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I'm from Missouri
I'm from Missouri
Prove it! Missouri's unofficial nickname is the Show-Me State, based on the inhabitants' reputed skepticism. One legend attributes the phrase's popularity to Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver. While a member of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, he said at an 1899 naval banquet, “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.” Even people who didn't hail from that state could be heard to question something with “I'm from Missouri . . . you'll have to show me.”
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Amin | | - | Arabic, Persian, Urdu |
Simonu | | - | Old Church Slavic |
Jayden | | JAY-dən | English (Modern) |
Gwenhwyfar | | - | Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Romance |
Lyudmila | | lyood-MEE-lah (Russian) | Russian, Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic |
Ethna | | - | Irish |