Connecticut: Difference between revisions

The name "Connecticut" originated with the [[Mohegan]] word ''quonehtacut'', meaning "place of long tidal river".<ref name="AboutCT">{{cite web |url=http://portal.ct.gov/about/ |title=General Description & Facts |department=Portal.CT.gov |publisher=State of Connecticut |access-date=October 25, 2015 |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016141503/http://portal.ct.gov/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Connecticut's official nickname is "The Constitution State", adopted in 1959 and based on its colonial constitution of 1638–1639 which was the first in America and, arguably, the world.<ref name=SOTS>{{cite web |title=Sites, Seals & Symbols |website=Secretary of the State |publisher=State of Connecticut |url = http://www.sots.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?A=3188&QUESTION_ID=392608 |date=August 28, 2015 |ref=SOTS |access-date=October 25, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080731053844/http://www.sots.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?A=3188&QUESTION_ID=392608 |archive-date=July 31, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Connecticut is also unofficially known as "The [[Nutmeg]] State",<ref name = SOTS/> whose origin is unknown. It may have come from its sailors returning from voyages with nutmeg, which was a very valuable spice in the 18th and 19th centuries. It may have originated in the early machined sheet tin nutmeg grinders sold by early Connecticut peddlers. It is also facetiously said to come from [[Yankee]] peddlers from Connecticut who would sell small carved knobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers.<ref name = "cslib" /> [[George Washington]] gave Connecticut the title of "The Provisions State"<ref name=SOTS/> because of the material aid that the state rendered to the American Revolutionary War effort. Connecticut is also known as "The Land of Steady Habits".<ref name=SOTS />