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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 |
Taylor | | ['teilə] | |
Chlothar | | - | Ancient Germanic |
Gumarich | | - | Ancient Germanic |
MÓNica | | MO-nee-kah | Spanish |
Wanda | | VAHN-dah (Polish), WAHN-də (English) | Polish, English, German, French |
BelÉN | | be-LEN | Spanish |