Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down12
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkTIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoHere’s the really crazy thing. Ark City, KS is located on the Ar-KAN-sas River. But this is the same river that flows through Little Rock under the name AR-kan-saw.
minus-squareBaroqueInMind@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWe come through and destroy an entire native civilization, and as a final “fuck you” we butcher their dead languages and name military equipment after them.
Here’s the really crazy thing.
Ark City, KS is located on the Ar-KAN-sas River. But this is the same river that flows through Little Rock under the name AR-kan-saw.
We come through and destroy an entire native civilization, and as a final “fuck you” we butcher their dead languages and name military equipment after them.