Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 3
November 30, 2012
Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
Nebraska is the only state to have a nickname that honors sports teams! The state university's athletic teams are nicknamed Cornhuskers">Cornhuskers in recognition of one of the area's chief crops. The state borrowed the
Cornhusker
nickname from the university.
The western desert state of Nevada is called
the Silver State.
It was once home to many silver mines and towns that grew up around them. Today, most of them are empty “ghost towns.”
New Hampshire, in the northeast area called New England, is
the Granite State
because of that colorful rock.
The Empire State Building is lit up in red in honor of World AIDS Day
New Jersey is between the big cities of New York, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It got its nickname,
the Garden State,
because New Jersey truck farms once provided vegetables to those big cities.
New York, which always thinks big, was called
the Empire State
because of its natural wealth. The most famous Manhattan skyscraper got its name from the state. It is, of course, the Empire State Building.
If you get a chance to see a red sunset over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, you will know why that southwestern state is called
the Land of Enchantment.
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