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How to pronounce Mississippi
How do Mississippians pronounce Mississippi?
Mississippi Houses To many places with unusual, complexTo–to tell names. When it comes to to pronunciationit doesn’t get much more difficult than this name patter, which, by the way, is CHOO-ta-kah-BOOM-FUH.
Mississippi is an English word?
(cape’i-sip’e) Abbr. MS or Ms. State in the southeastern United States. However, the name Mississippi actually comes from the Ojibwa misi-sipi, meaning just a big river. In 1666, French explorers somewhere in the western Great Lakes region came across the name Ojibwa and translated it as Messipi.