What is the origin of the name Mississippi which was used to name the river?
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The name itself comes from either the Ojibwe, a Native American language spoken around the river's headwaters, or some other closely related Algonquian language, meaning "great river."
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The word Mississippi was fun to spell when i was small. It has a weird pattern, but that's what makes it interesting. I prefer spelling Mississippi rather than words like exercise and aspire.
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Actually, they're not EXACTLY the longest rivers on their continents.\nAmazon and Nile, yes.\nBut the longest river in North America is the Mississippi-Missouri system. To track the longest river, you have to start at the mouth of the Mississippi (near New Orleans), travel generally northward to a point north of St. Louis, at which point you turn left and follow the Missouri River to Montana (where various streams join to form the Missouri). So the Mississippi (which begins in Minnesota) is NOT the longest river in North America, but the SOUTHERN HALF of the Mississippi River is PART of the longest river in North America.
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Eric Partridge, in Origins (1983), says OK derives from the OK Club, which supported Martin "Old Kinderhook" Van Buren in 1840. That isn't wrong, but it's only half the story. \n\nWilliam and Mary Morris, in the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (1977), mention the OK Club and give several other theories as well, including the off-the-wall idea that OK comes from "Aux Cayes," a port in Haiti noted for its rum. They imply the matter is still shrouded in mystery.\n\nBaloney. The etymology of OK was masterfully explained by the distinguished Columbia University professor Allen Walker Read in a series of articles in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964. \n\nThe letters, not to keep you guessing, stand for "oll korrect." They're the result of a fad for comical abbreviations that flourished in the late 1830s and 1840s. \n\nRead buttressed his arguments with hundreds of citations from newspapers and other documents of the period. As far as I know his work has never been successfully challenged.\n\nThe abbreviation fad began in Boston in the summer of 1838 and spread to New York and New Orleans in 1839. The Boston newspapers began referring satirically to the local swells as OFM, "our first men," and used expressions like NG, "no go," GT, "gone to Texas," and SP, "small potatoes." \n\nMany of the abbreviated expressions were exaggerated misspellings, a stock in trade of the humorists of the day. One predecessor of OK was OW, "oll wright," and there was also KY, "know yuse," KG, "know go," and NS, "nuff said."\n\nMost of these acronyms enjoyed only a brief popularity. But OK was an exception, no doubt because it came in so handy. It first found its way into print in Boston in March of 1839 and soon became widespread among the hipper element. \n\nIt didn't really enter the language at large, however, until 1840. That's when Democratic supporters of Martin Van Buren adopted it as the name of their political club, giving OK a double meaning. ("Old Kinderhook" was a native of Kinderhook, New York.) \n\nOK became the warcry of Tammany hooligans in New York while beating up their opponents. It was mentioned in newspaper stories around the country.\n\nVan Buren's opponents tried to turn the phrase against him, saying that it had originated with Van Buren's allegedly illiterate predecessor, Andrew Jackson, a story that has survived to this day. They also devoted considerable energy to coming up with unflattering interpretations, e.g., "Out of Kash, Out of Kredit, and Out of Klothes." \n\nNewspaper editors and publicists around the country delighted in coming up with even sillier interpretations-- Oll Killed, Orfully Konfused, Often Kontradicts, etc.--so that by the time the campaign was over the expression had taken firm root nationwide.\n\nAs time went on, though, people forgot about the abbreviation fad and Old Kinderhook and began manufacturing their own etymologies. Here's a sampling: \n\n(1) It's a derivative of the Choctaw Indian affirmative "okeh." Andrew Jackson, who figures in many stories about OK, is said to have introduced the word to the white man.\n\n(2) Another Jackson story has it that he used to mark OK for "oll korrect" on court documents. In the one example of this that was actually unearthed, however, the OK was found actually to be OR, for "order recorded," a common courthouse abbreviation. \n\n(3) It was a telegraphic signal meaning "open key," that is, ready to receive. Others say OK was used for "all right" because A and R had already been appropriated for other purposes. Big problem with this theory: the first telegraph message was transmitted in 1844, five years after OK appeared.\n\n(4) It stands for O. Kendall & Sons, a supplier of army biscuits that stamped its initials on its product
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The Niagara and Genesee Rivers in Upstate New York flow north. The Licking River in Kentucky flows north. There are probably many more.\n\nIn 1869, an earthquake hit Memphis, TN, causing the Mississippi to flow backwards (south to north) for 90 seconds!
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Assuming you aren't asking a trick question, I would say that the greatest river that flows south through the North Central Region of the United States is the Mississippi. Another candidate would be the Missouri, if your idea of North Central is a little further west.
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Missouri River\n\nArkansas River (in Kansas it's pronounced "ar-KAN-sus," not "AR-kun-saw")\n\nNeosho River\n\nRepublican River\n\nand others:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rivers_of_Kansas
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Andrew Jackson was known as "Old Hickory".  You can find a biography which explains how he got the nickname here: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/public/jackson.htm
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Originally, it was because the state had a great amount of farmland and free labor(slavery).  Also, the ease of shipping down the MS River was beneficial.\n\nNow, I don't believe it is not the King of the Mississippi economy.  Probably soybeans.  And Gambling of course.  MS is the 3rd largest gambling destination in the world behind Vegas and Atlantic City.
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There are 87 counties in Mississippi.\n\nThe ones that look like they have native American names would be (IMO): Alcorn, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Coahoma, Copiah, Issaquena, Itawamba, Neshoba, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pontotoc, Tallahatchie, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Yalobusha, and Yazoo
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Arkansas-The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled.\n\nKansas-The state is named after the Kansas River that flows through it, which in turn derived its name from the Siouan word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind."
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The Name we use today derives from the Pyramid of Pepy I at Saqqara, which is Mennufer (the good place), or Coptic Menfe. Memphis is the Greek translation. But the City was originally Ineb-Hedj, meaning "The White Wall". \n\nSome sources indicate that other versions of the name may have even translated to our modern name for the country, Egypt. During the Middle Kingdom, it was Ankh-Tawy, or "That Which Binds the Two Lands".
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The Mississippi!  It has more major rivers that deposit into it than the Ohio has and it is much longer than the Ohio before they come together.
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mississippi state\n\n:>peace
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Some believe it came from the abbreviation of Orrin Kendall biscuits, which soldiers ate during the civil war. Others say OK is short for Aux Cayes, a Haitian port that American sailors praised for its rum. Another legend suggests the word comes from Old Keokuk, a Native American tribal chief who was said to have signed treaties with his initials. \n\nWhat is known is that one of the first instances of OK appearing in print was in the spring of 1839 by the Boston Morning Post: \n\nIt is hardly necessary to say to those who know Mr. Hughes, that his establishment will be found to be 'A. No. One' -- that is, O.K. -- all correct. \n\nSo if OK stands for "all correct," wouldn't it be "AC"? Not exactly, says linguist Erin McKean, who points out that the word was intentionally misspelled. Much like the way people on the Internet shorten or abbreviate words when typing, OK was misspelled on purpose. \n\n"For instance, a lot of kids online spell "cool," "k-e-w-l," says McKean, senior editor for U.S. dictionaries at Oxford Press. "They know how to spell cool, but it just looks cooler to spell it "k-e-w-l." \n\nIt was cool in certain East Coast cities in the mid-19th century to substitute OK for "all correct." McKean says it was common for people of that day to use inside lingo -- shorthand full of puns, purposeful misspellings and abbreviations. For example, they'd use "SP" for "small potatoes," or "TBFTB" for "too big for their britches." \n\nOther abbreviations faded into obscurity, but the word OK stuck around. One of the reasons it weathered time is because it got a boost from then-president Martin Van Buren. \n\nVan Buren, a native of Kinderhook, N.Y., was popularly referred to as "Old Kinderhook" -- OK for short. Van Buren's 1840 reelection campaign became so heated that the word OK was widely used and abused by both sides. \n\nIn fact, to hurt the Democratic Party, an opponent started a rumor that it was former president Andrew Jackson who created OK, as an abbreviation of "all correct." The rumor implied that the rustic Jackson was a poor speller. That explanation for OK wasn't true, either, but it did have staying power. And it helped propel the use of OK even further. \n\nSo much, in fact, that it's used all around the world today. \n\n"To talk about the larger phenomenon as OK spread across the America and given to the world -- that implies that it has multiple origins; that people accept it for a variety of reasons," says Michael Adams, a linguist and an Albright College professor. \n\nAdams says there are words like OK in many other languages. In the West African language of Wolof, "waw kay" means "yes." In Choctaw, "okeh" means "indeed." \n\nWhile there isn't any proof that any of the words gave birth to the American OK, Adams says it's possible that the many non-English phrases helped the English one stick. \n\n"The influence of Choctaw, African American speech, political speech -- all of that came together in a kind of melting pot," Adams says. "There is a sense that the newspaper started it, but all those other influences came together to make OK probably the most popular American English word." \n\nMcKean says because OK has that sense of "jauntiness and belonging," people from all over the globe want a part of it. \n\nFamed journalist H.L. Mencken wrote about it. American soldiers took it to the places they were stationed. It was even taken into space, by astronauts like John Glenn, who excitedly exclaimed as the Friendship 7 launched, that "We're all OK!" \n\n"I'm trying to think what people would have said before OK," McKean questions. "If you had to go through a day without it, could you do it? Are you going to say, "right you are,&quo
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The Ohio River.\n\nThe Compromise established a boundary between the slave states of the south and the free states of the north... This boundary became referred to as the Mason-Dixon line because it began in the east along the Mason-Dixon line and headed westward to the Ohio River and along the Ohio to its mouth at the Mississippi River and then west along 36° 30' North.\n\nhttp://ask.yahoo.com/20000829.html
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River Sienne in France   Sienne River in  Mississippi