Concerning the pronunciation of Durham, there is an American town named Durham as well--it's home to Duke University--and most Americans know how to pronounce it properly. The guy making this video has a slight (non-American) accent and I suspect his first language wasn't English. Most Americans also know how to pronounce Sioux = "Sue", not See-you.
I don’t know what that guys talking about. In the 2nd grade we had to recite all the states in alphabetical order along with each states capital and we did it all from memory. Maybe that was when teachers actually taught.
My grandpaps favorite little joke to tell all us grandkids goes: " What does Della wear "? " A new jersey " drum roll. Thank you. Thank you. Thats for you Daz
Alyeska is rarely used here to refer to the state of Alaska, but many local business use it in their name a lot like my old flight school "Alyeska Flight School".
This past winter Nevada was definitely snow covered. The Sierra Nevada range had the second highest snowfall ever recorded. The foothills had snow from New Years 'till mid to late March.
As a Kansan let me say the state and territory of Kansas were named after a native word, Kanza. The Kansas River was called the Kanza river by the natives, meaning swift river.
@@allenhill1223 I’m from right around the Kanza tribes realm. Right at the mouth of the Kansas river dumping into the missouri. I did some surface level digging into the tribe. It’s quite tragic how they were treated and exploited. Went from millions of acres in Kansas to getting just 40 acres per tribe member. And in Oklahoma at that. I hope one day the Kanza (Kaw) can be given back some of their lands in Kansas, though I doubt it since they lived in the most built up part of Kansas.
the Sierra Nevada are indeed snow covered California hosted the winter Olympics in 1960 and some of the best skiing in the U.S. is in the Sierra Nevada
There is also a Sierra Nevada in Spain, in the southern province of Granada. Even thought it is in the south, which generally has a warmer climate than the rest of Spain, the mountains there are also snow covered. There is a ski resort there, which is the most southerly ski resort in europe. It also has the tallest mountain in continental Spain.
Re the bginning of the US video: any 4th grade US school kid can list all 50 states and their capitals. At least back when I was a kid, that was the case. We had to memorize them all.
Texas has flirted with independence a couple times, and there's probably always at least a few people looking toward it at all times, but the federal government basically always just says, "No, Texas, you can't secede," and Texas is like, "Alright... _But next time..."_
I not only know all 50 states ... I know it in Alphabetical order thanks to Grammar School and "Fifty Nifty United States" in music class. 🎶Fifty nifty United States from 13 original colonies! Scout em, shout em, tell all about em, one by one till we've given a say to every state in the USA! ALABAMA ALASKA ARKANSAS....🎶 That song is fucking seared into my brain with a branding iron... When will it end? I can't be the only person that has had it stuck in their head since school. It's been 19 years since the performance.
@@steven95N I was just mentioning that I hadn’t heard of either. It’s interesting to note something so prevalent in some areas is non existent or not prevalent in others. Or maybe it’s the timing. That’s why I mentioned the year as did previous commenter. I was actually going to look up the song to see if it’s something I would send my granddaughter to learn. I wasn’t attacking you fyi. I’m sorry if it sounded that way.
We still call New York, as New Amsterdam too. Most of the neighborhoods, town, buildings are named after dutch settlers. Disney named one their own broadway theater New Amsterdam.
No one said the word "Texas" had anything to do with "New Philippines". The latter is apparently what the Spanish called it BEFORE the terms Tejas and then Texas replaced it, just as New York was previously New Amsterdam and, I think, something else before that.
@@BTinSF I believe King Charles ll cleared out the Dutch ,gave the territory now known as New York to the Duke of York . New York city sounds much better than New Amsterdam
California's name is also theorized to come from the Spanish "calor" meaning "hot" and "fornia" (from "horno") meaning "oven." So the early explorers might have been saying it was "hot as an oven" there!
There was the possibility of Oklahoma being two states. The western part of the territory would still have been Oklahoma, the eastern part of the territory would have been named Sequoyah.
Nashville Tennessee has an area known by the locals as "Flatrock" due to a very large flat rock that held meeting between the various indian tribes in the area to settle disputes. Throughout time the flat rock was broken up in the name of progress.
I just love that Brits are reclaiming their, not insignificant, part played in our beautiful country. And oh, by the way, we absolutely love all our native nations.
Well, if you read about the Lewis and Clark expedition, they stayed with the Ojibwa people. When they asked who they would encounter as the expedition headed West, they said the Sioux, which in their language translates as snake. The Lakota Dakota nations are who they eventually encountered. In the Lakota language, there is no "D" pronunciation, and in the Dakota language, there is no "L" pronunciation. Cheers!
yeah, i was thinking similar or maybe even certain eastern european countries like hungary or romania that would have a similar phonetic pronunciation. his spanish pronunciation was spot on.
There was no INDICATION that he had a Latin spin on the words. Oh yes, he could enunicate them without bastardizing them but that doesn't mean he is from Spain or Portugal. NO ONE KNOWS THE NATIVE AMERICANS Names and languages very well. If so, we need to get them here to do it better.
@Sue Prator there was an indication that he "had a Latin spin" on his pronunciation... his very obvious accent. People who can speak and comprehend romance languages can hear it fairly plainly. It's just a matter of deciphering exactly where. 😊
@@sueprator9314 It’s true we don’t know the exact way past Native Americans say it, however he might not say it the same way Americans would and hell I’m from the south I probably wouldn’t say it the same as people from the north would. It’s just accents.
Mark 23:48. Hahaha! The, CC, thought that he said, "gay", rather than, "Gaia"! 😁 Quote: Quite simply, Gaia is life. She is all, the very soul of the earth. She is a goddess who, by all accounts, inhabits the planet, offering life and nourishment to all her children. In the ancient civilizations, she was revered as mother, nurturer and giver of life. She goes by many names, but in an effort to better connect and understand this energy, let’s explore the myriad of forms in which she appears on Earth. End Quote!
The person narrating the American and First Nations place names is obviously not American. We have heard these tribes and name origins all our lives. And while even in the US there's regional mispronounciation of things (for example, the Appalachias. In the north, they say ah-pa-LAY-SHE-ah. But the actual name of the region is the ah-pa-LAH-chaz) a lot of the names are just completely off. The Allegheny River in the Ohio bit, for example. Not a-LEG-inny but al-leh-GAIN-ie. Best not even try and say "Monongahela", the third river in the region that unites with the Allegheny and creates the Ohio River, at the Point of Confluence where three rivers meet in Pittsburgh. The video narrator tries. But they're not American enough for their subject matter to render even close to actual sounds. As for me, I was born and raised around Poughkeepsie, New York, which was named by the local Wappingers tribe "Uppuqui-ipis-ing", meaning "Reed Covered Lodge by the little spring". Uppu sound to Pough, qui-ipis to 'keeps' and ing to 'ie' and you end up with Poughkeepsie, which is the bookend to Alberqueue New Mexico for the two oddest place names in America which pop culture won't let fade to obscurity for some reason.
Never heard that definition of Kentucky's name. Had always heard it was a native american term that meant Dark and bloody ground, and pronounced more like Ken-Tuh-Keh.
William Penn obtained the land that would become Pennsylvania from King Charles II. The King had borrowed money from Sir William Penn, his father. When Penn's father died the loan had not been repaid. So he asked the King if instead of money he would give him a large portion of his land the New World.
Hmmm and here i thought Utah was named at least somewhat after some of the Indians who lived here. The Ute's. BTW. I lived here in Utah my whole 48 years life. There are 5 major Indian tribes in Utah. Including Ute's.
The purpose of the two words that could have originated the name Minnesota were actually not so much about the water but whether a mist/fog hung over the water. One word if it did and the other if it didn't. If the fog/mist hung over it then to travel on the water would mean your vision would be clouded because of it.
This was a really fun and informative video! With Maine, I always heard the Provence of Maine in France was the most popular theory. A lot of strange place names develop everywhere, but I never bought into the second theory much. The Gorges connection is really interesting. A lot of the narrator’s pronunciation was heinous on some basics though. What’s that accent?
I can say that the pronunciation of Sioux is wrong 😂 try it like Sue. My grandmother (a Lakota woman) was from Standing Rock reservation. Dakota/Lakota/Nakota all mean roughly “the friendly people” Sioux is not a word from the same 7 allied tribes it means “enemy or snake in the grass” and if not obvious it’s from a rival native tribe. But settlers used it to describe our tribes and we’re now known as the Sioux Nation. Even though Sioux is not our word 😅 well we’ve kind of embraced it now lmao but I’d still not call someone that unless you know they are okay with it. Older generations may still be offended. I know the name of my UA-cam does have Sioux empire in it because the region that I live is nicknamed that, fyi it’s not calling someone that to their face.
Don't sweat the mispronunciation of Durham. This guy is mispronouncing alot of these places (example Allegheny River--is not pronounced "a-LEGinny" but rather correctly as ALaGANEY. Sheesh.
@@donaldstewart8342 yes at the end, but he mispronounced names before that, Ojibwe, Siux, Durham... He sounds like somebody with book knowledge not cultural
He missed some points. The land of Kentucky was called Kan-tuck by the natives. Carolinas come from Latin Carolus meaning Charles. Texas probably came from Spanish tejas meaing roof tile, reference to the numerous tiled buildings of the native Pueblos when it was "discovered".
New York was a Dutch colony New Netherland with New Amsterdam (now New York City) as its capital but sold it to the British and decided to keep Suriname, Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and other Caribbean islands instead. The Dutch were busy in Africa, India and Southeast Asia which Indonesia was a Dutch colony for hundreds of years and the Cape Colony is a now what we know as South Africa today. Interesting.
Something many Americans - apparently including the former president - don't realize is that native inhabitants of the US Territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and American Samoa are all natural-born citizens of the United States. When Puerto Rico was devastated by a hurricane and Trump was criticized for handling the situation poorly, he said essentially that people should instead blame "the President of Puerto Rico." And we were like .. dude, YOU'RE the President of Puerto Rico!
“Durham” is one of those names that we have for cities in America too, but we Americans will probably mangle when pronouncing if we’ve never learned about or been to a Durham otherwise. Like Worcester. It’s funny.
Fun fact about New Hampshire; not only is it named after an English place, we have Manchester as our largest city, and Portsmouth as our naval base. Both named for English places. Portsmouth is fun since it straddles the river with Maine so we have friendly bickering about what state it's really in. (Doesn't really matter, it's federal land)
😂 🙄 Oh man you guys can’t let that go! Repeatedly affirmed in court it is geographically and politically located in Kittery in the State of Maine. But it benefits both of us economically and helps support the country. So you guys can have facility naming rights and we’ll just take more of the tax revenue because, well, we’re Maine. 🤑🙃
@@indowneastmaine No we won't! 😂😂 😂 Our favorite battle with Maine! (Nobody outside our states understands how long this friendly battle has been going on. Good bar room talk.)
1K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍. You're welcome! I thank you too, for the informative fun, digital video recording! 🎬✌️🖖🙏🤓🤠😎 Notes: Hmm. If, Puerto Rico, becomes one of our, States, and not another's, like say, Mexico's, the United States Virgin Islands, become a part of it! Thus avoiding the phrase, "There she is! Miss Virgin!", at beauty pageants! 😁. (It's bad enough with both, "Miss Virginia" and "Miss West Virginia", when you're in high school!) The, District of Columbia? For decades it was presumed that it would, "New Columbia", just to keep it simple and distinguish it from the country in, South America, and from the city, Columbus, Ohio. But nooooooo! The last time that I wrote about that, some rude, functional illiterate, replied with something that indicated that just because he didn't know of that, then I must be lying! He said it would be a different name that would keep the, initials, but not what they mean. Some name movement that was news to me. But I asked, "Google", about it anyway, before blocking him. There is something about not using, "Columbia", anymore because of the bad reputation of the explorer. Okay, that's fine by me! I was thinking of the female symbol, "Lady Columbia", currently in use by a, movie studio system. She's the alternative to using, "Uncle Sam". We were almost the nation, "The United States of Columbia", but that option lost the vote and the better option won! 🇺🇸
And this also explains why our english language is so complicated. We randomly kept words and old spellings of some words and completely dropped others, from a mishmash of different languages. Zero consistency. Also, i find it sad we kept some English holiday traditions but not others. I may watch too much Agatha Christie...lol
How coincidental is it that three different people, all named Jarvis, discovered an island? Jarvis must've been a very popular name at that time. Not sure if anyone is named Jarvis today, although there certainly must be some out there.
Another fun Texan fact, after the civil war Texas was given the right to split itself into five unique states, which would help Texas gain a lot of power in the National congress.
Clearly the presenter never attended an American elementary school. We learned all 50 states and the capitols by 4th grade. Hell we had tests on it LOL. They honestly were too lazy to hire an American to do this?.....oh hell, even a Canadian for Gods sake would have worked LOL
Way back in the '70s, we had to recite the fifty states and capitals before we left 4th grade. The sad thing is, my father only graduated 8th grade before he had to leave school to work to help his family. I was fortunate enough to attend university (I paid for it, but my parents provided room and board), and my dad could help me with college algebra. What happened to our standards in this country?
@@disoriented1 I'm assuming the presenters is talking about the kids today....can't or don't know the 50 states, not when we were in school. I can sure see that, I mean the way they teach these days is kinda pathetic so yea, I wouldn't be surprised.
I’m from Texas, and I can tell you that we don’t have the right to become our own country. We gave up that right during Annexation in the 1840’s, but all the fools who want a “Texit” clearly skipped over that part. Also, New Orleans was the original “Sin City”, way before Las Vegas. French aristocrats would get tired of the Bourbon Kings getting in their business, so they ran off to Louisiana and got WILD. Drinking, gambling and prostitution was all over the place, and if anyone snitched on them it would take weeks for the news to get to Versailles anyways.
There is a movement in eastern Oregon to join Idaho. There is also a parallel movement to carve out a new State called Jefferson that would take parts of northern California eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. Its all based on rural vs city population and government control.
The California thing will never happen. Democrats need the Electoral votes and the House seats too badly. That's why they're pushing for DC to become a state.
@@sueprator9314 If you're paying attention to to current events, Greater Idaho may happen. Both states actually would benefit from OR getting smaller, and ID getting bigger.
Mark 12:15. Hold it! The more formal translation is, "Home of the Red Man"! Hmm. 🤔 But judging by the way he talks, it would seem similar to how the, Catholic Church, insists that, "Anno Domini", means "in the year of the Lord", (probably because of the simpler, "BC", meaning, "Before Christ") because they use it that way! But if you're just wanting to speak, Latin, for the sake of it, you ignore the religious politics to use them as, "after" and "domain", respectively. (Or, "dominion".) But anyway.... Quote: The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw language phrase okla, 'people', and humma, translated as 'red'. Choctaw Nation Chief Allen Wright suggested the name in 1866 during treaty negotiations with the federal government on the use of Indian Territory. He envisioned an all-American Indian state controlled by the United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Oklahoma later became the de facto name for Oklahoma Territory, and it was officially approved in 1890, two years after that area was opened to white settlers. In the Chickasaw language, the state is known as Oklahomma', in Arapaho as bo'oobe' (literally meaning 'red earth'), Pawnee: Uukuhuúwa, and Cayuga: Gahnawiyoˀgeh. End Quote! PS: Though like it is with, Indianapolis, Indiana, the people of, India, have nothing to do with it! Going along with the big mistake of, Christopher Columbus's, just because of the frailty of the, stupid ego pride of Europeans, is something that we're trying to belatedly correct! Though some now want to replace, "Native", with "First", probably to placate people that whine about being born in the, USA. 🤔😁
Just a reminder: We fought the bloodiest war in American history when Texas and 10 other states seceded from the Union. We're not likely (I hope) to repeat that mistake. Texas isn't the only state where a few crazy people openly fantasize about secession, and this happens in non-Southern states as well.
@@Hotwheelz57 I'm talking about people who want to actually do it again, not just wish it was so. Also, anyone who thinks secession is a good idea for any state might want to consider how unimaginably expensive it would be--creating your own military, the loss of federal tax dollars (for those states that receive more than they pay), expanding state government to replace federal services (Social Security, Medicare), massive economic disruption, etc. (Ironically, the Confederate national government was frequently criticized for its necessary wartime impositions on the states.) As for Texas, it's already one of the least "messed with" places on Earth. It functions in some ways like its own country, but never or rarely refuses federal money or assistance.
He got Utah wrong. According to the Utah.gov website, Utah got its name from the Ute Native American tribe that were indigenous to the area. Every kid in Utah is taught that. Apache territory was way further south, so I don't know why we would use an Apache word to name it.
Secession was deemed unconstitutional after the civil war, as prior to the emancipation proclamation that’s a big factor in how the optics of the war were being presented. The Union was fighting for union obviously, and the Confederacy for secession due to a myriad of reasons though primarily centered around the issue of slavery and wanting to maintain its legality. When the war ended, slavery was not the only issue that was settled in the war, secession was as well. Due to this, Texas can’t legally secede even if they actually wanted to, not without a conflict with the federal US government. Same with California. No one really flirts with the idea seriously outside very fringe political groups, it’s just not realistic in any real capacity. Texans and Californians always joke about secession due to previously being their own countries, but these countries were primarily founded by US settlers attempting to expand the US, they never really were supposed to stay as independent states. Texas spent pretty much the entirety of its independent period petitioning and lobbying the US for statehood. Statehood as previously mentioned has been deemed to be eternally binding as well, so once you’re in you’re in. Territories have more agency in this manner from my understanding. There have been a few US territories to become independent if i am not mistaken.
hmm. Disappointing that the video did not mention New York’s original naming New Amsterdam and New Netherlands? Weird considering how much detail was put into other research….
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Fun fact: William Penn actually considered naming Pennsylvania New Wales, but the king urged him to name the colony after his father.
Concerning the pronunciation of Durham, there is an American town named Durham as well--it's home to Duke University--and most Americans know how to pronounce it properly. The guy making this video has a slight (non-American) accent and I suspect his first language wasn't English. Most Americans also know how to pronounce Sioux = "Sue", not See-you.
And we know how to pronounce Ojibwe as well.
Also Alconquin
@@dalemoore8582 Several of them were messed up by his accent. I just use Sioux as an example.
If I remember correctly he is from Portugal.
Yes, not a native speaker. He says "duh" rather than "the" throughout the whole video, which was the first noticeable moment.
I don’t know what that guys talking about. In the 2nd grade we had to recite all the states in alphabetical order along with each states capital and we did it all from memory. Maybe that was when teachers actually taught.
Same! In order for us to graduate to the next grade we all had to have an exam in this (I cheated) but I got like 47 memorized lol
That's not teaching, that's memorizing. You let your nostalgia bias show.
Right! I can still recite them all.
@@Hexon66 memorizing is a major part of learning, teaching is when a third party is guiding your learning process.
Me too.
11:19 they were literally explaining the answer to his question when he paused to ask it lol
My grandpaps favorite little joke to tell all us grandkids goes:
" What does Della wear "?
" A new jersey "
drum roll. Thank you. Thank you. Thats for you Daz
That's part of a scout song, not an independent joke.
@@cp368productions2 effing duhhhhh
Yeah his Scout leader (who was a Dad) told him that right? Lol Gotta love Dad jokes!! All Dad's have their own.
Alyeska is rarely used here to refer to the state of Alaska, but many local business use it in their name a lot like my old flight school "Alyeska Flight School".
Minnesota is interpreted as meaning "waters that reflect the sky," not just cloudy water.
This past winter Nevada was definitely snow covered. The Sierra Nevada range had the second highest snowfall ever recorded. The foothills had snow from New Years 'till mid to late March.
As a Kansan let me say the state and territory of Kansas were named after a native word, Kanza. The Kansas River was called the Kanza river by the natives, meaning swift river.
Potowatmi in kansas is my clan. But missouri Minnesota and Illinois I know most name's are indain
And people from Arkansas are called "Arkansans!"
@@allenhill1223 I’m from right around the Kanza tribes realm. Right at the mouth of the Kansas river dumping into the missouri. I did some surface level digging into the tribe. It’s quite tragic how they were treated and exploited. Went from millions of acres in Kansas to getting just 40 acres per tribe member. And in Oklahoma at that. I hope one day the Kanza (Kaw) can be given back some of their lands in Kansas, though I doubt it since they lived in the most built up part of Kansas.
the Sierra Nevada are indeed snow covered California hosted the winter Olympics in 1960 and some of the best skiing in the U.S. is in the Sierra Nevada
There is also a Sierra Nevada in Spain, in the southern province of Granada. Even thought it is in the south, which generally has a warmer climate than the rest of Spain, the mountains there are also snow covered. There is a ski resort there, which is the most southerly ski resort in europe. It also has the tallest mountain in continental Spain.
Re the bginning of the US video: any 4th grade US school kid can list all 50 states and their capitals. At least back when I was a kid, that was the case. We had to memorize them all.
Yeah, nowadays they learn to memorize 50 genders.
I always forget Delaware 🤷
Texas has flirted with independence a couple times, and there's probably always at least a few people looking toward it at all times, but the federal government basically always just says, "No, Texas, you can't secede," and Texas is like, "Alright... _But next time..."_
I not only know all 50 states ... I know it in Alphabetical order thanks to Grammar School and "Fifty Nifty United States" in music class.
🎶Fifty nifty United States from 13 original colonies! Scout em, shout em, tell all about em, one by one till we've given a say to every state in the USA! ALABAMA ALASKA ARKANSAS....🎶
That song is fucking seared into my brain with a branding iron... When will it end? I can't be the only person that has had it stuck in their head since school. It's been 19 years since the performance.
When I was in school, we were not taught that song as we had to remember them by heart and I graduated in 1980
@@marydavis5234 Odd, the song has been in circulation in the school system since at least the 60s
@@steven95N I’ve never heard that song either! Graduated in ‘79.
@@darlanilsen879 um, ok? What am I supposed to do with this information?
@@steven95N I was just mentioning that I hadn’t heard of either. It’s interesting to note something so prevalent in some areas is non existent or not prevalent in others. Or maybe it’s the timing. That’s why I mentioned the year as did previous commenter. I was actually going to look up the song to see if it’s something I would send my granddaughter to learn. I wasn’t attacking you fyi. I’m sorry if it sounded that way.
Sophie's expression when she understood the "Duke of York" joke. 🤭
I remember him as "Randy Andy".
We still call New York, as New Amsterdam too. Most of the neighborhoods, town, buildings are named after dutch settlers. Disney named one their own broadway theater New Amsterdam.
How did he miss how the Rivers got their names? They’ve said it 40x, from the tribes in the area.
In the 5th grade the teacher gave us a blank US map. We had to fill in the state and it's capital. I was about 9 years old.
One of our state slogans is "don't mess with Texas". IT IS NOT NEW PHILIPINES. The origin of Texas is from the Caddo tribe, Tejas.
Yes Sir! is our state actually a state? I think it's a country! Lol #nativetexan
No one said the word "Texas" had anything to do with "New Philippines". The latter is apparently what the Spanish called it BEFORE the terms Tejas and then Texas replaced it, just as New York was previously New Amsterdam and, I think, something else before that.
@@BTinSF
I believe King Charles ll cleared out the Dutch ,gave the territory now known as New York to the Duke of York .
New York city sounds much better than New Amsterdam
California's name is also theorized to come from the Spanish "calor" meaning "hot" and "fornia" (from "horno") meaning "oven." So the early explorers might have been saying it was "hot as an oven" there!
I agreed with the man that said Kentucky was named after what the Native Americans called it Kaintuk.
Utah was almost named Deseret
Did he actually say that Montana is not very mountainous? Ummm...
Bro, it's western border with Idaho is literally the continental devide, how does a geographer not know this??
Actually New York city was originally known as New Amsterdam, as it was a Dutch colony.
There was the possibility of Oklahoma being two states. The western part of the territory would still have been Oklahoma, the eastern part of the territory would have been named Sequoyah.
Nashville Tennessee has an area known by the locals as "Flatrock" due to a very large flat rock that held meeting between the various indian tribes in the area to settle disputes. Throughout time the flat rock was broken up in the name of progress.
I enjoyed this as much for the info as for watching your reaction.
Montana is extremely mountainous
Mark 15:35. Hahaha! According to the, CC, you said, "took one of the asses out"! 😆😅😂🤣
I just love that Brits are reclaiming their, not insignificant, part played in our beautiful country. And oh, by the way, we absolutely love all our native nations.
Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen; hence Virgina
The guy who does the General Knowledge channel is Portuguese.
I had guessed that he learned English as a second language. He did fairly well.
ahhh, this explains his excellent castellano pronunciation.
16:40 Michigan is known as "The Great Lake State" due to its proximity to four of the five Great Lakes (Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie)
Another translation of Michigan, the one I learned, was big water. Although, not terribly different from large lake.
Well, if you read about the Lewis and Clark expedition, they stayed with the Ojibwa people. When they asked who they would encounter as the expedition headed West, they said the Sioux, which in their language translates as snake. The Lakota Dakota nations are who they eventually encountered.
In the Lakota language, there is no "D" pronunciation, and in the Dakota language, there is no "L" pronunciation.
Cheers!
I’m from Texas and Texit is a very small but vocal minority. The vast majority of us want do jot want Texit.
Btw I believe this guy is from Portugal or Spain so some of the Native words he might not pronounce the same way we would here. Love your vids ❤
yeah, i was thinking similar or maybe even certain eastern european countries like hungary or romania that would have a similar phonetic pronunciation. his spanish pronunciation was spot on.
@@PhxVanguard yeah I thought he said he was Portuguese in one of his videos.
There was no INDICATION that he had a Latin spin on the words. Oh yes, he could enunicate them without bastardizing them but that doesn't mean he is from Spain or Portugal. NO ONE KNOWS THE NATIVE AMERICANS Names and languages very well. If so, we need to get them here to do it better.
@Sue Prator there was an indication that he "had a Latin spin" on his pronunciation... his very obvious accent. People who can speak and comprehend romance languages can hear it fairly plainly. It's just a matter of deciphering exactly where. 😊
@@sueprator9314 It’s true we don’t know the exact way past Native Americans say it, however he might not say it the same way Americans would and hell I’m from the south I probably wouldn’t say it the same as people from the north would. It’s just accents.
Mark 23:48. Hahaha! The, CC, thought that he said, "gay", rather than, "Gaia"! 😁
Quote:
Quite simply, Gaia is life. She is all, the very soul of the earth. She is a goddess who, by all accounts, inhabits the planet, offering life and nourishment to all her children. In the ancient civilizations, she was revered as mother, nurturer and giver of life. She goes by many names, but in an effort to better connect and understand this energy, let’s explore the myriad of forms in which she appears on Earth.
End Quote!
Sioux is pronounced like the name Sue, not how this guy pronounced it. Ojibwe is also mispronounced, it's ow-jeeb-way.
oh jih bwe is how it is pronounced
The person narrating the American and First Nations place names is obviously not American. We have heard these tribes and name origins all our lives. And while even in the US there's regional mispronounciation of things (for example, the Appalachias. In the north, they say ah-pa-LAY-SHE-ah. But the actual name of the region is the ah-pa-LAH-chaz) a lot of the names are just completely off. The Allegheny River in the Ohio bit, for example. Not a-LEG-inny but al-leh-GAIN-ie. Best not even try and say "Monongahela", the third river in the region that unites with the Allegheny and creates the Ohio River, at the Point of Confluence where three rivers meet in Pittsburgh.
The video narrator tries. But they're not American enough for their subject matter to render even close to actual sounds.
As for me, I was born and raised around Poughkeepsie, New York, which was named by the local Wappingers tribe "Uppuqui-ipis-ing", meaning "Reed Covered Lodge by the little spring". Uppu sound to Pough, qui-ipis to 'keeps' and ing to 'ie' and you end up with Poughkeepsie, which is the bookend to Alberqueue New Mexico for the two oddest place names in America which pop culture won't let fade to obscurity for some reason.
yeah, but most americans pronounce the indigenous place names wrong too. he pronounced california correctly, montana, la florida, etc. he's good.
Texas literally teaches their students that they're the only state that can legally secede from the Union.
Never heard that definition of Kentucky's name. Had always heard it was a native american term that meant Dark and bloody ground, and pronounced more like Ken-Tuh-Keh.
William Penn obtained the land that would become Pennsylvania from King Charles II.
The King had borrowed money from Sir William Penn, his father. When Penn's father died the loan had not been repaid.
So he asked the King if instead of money he would give him a large portion of his land the New World.
The king offered land instead of money, actually - not the other way around, funnily enough, the king was also the one who named the land
We had a song in school called Fifty Nifty where we all sung the states in alphabetical order.
The rule of the game they played on Friends was that you had to name all 50 states in 6 minutes, which makes it a bit harder.
I would have thought Utah would have been named after the Ute tribes.
Hmmm and here i thought Utah was named at least somewhat after some of the Indians who lived here. The Ute's.
BTW. I lived here in Utah my whole 48 years life. There are 5 major Indian tribes in Utah. Including Ute's.
The purpose of the two words that could have originated the name Minnesota were actually not so much about the water but whether a mist/fog hung over the water. One word if it did and the other if it didn't.
If the fog/mist hung over it then to travel on the water would mean your vision would be clouded because of it.
This video taught me English people like to name things after themselves 😜😉🥰
Uh, really? Which ones? Because yes, some where named after a monarch, most were named after native words.
Montana not that mountainous? News to me...
"aslaska"!
Mark 14:04. Wait! Whoa there! Did he just refer to the, Gulf of Mexico, as being the, Atlantic Ocean, though his map does not indicate that?! 🤔😁
This was a really fun and informative video! With Maine, I always heard the Provence of Maine in France was the most popular theory. A lot of strange place names develop everywhere, but I never bought into the second theory much. The Gorges connection is really interesting. A lot of the narrator’s pronunciation was heinous on some basics though. What’s that accent?
I can say that the pronunciation of Sioux is wrong 😂 try it like Sue. My grandmother (a Lakota woman) was from Standing Rock reservation. Dakota/Lakota/Nakota all mean roughly “the friendly people” Sioux is not a word from the same 7 allied tribes it means “enemy or snake in the grass” and if not obvious it’s from a rival native tribe. But settlers used it to describe our tribes and we’re now known as the Sioux Nation. Even though Sioux is not our word 😅 well we’ve kind of embraced it now lmao but I’d still not call someone that unless you know they are okay with it. Older generations may still be offended. I know the name of my UA-cam does have Sioux empire in it because the region that I live is nicknamed that, fyi it’s not calling someone that to their face.
Don't sweat the mispronunciation of Durham. This guy is mispronouncing alot of these places (example Allegheny River--is not pronounced "a-LEGinny" but rather correctly as ALaGANEY. Sheesh.
The narrator mispronounced Sioux as "see-ooh" but it's "soo".
Narrator mispronounced many native and English names.
Seems to mistakenly use Portuguese orthography for some Spanish words, too.
He said he wasn't sure of the pronunciation
@@donaldstewart8342 yes at the end, but he mispronounced names before that, Ojibwe, Siux, Durham... He sounds like somebody with book knowledge not cultural
Butchered Allegheny
@@ObelixCMM Yeah, as someone that grew up in Minnesota and South Dakota? The mispronunciation of Native American names annoyed me.
He missed some points. The land of Kentucky was called Kan-tuck by the natives. Carolinas come from Latin Carolus meaning Charles. Texas probably came from Spanish tejas meaing roof tile, reference to the numerous tiled buildings of the native Pueblos when it was "discovered".
This guy managed to bungle all of the Native words. And somehow mucked up the spelling of Alaska.
New York was a Dutch colony New Netherland with New Amsterdam (now New York City) as its capital but sold it to the British and decided to keep Suriname, Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and other Caribbean islands instead. The Dutch were busy in Africa, India and Southeast Asia which Indonesia was a Dutch colony for hundreds of years and the Cape Colony is a now what we know as South Africa today. Interesting.
Something many Americans - apparently including the former president - don't realize is that native inhabitants of the US Territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and American Samoa are all natural-born citizens of the United States. When Puerto Rico was devastated by a hurricane and Trump was criticized for handling the situation poorly, he said essentially that people should instead blame "the President of Puerto Rico." And we were like .. dude, YOU'RE the President of Puerto Rico!
I don’t think he said that about Puerto Rico, he said that against the US Virgin Islands. He didn’t know he was president of the US Virgin Islands.
We need to exile those people anyway.
“Durham” is one of those names that we have for cities in America too, but we Americans will probably mangle when pronouncing if we’ve never learned about or been to a Durham otherwise. Like Worcester. It’s funny.
Being from Georgia, i knew it and a couple of others but this was really never taught in school, or i might have just failed it miserably, lol.
👋👋fellow Georgian. See you're like me.....DAWGS and Roll Tide (family from Bama)
Fun fact about New Hampshire; not only is it named after an English place, we have Manchester as our largest city, and Portsmouth as our naval base. Both named for English places. Portsmouth is fun since it straddles the river with Maine so we have friendly bickering about what state it's really in. (Doesn't really matter, it's federal land)
😂 🙄 Oh man you guys can’t let that go! Repeatedly affirmed in court it is geographically and politically located in Kittery in the State of Maine. But it benefits both of us economically and helps support the country. So you guys can have facility naming rights and we’ll just take more of the tax revenue because, well, we’re Maine. 🤑🙃
@@indowneastmaine No we won't! 😂😂 😂 Our favorite battle with Maine! (Nobody outside our states understands how long this friendly battle has been going on. Good bar room talk.)
It's wild how little actual influence in the naming conventions of the states that Britain had
Naming states but the polítical system and pretty much most of USA culture and policíes is basically britain 😂😂😂
1:05 I definitely can and have. 1:23 and that's my method, pretty much.
I cracked up over New York. I don't really follow the monarchy but as soon as you said you want to distance yourself I knew exactly who you meant 😆
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Notes: Hmm. If, Puerto Rico, becomes one of our, States, and not another's, like say, Mexico's, the United States Virgin Islands, become a part of it! Thus avoiding the phrase, "There she is! Miss Virgin!", at beauty pageants! 😁. (It's bad enough with both, "Miss Virginia" and "Miss West Virginia", when you're in high school!)
The, District of Columbia? For decades it was presumed that it would, "New Columbia", just to keep it simple and distinguish it from the country in, South America, and from the city, Columbus, Ohio. But nooooooo! The last time that I wrote about that, some rude, functional illiterate, replied with something that indicated that just because he didn't know of that, then I must be lying! He said it would be a different name that would keep the, initials, but not what they mean. Some name movement that was news to me. But I asked, "Google", about it anyway, before blocking him. There is something about not using, "Columbia", anymore because of the bad reputation of the explorer. Okay, that's fine by me! I was thinking of the female symbol, "Lady Columbia", currently in use by a, movie studio system. She's the alternative to using, "Uncle Sam". We were almost the nation, "The United States of Columbia", but that option lost the vote and the better option won! 🇺🇸
And this also explains why our english language is so complicated. We randomly kept words and old spellings of some words and completely dropped others, from a mishmash of different languages. Zero consistency. Also, i find it sad we kept some English holiday traditions but not others. I may watch too much Agatha Christie...lol
O Jib Way. Sue.
How coincidental is it that three different people, all named Jarvis, discovered an island? Jarvis must've been a very popular name at that time. Not sure if anyone is named Jarvis today, although there certainly must be some out there.
Hey from North Carolina!
Texas used to be bigger and was a country at one time.
Another fun Texan fact, after the civil war Texas was given the right to split itself into five unique states, which would help Texas gain a lot of power in the National congress.
Clearly the presenter never attended an American elementary school. We learned all 50 states and the capitols by 4th grade. Hell we had tests on it LOL. They honestly were too lazy to hire an American to do this?.....oh hell, even a Canadian for Gods sake would have worked LOL
most americans these days don't even know who the president is or where the capitol is. a portugese person works just as well.
Way back in the '70s, we had to recite the fifty states and capitals before we left 4th grade. The sad thing is, my father only graduated 8th grade before he had to leave school to work to help his family. I was fortunate enough to attend university (I paid for it, but my parents provided room and board), and my dad could help me with college algebra. What happened to our standards in this country?
@@disoriented1 I'm assuming the presenters is talking about the kids today....can't or don't know the 50 states, not when we were in school. I can sure see that, I mean the way they teach these days is kinda pathetic so yea, I wouldn't be surprised.
UA-cam channels don't hire people to make their videos. That is kind of the point.
Or at least they should have done some research before bothering to make a video.
Naming all 50 states: people always get tripped up with the small New England states.
Kansas was named by the British, Arkansas was named by the French. Hence the pronunciation difference.
I’m from Texas, and I can tell you that we don’t have the right to become our own country. We gave up that right during Annexation in the 1840’s, but all the fools who want a “Texit” clearly skipped over that part.
Also, New Orleans was the original “Sin City”, way before Las Vegas. French aristocrats would get tired of the Bourbon Kings getting in their business, so they ran off to Louisiana and got WILD. Drinking, gambling and prostitution was all over the place, and if anyone snitched on them it would take weeks for the news to get to Versailles anyways.
There is a movement in eastern Oregon to join Idaho. There is also a parallel movement to carve out a new State called Jefferson that would take parts of northern California eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. Its all based on rural vs city population and government control.
The Jefferson fantasy has existed for years (and years). Yawn. Please. Aint happening.
The California thing will never happen. Democrats need the Electoral votes and the House seats too badly. That's why they're pushing for DC to become a state.
@@sueprator9314 If you're paying attention to to current events, Greater Idaho may happen. Both states actually would benefit from OR getting smaller, and ID getting bigger.
Mark 12:15. Hold it! The more formal translation is, "Home of the Red Man"! Hmm. 🤔 But judging by the way he talks, it would seem similar to how the, Catholic Church, insists that, "Anno Domini", means "in the year of the Lord", (probably because of the simpler, "BC", meaning, "Before Christ") because they use it that way! But if you're just wanting to speak, Latin, for the sake of it, you ignore the religious politics to use them as, "after" and "domain", respectively. (Or, "dominion".) But anyway....
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The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw language phrase okla, 'people', and humma, translated as 'red'. Choctaw Nation Chief Allen Wright suggested the name in 1866 during treaty negotiations with the federal government on the use of Indian Territory. He envisioned an all-American Indian state controlled by the United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Oklahoma later became the de facto name for Oklahoma Territory, and it was officially approved in 1890, two years after that area was opened to white settlers.
In the Chickasaw language, the state is known as Oklahomma', in Arapaho as bo'oobe' (literally meaning 'red earth'), Pawnee: Uukuhuúwa, and Cayuga: Gahnawiyoˀgeh.
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PS: Though like it is with, Indianapolis, Indiana, the people of, India, have nothing to do with it! Going along with the big mistake of, Christopher Columbus's, just because of the frailty of the, stupid ego pride of Europeans, is something that we're trying to belatedly correct! Though some now want to replace, "Native", with "First", probably to placate people that whine about being born in the, USA. 🤔😁
You all should check out John Pinette
This is literally how i learn American history. Thanks lol
You shouldn't. This video has so many inaccuracies.
Daz! You got some fine kids!
I just love Aidan trying to hold back an eye roll when Daz has literally been everywhere, done everything and knows everybody.
Wow the narrator should have researched how to say the native tribe names
Just a reminder: We fought the bloodiest war in American history when Texas and 10 other states seceded from the Union. We're not likely (I hope) to repeat that mistake. Texas isn't the only state where a few crazy people openly fantasize about secession, and this happens in non-Southern states as well.
We r not crazy if we want to be a country again
@@Hotwheelz57 I'm talking about people who want to actually do it again, not just wish it was so. Also, anyone who thinks secession is a good idea for any state might want to consider how unimaginably expensive it would be--creating your own military, the loss of federal tax dollars (for those states that receive more than they pay), expanding state government to replace federal services (Social Security, Medicare), massive economic disruption, etc. (Ironically, the Confederate national government was frequently criticized for its necessary wartime impositions on the states.) As for Texas, it's already one of the least "messed with" places on Earth. It functions in some ways like its own country, but never or rarely refuses federal money or assistance.
There is nothing crazy about secession.
@@bobzyurunkel There's nothing crazy about treason? You are quite confused. By the way, just advocating for treason is a crime--it's called sedition.
@@JPMadden I don’t care about legalities.
Potowatmi was forced walked from Indiana to Kansas.
He got Utah wrong. According to the Utah.gov website, Utah got its name from the Ute Native American tribe that were indigenous to the area. Every kid in Utah is taught that. Apache territory was way further south, so I don't know why we would use an Apache word to name it.
Aidan looks like he'd love to be on BrutalTops or StraightHell. He's so annoying 12:44
Secession was deemed unconstitutional after the civil war, as prior to the emancipation proclamation that’s a big factor in how the optics of the war were being presented. The Union was fighting for union obviously, and the Confederacy for secession due to a myriad of reasons though primarily centered around the issue of slavery and wanting to maintain its legality. When the war ended, slavery was not the only issue that was settled in the war, secession was as well. Due to this, Texas can’t legally secede even if they actually wanted to, not without a conflict with the federal US government. Same with California. No one really flirts with the idea seriously outside very fringe political groups, it’s just not realistic in any real capacity. Texans and Californians always joke about secession due to previously being their own countries, but these countries were primarily founded by US settlers attempting to expand the US, they never really were supposed to stay as independent states. Texas spent pretty much the entirety of its independent period petitioning and lobbying the US for statehood. Statehood as previously mentioned has been deemed to be eternally binding as well, so once you’re in you’re in. Territories have more agency in this manner from my understanding. There have been a few US territories to become independent if i am not mistaken.
I wouldn't mind if Aidan payed me a visit 😈
21 year old New Hampshirite. I can name all 50 states and capitals in about 5 minutes
We were taught all the state's and their capital's. Presidents and their order which I may fail now lol
Ironic that Nevada's name means "snow-covered", because most of the state is hot, sandy desert.
hmm. Disappointing that the video did not mention New York’s original naming New Amsterdam and New Netherlands? Weird considering how much detail was put into other research….
Prior to the 1860s, the name "Georgia" was also given to male children...
There's a song for learning all fifty states in alphabetical order
Utah was named for the native Ute tribe. Not sure where this person got their info from
My god, that source video takes WAY TOO LONG to actually get started.
Is Sophie related to OB Mike?
By law a state can not breakaway from the United states