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State Names & Nicknames
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A list of US state slogans is available, as well
as a list of US state State Name, origin of the state names, and the state resident's
names.
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Missouri State Names
Missouri Name Etymology and State Nicknames
Midwest
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Show-Me State
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Bullion State
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Iron Mountain State
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Lead State
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Cave State
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Puke State
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Ozark State
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Bullion State
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Cave State
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Pennsylvania of the West.
Origin of Missouri State Name
Missouri gets its name from a tribe of Sioux Indians of the state called the Missouris. The word "Missouri" often
has been construed to mean "muddy water" but the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology has stated
it means "town of the large canoes," and authorities have said the Indian syllables from which the word comes mean
"wooden canoe people" or "he of the big canoe."
Nicknames
There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet "Show-Me" state. The slogan is not official,
but is common throughout the state and is used on Missouri license plates.
The Missouri Bootheel is the southeasternmost part of the state of Missouri and is called the "Bootheel"
because of the shape of its boundaries. Strictly speaking, it is composed of the counties of Dunklin, New
Madrid, and Pemiscot, but the term is sometimes broadly used to refer to the entire southeastern corner of the
state.
Show-Me State:
There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet "Show-Me" state.
The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's US Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served
in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the US House Committee on Naval
Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, "I come from a
state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies
me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me." Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain
that his speech helped to popularize the saying.
Other versions of the "Show-Me" legend place the slogan's origin in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. There,
the phrase was first employed as a term of ridicule and reproach. A miner's strike had been in progress for some
time in the mid-1890s, and a number of miners from the lead districts of southwest Missouri had been imported to
take the places of the strikers. The Joplin miners were unfamiliar with Colorado mining methods and required frequent
instructions. Pit bosses began saying, "That man is from Missouri. You'll have to show him."
However the slogan originated, it has since passed into a different meaning entirely, and is now used to indicate
the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians.
Resources:
Rossiter, Phyllis. "I'm from Missouri--you'll have to show me." Rural Missouri, Volume 42, Number 3, March 1989,
page 16.
Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1979-1980, page 1486.
Iron Mountain State, Bullion State
Attributed to politician Thomas Hart Benton, an advocate of hard money, or gold and silver.
Lead State, Ozark State, Puke State, Cave State, and the Pennsylvania of the West.
Others includes the Lead State, the Ozark State, the Puke State
(possibly a corruption of "Pike", as there is a Pike County in Missouri, and another just across the river in
Illinois), the Cave State, and the Pennsylvania of the West.
Slogans
Where the Rivers Run
Missouri Postal Code
MO
Missouri Resident's Name
Missourian
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State Names
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The etymologies of some US state names are more obvious than
others, derived from the Spanish or French tongue. Though, more than half of the US state
names come from Native American tribal languages, with several still a mystery to scholars
and historians.
name \ˈnām\
noun
Etymology:Middle English, from Old English nama; akin to Old High German namo name,
Latin nomen, Greek onoma, onyma
Date: before 12th century
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a: a word or phrase that constitutes the distinctive designation of a person or
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b: a word or symbol used in logic to designate an entity |
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