Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

show me state

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.39 in modern English

Syllables: show me s-tate
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Official nickname for Missouri: a state of the United States.

Etymology

Uncertain, but often attributed to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who in a speech in Philadelphia in 1899 declared, "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."

Inflected Forms

the Show Me State (canonical)

Questions

What does show me state mean?: Official nickname for Missouri: a state of the United States.
Where does show me state come from?: Uncertain, but often attributed to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who in a speech in Philadelphia in 1899 declared, "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."

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