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Mississippi vs Alabama - What's the difference?

mississippi | alabama |

As nouns the difference between mississippi and alabama

is that mississippi is a recitation of “mississippi” (interjection) while alabama is alabama (language).

As a proper noun mississippi

is a capital jackson: postal abbreviation: ms .

As an interjection mississippi

is used to count out a time of about one second, especially in games.

mississippi

English

(wikipedia Mississippi)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A (USstate). Capital Jackson: Postal abbreviation: MS
  • A major river in North America that rises in Minnesota and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Used to count out a time of about one second, especially in games.
  • * 1996 , “Cheers & Jeers”, in Field and Stream , v 101, September, p 12:
    • Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi', Two ' Mississippi , etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A recitation of “Mississippi” (interjection).
  • * 1997 , George Clark, The Small Bees’ Honey: Stories , Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, p 129:
    • I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.

    Synonyms

    * (state) the Magnolia State, the Hospitality State (nicknames) * (river) the Big Muddy (also more commonly used for the Missouri ), Big River, Body of a Nation, El Grande, El Grande de Soto, the Father of Waters, the Gathering of Waters, the Great River, the Mighty Mississippi, the Muddy Mississippi, Old Man River (nicknames)

    Derived terms

    * Mississippian * Mississippi kite * Mississippi plan * Mississippi rifle * MS

    See also

    * * * Mississippi ----

    alabama

    English

    (wikipedia Alabama)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A state of the United States of America (postal abbreviation AL) in the southeastern United States with its capital at Montgomery, and Birmingham as its largest city.
  • The (Alabama River), which runs through the state of Alabama.
  • A Native American tribe originally from central Alabama.
  • The language of the Alabama Nation.

    • Derived terms

    * AL * Alabama River * Alabaman * Alabamian

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (akz) * (Alabama people) * (Alabama language) * ----