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TIL that pronouncing Arkansas as "Arkansaw" is required by Arkansas state law. "-as" is how French explorers spelled what they heard local Indians say as their name for the region, which Americans spelled as "-aw". The 1881 law honors the French spelling and Indian pronunciation.

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