英语词汇prairie state的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	prairie state
词源	Prairie State. A nickaname for Illinois first recorded in 1842. Illinois has also been called the Garden of the West, the Corn State and the Sucker State (probably because land speculators often cheated the early settlers, but possibly after the catfish of the genus Catostomus common in the state’s rivers).
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