest borough of NYC predating settlement of Manhattan by about 12 years. The name “Brooklyn” itself was given by the Dutch. It literally means Broken-Land (Bruk Lynn) because of all it’s hills, rivers, ridges and ponds. Throughout the 1800’s Brooklyn was it’s own city. It joined Manhattan as another of the 5 boroughs when the Bklyn Bridge was completed in 1900. By itself Brooklyn is the 4th largest city in the USA. NYC (all 5 boroughs including; Bklyn, Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island) is Americas largest city (population size), Los Angeles is # 2, Chicago is # 3, then Brooklyn (#4, by itself) followed by Houston TX as #5. With the exception of a few of it’s Islands The Bronx is the only NYC borough located mostly on the mainland, all the rest of NYC is a series of islands completely surrounded by water and built on solid bedrock.
Someone born in raised in Utah, I was taught that Utah was named from the many different tribes of Ute people (Ute, Piaute, and Goshute).
Then many years later, I was speaking to a member of the Goshute Tribe who said Utah was pronounced with a soft D in place of the T. And in their language that word meant the coming together of people.
That's what I thought, too, a reference to the Ute.s
I wasn't born in Utah, but it absolutely was named after the Ute tribe. However, the actual meaning of "Utah" is disputed.
I was born and raised in Utah and I was always taught it was named after the Ute tribe.
For the city of Los Angeles...The original name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula" (in English, "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Porciúncula"), giving it both one of the longest and shortest (referring to its shortening of "LA") place names in the world.
I don’t know for certain, but I’d guess that Utah actually probably has some of the lowest percentages of people getting high as it has a majority of residents who are of the Mormon faith which doesn’t even believe in drinking coffee because they consider it’s effect drug-like.
I was going to say the same thing.
There are some nice high mountains for skiing, but with Utah being populated by the Latter Day Saints (Mormon's), they are less likely to do drugs. They don't even sell hard liquor in the state. 😂
Now ‘explain’ what a momon is - or refer him to the SouthPark episode
But there is also a plant indigenous to utah some of the native tribes used to brew that is considered a hallucinogen. I cant remember the name though so off to google. However now with the state being the home of the LDS church, the general population does not participate in substances.
@@johns7283 There are Mormons in the U.K. as well as Utah. Utah is just where their headquarters is located. No I'm not Mormon nor am I from Utah, but I have family who are.
If you look at the world map, look at the close proximity of Alaska and Russia. They're super close to each other.
At 1 point in the Bering Strait, they are like 5 miles from each other.
@@shannonhamlin4938 At its narrowest point it is 55 miles (or 53 depending on which source you believe).
There are also 2 islands within 2 miles of each other between Russia and Alaska. One is owned by Russia and one is owned by the US (big diomede and little diomede). The Russian island is uninhabited I believe but the US one has Inuits on it.
I was taught the “name of the states” song in elementary. We also had to learn the state capitals of each. Grew up in Oklahoma, also learned the meaning behind our states name!
I’ll bet the song you’re referring to is called Fifty Nifty. I learned that one too.
@@kaymuldoon3575 I think most US residents can list the states alphabetically using that song. And then flip over to Animaniacs for the capitals....LOL
I’m from Ohio. We have a river in Ohio that runs north and south through the state called Scioto. The name is more interesting as it translates to “hairy river” or “hairy deer.” Folklore said it got the name from the Wyandotte people because when the deer visited the river during molting season big clumps of hair would float down the river. May not be totally true but it’s a fun story. I’m in Columbus and we have a number of bronze statues of deer lounging around next to the river.
I’m from Chillicothe and the Scioto goes right through it. I didn’t know where the name came from
nice, as a fellow resident of Ohio i did not know this, i live in Cincinnati but i have an Aunt and Uncle who live in Columbus. Cincinnati get's it's name from one of Rome's best dictators (not the evil kind, but the original meaning of the term, as in in a time of crisis one individual is given authority to issue orders to most if not all of the country for a set period of time until no longer needed where they will step down from power), Cincinnatus.
Cuyahoga, Tuscarawas, and others...tons of Native names since this was at the time, the largest area of Native collaboration.
Same. I'm from the Gallipolis area. I was pretty aware of a lot of the origins of names around me and many were Native, some were from the French colonists, some from people returning from the Mexican war, some German and Dutch names, a bunch of boring names that are found in many states, and then Cincinnati being it's own special self.
I’m FROM Warren Ohio.
The name comes from the American 1970’s meaning “land of abandoned factories”
I’m from Iowa. We have a lot of communities named after Native American words. In 7th grade I had to memorize all 99 counties in Iowa. It was quite a tongue twister.
Iowan also!
i've been living in Iowa for 12+ years now. I had to hear the names spoken after i'd butcher saying them. It was usually just a difference in pronunciation perspective though. Like Maquoketa, for instance. I was emphasizing the M, Q, K, and T. :D and then the person i said it in front of giggled before correcting me.
Though I have been living in South Dakota for the last 14 years, I was born and grew up in Iowa... yet we were never required to memorize all 99 counties. >_>
I wonder when they stopped (started) requiring it. For the sake of reference, I am in my early 40s...
I am in Kansas and from Oklahoma. We are taught in school the origins of our states' names. In this part of the country, were aware most of the names are of Native American origin.
Also, check out a band called Kansas who wrote a song "People of the South Wind."
You said Virginia is a bunch of Virgins. Fun fact: The State motto is "Virginia is for lovers". 😆Also, I'm from Michigan and live in L.A.
A lot of the British that named places like towns or states named them with names of places that were familiar to them likely because they needed something familiar in a land that was foreign to them. It probably made it feel more like home to hear these names that they know.
Of course New England (all the North Eastern States on the Atlantic Seaboard) was so-named by the original UK Puritan settlers in Massachusetts (Plymouth.) They sought freedom from the oppressive UK Monarchy which they thought to be tyrannical. In 1776 the US gained it’s independence. We are a land of pioneers and entrepreneurs.
I just paused and tried to write all the state names. Got to 47 before i started having to think very hard. Got to 50 in about 3 minutes. Helps that i was raised in the military and am a military spouse. Moving cross country by car every 3 years means you see a lot of states.
How old are you? Only asking because my gen, I found, was generally taught that state song in elementary. (Xennial/xgen. I'm old. Fight me.) But I've found that it fell out of favor as the years rolled on.
I only got to 45 before I had to look at a map. 😭 I've only been to 16 states.
I’m 49
I got 34 before I had to take a moment and realize I didn't pay enough attention in U.S History and Geography classes Math I can do name all states I can not lol
We had to learn in school, 7th grade. Never forgot them.
Giovanni Verrazzano (pronounced ver-rah-zahn-o) was also the first European to enter New York Harbour and Narragansett Bay (in Rhode Island). He was an Italian explorer though he sailed for France. The bridge spanning the Narrows in New York Harbour is named after him.
Yes, we can name all 50... Obviously, it's a lot, so you have to keep track carefully as you go. It's the kind of thing we learned when we were young, and it's pretty engrained now.
Yes, we purchased Alaska from Russia. They hadn't really settled or developed it much.
It always cracks me up that Washington chose Washington rather than Columbia because they didn't want to be confused with DC... and now that's all we're confused with.
Utah is where all the Mormons are, so... not a lot of getting high. Lots of Mountains though... next door in Colorado they have mountain AND they get high.
LA is the abbreviation for Louisiana. Sometimes you'll see "NOLA" in reference to New Orleans, LA.
It makes sense the very English influence on the names on the East Coast, the French influence in the areas they had colonized, the Spanish influence in the Southwest where they had colonized.
"How many Islands are linked to America?" yeeeaaahhhh... we maybe still have colonies that we don't give representation in our government... not great, is it?
The name Texas has a little more to it than he stated. The Spanish took the native name, and made it their own as "Tejas" (pronounced Ta Hass), and then was converted in to Texas. I was born in Indiana, and lived there until I was almost 12, and then we moved to Texas. Been here ever since (39 years), and I prefer it here. I never liked the Cold. I learned about the origin of both of the states in school while I lived in each state. Also, I am 1/32 Native American, so I've always been fascinated by the history of America. I knew a lot about what was discussed in this video just because I've read a lot about the various Native American tribes, and the regions they occupied. Granted I did learn a few things, and it is always a good day when you learn something new!
One of the origins of Kentucky is an Iroquois word meaning “land of tomorrow”.
I’ve also heard another name means “good/plenty hunting ground”.
Also I believe all the “Grants” are land grants.
I have to say, I've never heard your hometown pronounced the way you pronounce it, honestly. We in America mostly know it from Robin Hood, as you mentioned, and we always end up pronouncing it like Notting-ham, not Nottin-gham, like you do. That was the most interesting part of this video for me. LOL
I loved it when you were reading the land grants that made up the mid to western parts of the U.S. and said, "Wait! Why is my name on all those?!"😅
I'm from boringly named New Hampshire and born in boringly named New Jersey, by the way! 🤣
I live in Minnesota. Minnesota in a native American language means "clear blue water" and boy, do we have a lot of lakes! - and the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. There are 22 lakes in Minneapolis alone! 😀
I concur.
Another Mn native here. In the winter months people jokingly refer to Minnesota as Minne-snowta.
The use of native america names is very common in Mn as well. We have a large number of streets, cities, rivers and lakes with native american names. Occasionally when you talk to someone (typically from the south) they get the pronunciation way off. Thats always a fun sign they're not from around here. Its all in what you're used to! 😊
Pennsylvania (as well as many other places) has a ton of towns and places named after indigenous tribes or their people. It's super interesting and somewhat sad to think about those people and how they were treated during some of the expansion of the country. Most of our dark history comes from slavery (and rightfully so) but I don't think we give enough attention as we should to how we treated the native tribes and people back then. 😕 Changing football team names isn't doing anything.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Europeans killed most of the aboriginal people through accidental biological warfare. I.E., European diseases that the natives had no immunity to. Followed up by genocides against the natives to push them off lands the Europeans wanted, which finished off a good portion of who remained. The job was done by 1900.
The video says that Hawaiʻi is spelled with an apostrophe, but that is incorrect. The character between the two i's in Hawaiʻi is called an ʻokina (ʻ). It is not an apostrophe, but a letter that represents a glottal stop. So Hawaiʻi is actually pronounced more like "Hawai (pause) i." Also, the "w" sound in Hawaiʻi is not pronounced like the English "w" - native Hawaiian speakers say it's more like a "v" or a mixture between the "v" and "w" sounds depending on the context.
I learned something new today. ‘okina vs apostrophe. Thanks for posting!
Utah actually means people of the mountains. It could be shortened to meaning high. As in elevation height.
The story of California’s name is my favorite he didn’t go over the whole story, but essentially when that book was written. It caused a stir amongst Spanish explorers, and a big boom in colonization in America by the Spanish explorers, that originally went out and found California We’re technically looking for the island of California described in the book. In the book, the island is full of topless women. who only bring men to the island to breed with, and then send them back to the main island idk why they thought the story was real, but they were convinced they could actually find California and when they were going up to Baja peninsula, they were almost certain they had found it until of course they found that it was a peninsula and not an island but there was one guy who was like no this is still California Island I don’t care what y’all say and he became obsessed with it
In Mississippi, a lot of our towns and counties are Native names. Tunica, Tupelo, Itawamba, Pontotoc for example.
LA also stands for the Florida panhandle, sometimes called "Lower Alabama!" 🤣 👍
There are so many cities in America that have English & Scottish origins. Many English , Scottish & Scots Irish people first arrived in America in Virginia & North Carolina . You will find a lot of people with that ancestry in America . The original 13 Colonies have so much history concerning that !
Yeah, I can name them all, and in alphabetical order, along with at least every kid I went to elementary school with. There's a song, I couldn't forget it if I tried 🤣
"fifty nifty united states from the 13 original colonies..." Yep I'm in my 50s and can still sing the song.
Wait, there's a song? I'm in my early 40s, and one of my early academic embarrassments was failing to successfully memorize all 50 states plus their capitols. A song to help with even half of it would have been nice. XD
You're getting your city and state names confused...LA is the abbreviation for Louisiana but L. A. is the nickname of Los Angeles in California.
The Spanish name origins are not because of Mexico but because Spain was also a big explorer of the US.
I'm in Virginia so already knew it's name origin. Being the 1st colony and named after The Virgin Queen - Elizabeth I, there's a lot of history to be taught/learned.
I believe the term grant is relating to the origins of the funds that allowed the journey and exploration.
I am from California (me and 8 million other people). Everything is Spanish here. San something, El something, etc. Another video that is interesting is how the states got their shapes. Another little tidbit - we used to get Admission Day off which was right around Labor Day. So we used to get a state holiday of September 9th off.
Lew's pronunciation of the Indian word for Wyoming is something dirty in Italian 😂
😂😂😂😂
I'm in Oregon. Lewis, probably fewer people get high in Utah than any other state.😂 Most of the people are Mormons (a long story), a religious sect that forbids partaking in caffeine, alcohol or any drugs. There are many Spanish names because a large portion of the western US belonged to Mexico until around 1846 (?). Narrator glitch: Sioux is pronounced like Sue, not See-oo. It's very entertaining to watch you reacting to these other videos!
I grew up in Virginia and knew it was named for an English queen. I've lived most of my life in North Carolina and assumed it was named for a Queen Caroline. The Lost Colony of North Carolina is interesting, if you want to check into it.
i believe when they're talking about the land being Virgin, they mean it has not been industrialized. The land is virtually untouched - stepping off the boat to land that shows no signs of people building on the land, no trains or steam factories etc.
Other than Virginia being named after the Virgin Queen, all other territories were named after the Virgin Mary. They were settled by the Spanish and very Catholic. In fact, Maryland was named, as they mentioned as an alternative, after the Virgin Mary. It was a Catholic state until the Gov was forcibly removed because England hated Catholics.
I'm from California and I did not know it's origin 😅. I had a wooden puzzle for my kids with States and capitols. I think it was great fun for me and they learned something 😂😅
Nebraskan here. I knew the state's name origin but very cool to see them all!
I didn’t see any comments covering it- so, Minnesota. My favorite version of the name’s meaning I’ve heard is “Sky-tinted water” thus it is the land of sky-tinted water. Land of 10,000 lakes” can be found on car license plates. We have so many lakes, streams, ponds, water is everywhere in Minnesota. Whenever I fly to Minnesota, I know when I’m over the state because it looks like hundreds of tiny puddles reflecting the sky. (Though I’m sure Wisconsin looks similar from the air. I’m usually flying over the Dakotas or Iowa where there aren’t quite as many lakes.)
So when I fly and see all those puddles (lakes) reflecting the clouds in the sky, I know I’m back home.
Ah!
Going for a Robin Hood and/or Sheriff of Nottingham look?
🙂
I could recite all 50 states when I was 6 years old, but I am a geography freak.
I was born and raised in Utah. Our name comes from the UTE tribes of Native Americans. Although the high thing makes sense if you take into account how we are part of the Rocky Mountains. We have a huge portion of our state taken up my mountainous land.
Maybe you heard Gitchi-gami for Lake Superior.
If he listened to Gordon Lightfoots song “The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald” it has Gitchi-gami twice…
Hey I know all these! My kids had to fill in the states and capitals on a quiz 2 days ago. I been studying g for a week lol
I'm in PENNS WOODS.
New Mexico and Colorado are my places
My husband's family is a very old Spanish land grant family. They were sheep ranchers and were there for 200+ years. They eventually gave up their land in New Mexico, and moved to Arizona territory and Needles, CA. It was my good fortune that they relocated because I have my husband and wonderful family.
Both theories of Utah’s naming are to do with “higher up” (as in elevation) or the Ute tribe meaning “people of the mountains”.
Look up "Fifty Nifty United States", it's a song from elementary school since the 1960s. You'll learn all 50 States alphabetically 😊
Reason “new” was put in front of so many names is because the settlers loved the people of the land they came from, just not the politics, so they wanted to recreate it but under a free constitution. Pays homage to their ancestors but making it new from there on.
Missed home, but many were also driven out for religious differences as well as politics.
Native New Yorker here! NY was a Dutch colony first - In fact, Manhattan (riginated from the Lenape's language, Munsee, manaháhtaan - where manah- means "gather", -aht- means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems) was originally "New Amsterdam" and the last Dutch governor was named Peter Stuyvesant. We still have Dutch colonialism in various parts of the state - old buildings and streets names after Stuyvesant among other notable historical figures.
And all the sports teams have "Dutch orange" in their colors! Lol
I’m from Oklahoma. We did not become a state until 1907. Until then we were Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. This territory had been promised to Tribes but treaties were broken and the area was opened to settlers from anywhere. We, particularly in the eastern part of the state, live on tribal lands.
I am from South Carolina. It was named after Charles I, like it says in the video, and also, one of the most prominent port cities during on the East coast during the Revolutionary war was in SC and called Charlestown. It later became known as the 'cradle of the confederacy' during the civil war. But now is a beautiful city and a wonderful place to visit.
I can name all 50 states in 1 sitting. Not because of school tho. In school geography was such a short subject in 7th grade world history. I dropped out after repeating 9th grade a couple times so they may have delved back into geography later down the line but I can't know for sure.
I can name them all now cuz I go through periods of time where I'm semi obsessed with certain areas of study/knowledge. My most recent 1 has been geography. I first memorized all 50 states cuz as an american, I should know this even tho most americans don't. Then I moved onto countries, which I can name all 197 of. I'm still neglecting the countries that rn't recognized generally tho. Like the Cayman islands. Taiwan and palestine count in most study guides n such but island nations outside of oceania don't tend to. Anyway, i'm working on memorizing all the U.S. territories, U.S. state capitals, and country capitals as well. I have this super spreadsheet on all the countries that links to a bunch of other spreadsheets that i've been working on dedicated to all countries 1 by 1. Sounds confusing n is even more work than it sounds. I learned the names of all the canadian provinces as my first out of U.S. country divisions memorization. But I can't name them all off the top of my head just yet.
I do this too. Right now its sharks and flamenco. I made it through school but only because i saw the logic paths. Otherwise i hated school bc it was boring and they never were able to actually teach cool things. I used the animaniacs video to learn the states and capitals 🤣. Wakko did a great job. I'm still working on the countries.
I won many bar bets and many drinks naming all the states....and also all of the presidents.
I can do it because I'm a big navy history buff and the US named all its battleships after states.
Ya!!!! Idaho WILL be the origin of the next US rebellion. No joke!. I live close - in south eastern BC - potato’s are the only thing that outnumber conspiracy theories, there.
Lol
@ "Ilenweewaa" for Illinois... We do have loads of place names that ARE unchanged and still go by the same original native names as well as rivers, lakes, mountains, etc.
I get that the original video creator is from Portugal, so he makes a lot of weird mistakes and personal opinions in his videos, but it would have totally made more sense to start the map from east to west because it would show the chronological order of names...
In elementary school we learned a song called "Fifty Nifty United States" and it lists the states in alphabetical order. So yes, I can easily rattle them off, and quickly, as I'm sure loads of people can. Also all the capitals, but that's just cuz I'm a geography nerd.
We learned that, too! Putting anything to song makes it easier to remember. I also know the books of the Bible in order, the 12 disciples, and the alphabet backwards - because they were taught to me by song. I still remember them, and I'm on the downside of middle age. Here's a video of the entire song (but you can skip to when they start listing the states in order) ua-cam.com/video/WhDrGnjacvA/v-deo.html
I can't name all of the capitals but I can name all of the states. Although not in alphabetical order.
I must have been sick that day
I’m from Seattle, Washington. I’m learning a lot about the U.S. from your videos!!😊
@@revgurley Oh my goodness, same here with the books of the Bible and 12 disciples, and the backwards alphabet, which I think was sung by Big Bird on Sesame Street? When I took an Old Testament course in college and we had to list the books of the OT, I was like "no problem, I got this!" No long memorization study required.
I'm in Pennsylvania, which we're always told translates to Penn's Woods. But it's rather amusing that William Penn Jr. would name this colony after his father even over his father's explicit objections. 🙂
P.S.: L.A. is Los Angeles; LA is the postal abbreviation of Louisiana.
Great video, and Lewis’s responses just add to it.
I’m 100% sure I couldn’t name all the states in 1 sitting.. Maybe because I was born and raised southern Louisiana.
Don’t you mean LA? 😂😂😂
I can name all of them in one sitting…thanks to that song I learned in 5th grade called Fifty Nifty. Lol
Utah has mountains which may have led to the using the word “high”
I am from California but went to college in Idaho. Idaho has some of the nicest and hard working people I have ever met. They are so genuine.
Yeah, I'm from Georgia. When you did the dialects/accents of America, I was disappointed they didn't come to us. In places like Savannah, we have lots of classic southern accents, like what you think of when you think southern, and then in Atlanta, we leave out letters and use lots of slang. Normally, you'll hear "'lanna" rather than "atlanta", or "a'lanta" or "a'lanna".
Every state has a two letter postal abbreviation. LA is Louisiana.
Modern America is a conglomeration of territories that were colonized by Europeans, stolen from the indigenous peoples, won in a war, or purchased from a previous European owner.
Alaska for example was known as Seward's Folly, named for the Secretary of State that made the deal with the Russian Empire after their (previous) Crimean War which they lost and needed money in 1867 just after the American Civil War and sure, let's get more territory Seward thought. Pretty good deal for the U.S. as a gold rush started in 1896 and the Black Gold rush continues today. Seward paid $7.2 million.
I am an Oregon native; I grew up in the NE part, my family were early pioneers to the area. I also lived next in Washington for 12 years, before moving back to Oregon and ending up not far from where I started.
In Massachusetts we have a lot of cities and street names that are a mixture of Native words and places in England.
At the 16:32 mark where you were puzzled about LA being next to Texas, that is the state of Louisiana. The abbreviations for that state is LA just like the abbreviations for California is CA. Each state has a 2 letter abbreviation. We don't fully spell our states, we only use the 2 letter abbreviation when giving an address or for the post.
Example: I used to live at 428 Casad St, Covina, CA 91723 No one ever spells out the state.
New York - NY, Georgia - GA, Texas - TX, Massachusetts - MA, Florida - FL, New Jersey - NJ, Michigan - MI and so on. I hope this helps.
I’m from Oklahoma. A very beautiful and diverse state. We are the weed capital of the world but also a strong conservative state. We are very friendly people and there is a rich Native American culture here.
I am also from Oklahoma. It is a very beautiful state. There are a lot of interesting things to learn, and see here. For the most part, it is a very friendly state. You are welcome to come visit anytime! P.s. lots of good food here also! Have a blessed day.
Birmingham, Alabama is my hometown. We also have an "LA", Lower Alabama. This refers to roughly anything south of Montgomery. Usually used in conjunction with the sentiment of heading south to the beach. Example- "What are you doing this weekend?" "I'm headed for LA."
Back in the day, when Schmidt brewery was in Minnesota, they advertised it as being from "the land of sky blue water."
Ha! I forgot it was in a Schmidt Beer ad. Thought it was a Land O’Lakes butter ad lol
I'm from Utah. The Rocky Mountains run through the state. Utah is thought to be from the Apache word "yuttahih" meaning "one/those that is/are higher up".
Great video! There's a tv show called "How the States Got Thier Shapes". It's pretty interesting as well.
Ever read/see Death Note? That has folkloric "shinigami" in it, maybe that's the word you were thinking of during the Michigan part
15:10 I was born and raised in Southern California, but chose Idaho as my adoptive home state five years ago.
I was blown away when I first found out that "Idaho" was basically a made-up name that some guy came up with, thinking he was using a Native American word 🤦🏼♀️
However Idaho is now most (and proudly) known as "The Potato State".
If you look up information on Idaho, you'll be able to see just how proud Idahoans are; every New Year's Eve celebration includes 'The Potato Drop' which is Idaho's version of the Times Square Ball Drop famously held in New York City each year.
Idaho also has a potato museum, potato festivals, and sports teams with names like, "The Idaho Spuds"; referring to the tuber's nickname.
Idaho is a beautiful place with nearly unlimited outdoor activity possibilities, including hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, and more. It's also the home of Arco, Idaho; the first city to be powered by nuclear energy, where there's a fascinating museum too, not to mention the beautiful National Park nearby; Craters of the Moon, which is one of my "must visit" places here, along with Yellowstone National Park, which spans from Idaho to the West, to Wyoming, and Montana to the North.
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“I’ll do it for ya!” “What should we call this land?” You are too funny bro 😂
A lot of native names for both places and tribes are actually from _other_ tribes and aren't always flattering. For example, "Cherokee" is a Creek word meaning "People who can't speak correctly" (the Cherokees do have a word Tsa-la-gi meaning "Cherokee" but they prefer to call themselves _Ani-ki-tuwah_ meaning "the people of Kituwah (mound)"). The Iroquois call themselves the _Haudenosaunee_ which means "people of the longhouse," whereas the word _Iroquois_ comes from an Algonquin word meaning "real snakes." So, if Idaho is an Apache word for "the enemy," it's because the White explorers had an Apache guide who told them that this land was called that because the tribes in it were enemies of the Apache.
We're taught from elementary school about the State we live in & then in middle school we learn about the other States in American History class, which is mainly about the history of America & there's other History classes that goes into our Constitution, federalist papers, our founding Fathers & much more. Also in elementary school we learn each State as well as the Capital of each State!
It's funny. I was just in the midst of looking into my home state when this was published.
I grew up in Kentucky and we used to sing a song that had all 50 states in it, in the mornings at school. it’s engrained into my brain and I still can recall them all bc of some song 😭🫶
Lewis, ever hear the song Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot? He calls lake Superior Gitchie-Goomie... Which was what the natives called it. Im guessing that's where you're relating to Michigan's name of "Meshi-Gami"
I grew up in Oregon, live in Arizona. I can name all 50 states, but it takes me a little bit when I get to the North east.
Pennsylvania is named after William Penn, who founded our state. He was a Quaker a religion based on love and friendshop with everyone. He made friends with the Native Americans who lived here. There is a Famous painting on one of the buildings in Reading, Pa, it shows William Penn shaking hands woth the leader of the Native Americans and a scroll to represent the treaty they signed. It was one of the few treaties that was never broken, not even to this day.
Yes. We all learned all 50 states and took a test on it in elementary school at some point after that we learned the capital of each state as well. Which is the political Mecca of each state. However, you'd probably be hard-pressed to find any of us out of college at least that can remember them all in one sitting. We know them all, but it's easy to forget one here and there. As far as the capitals of each state, forget it. I'm 46 and I haven't a clue. But now you make me want to test my husband and I to see if we can remember all of them. I'll reply to this message and let you know if we could remember. Also, I really love your channel and so does my husband. You're so excited about our country and honestly I think we take it for granted over here. It really is such an amazing place to be and I hope you do get to come here. We're going to want to hear all about it when you come.
I actually learned to recite all the states and knew each capital when there were only 48. I have a beautiful state quilt that my mother made that held all of the 48 states. When we became 50 states of America, it threw my rhythm off, and I did not add them to my recital. I can still say them at a very fast pace, but only the 48. Alas!
Exploring the history of the British Isles is fascinating to me, especially the tales hidden within the names of its cities and towns.
For instance, Cirencester is now a small town but it used to be an extremely important Roman outpost. I visited it once and learned from locals that the "cester" or "chester" parts of place names date back to Roman times and signify areas of strategic importance.
I've also started to notice parts like "ham," "ton," and "combe" in other names. The history of England is layered and complex, and I try and learn about it as much as possible.
I'm originally from Idaho, a state with a unique character. If our name actually means "enemy," which I hope it does and is pretty funny. I've heard tons of theories on where the name came from but pretty sure no one really knows for sure. We're patriotic but despise politicians and stupid political gamesmanship. We vote Republican, but often it's about picking between two total shit options. We're sort of "Libertarian". Live and let live, but you hurt someone or mess with our calm, safe state, you're ass will go to jail. There is no "I had a hard childhood" defense that many places seem to love to use a crutch.
Idaho is quite safe, with endless natural beauty and supportive of entrepreneurship. We value peace as much as the right to bear arms and view that the two concepts are cooperative and complimentary rather than at odds. Home invasions are so entirely rare because chances are you'll end up starting down a barrel. The rules here are simple - act with respect or face the consequences. So, come enjoy Idaho's strong economy, stunning landscapes, and laid-back lifestyle. Just keep in mind, we're pretty independent and don't like being bossed around.
Tennessees origin meaning "The Meeting Place" would make sense. Middle Tennessee dips down into a good size valley. In that valley, Nashville, is the cumberland river. Story goes that all living beings, human and animal, would meet at the river in the valley for water.
Lewis, I live in and am a Native Son of California; but I lived in the State of Washington for several years, hence have a knowledge of the history of the Northwest (Oregon, Washington, and Idaho). The Western part of Montana has the Rockie Mountains through it, where the Capifal, Helena, is located, and where the naming probably took place!
I was raised in KY, and read once that the name came from the native "kintuk", which meant "dark and bloody ground". Now living in Georgia for the past 20 years.
I enjoy for the most part your comments as you go. You truly seem to have interest in what you are watching. Asking for certain comments on subjects is probably great for your interests of the subject matter.
LA is the two letter shortened version of the name Louisiana. New York is NY, Illinois is IL, Utah is UT etc. :)
I've lived in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, California, Texas and Oregon. I now live in Oregon, have for several decades, and I knew most, but not all of these origin stories of names of states. In another of your videos, I noticed that during the pandemic, Oregonians were Googling "library cards" while most of the rest of the country was searching alcoholic drinks or how to delete Facebook. 😂
I get you being excited about seeing your surname in America. Evidently the family name emigrated to America and must have been quite an influential family. I see my surname, though spelled very differently,in the town called Ruddervoorde (Rutherford)in Oostkamp, Belgium. And later learned that my ancestors immigrated from Belgium to Scotland in 1100 ad, and then migrated from there all over the world. My 1st American ancestor, John, migrated to America from England in 1621 ad on a ship named Warwick. 😅
I honestly didn't know the orgins of all of our states. In the northeast yes, but not everywhere. So interesting! I grew in the NY -near NYC- and moved to North Carolina when UmI was about 42. The climate in NC is gorgeous, I'm close to the beaches & the Cape Fear river. So, it's a huge difference from shoving now
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Yes, I know all the states and their capitals. It was drilled into me in school and I now it lives rent free in my head.
Thanks for this. It's super crazy I had no idea.
Arizona here! Grew up in a little area know as "Top of the World" fun history there for sure!
U had me rolling on the LA rant, The US states many years ago had three letter short, the two letter system replaced it. For example AR, for Arkansas. Which is my home state. Of topic but we have a wide range of food options if you ever do a US food tour be sure to take a trip into Arkansas.. You should try cheese dip, we actually have a massive cheese dip contest each year. Cheese dip was started here.. Cheers and just wanted to say I enjoy your channel.. You should find out your location history and do a walk about maybe and drop some knowledge an facts on us..