I’m driving around Wichita, Kansas, looking for the Arkansas River and I can’t find it. That is probably because I’m pronouncing it like the state of Arkansas (with a “saw” at the end) and I find out the people around Kansas pronounce it like their state. Now that I know how to say the river’s name in this region, I finally spot it, after taking the time to see some of the Wichita sites like the re-created frontier community of Cowtown and the Wichita Indian Center, but the river
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