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Knowing the origin of the names of all 50 states and $5 might get you a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks.

But then it might help in a trivial pursuit contest or to win a bar bet.

I remember reading once how proud Michael Jordan said he was that he knew the capitals of all fifty states.

Big deal said the blonde girl sitting nearby. She said she knew them all, too.

Test - What's the capital of Pennsylvania she was asked.

Answer - That's easy. It's 'P.'

Dum de dum dum.

This website teaches the origins of the names of the fifty states.

ALABAMA. Possibly from the Creek Indian word alibamo, meaning "we stay here."

ALASKA. From the Aleutian word alakshak, which means "great lands," or "land that is not an island."

ARIZONA. Taken either from the pima Indian words ali shonak, meaning "little spring," or from the Aztec word arizuma, meaning "silver-bearing."

ARKANSAS. The French somehow coined it from the name of the Siouan Quapaw tribe.

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