AEE 2592: What Can State Mottos Teach You About American Culture?
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2592.
What can state mottos teach us about American culture?
What can state mottos teach you about American culture?
Welcome to the All Ears English Podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.
How do state mottos reflect individual rights and freedoms?
And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. In a recent episode of the podcast, I quoted my state motto to support an example that I shared and to show my viewpoint. Today, let's see what other state mottos are and how you can start a conversation about freedom, liberty, and more in English.
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Hey, Lindsay, how are you? Awesome, Aubrey.
How are you doing?
Excellent. What's your day like today? Busy?
Oh, my day's pretty busy today. Well, we're recording on the show today. So yeah, always busy if you're recording, right?
We record quite a chunk, guys. We'll record several episodes at once. So that's always makes for a busy day.
Makes for a busy day. Absolutely. I mean, what are we talking about today? Today's a very unique cultural episode, which I'm super excited about.
Yes. So you're going to get a lot of insight into American culture here. On a recent episode, Lindsay quoted her state motto, which we're going to talk more about today. I didn't even know my state motto, Lindsay. I had to look it up. The state where I'm from.
You had to look it up. I think it's probably more common your scenario than mine, but I remember what we were talking about. We were talking about, it was the episode about running red lights. And I had said that I had a speedometer detector, radar detector when I was in high school in my car. And I think I said something like, yeah, live free or die. And it just felt appropriate to quote my state motto because in that moment I it felt like, hey, if we want to try to protect ourselves from getting pulled over for speeding, we have that right too, right?
So it just felt very... Yes, yours comes up kind of often in conversations, right? But I am very curious. It's very possible that a lot of Americans do know their state motto. A lot of them, as I was looking up some state mottos, a lot of them are very patriotic. They're very tied to our history. But then I looked up Idaho isn't really. It's a Latin phrase, esto perpetua, which means may it endure forever. And Arizona's is, it was Dita Deus, a Latin phrase meaning God and riches. So not every state is like patriotic, but a lot of them are.
Yeah, it's interesting because I think with live free or die, which is the New Hampshire motto, people... People put it up against the nickname of the state. So you have like state mottos and then you have state nicknames, right? Like, so everyone will say, oh, Florida, the sunshine state, California, the golden state, New Hampshire, live free or die. Oh, that's funny.
That makes sense. It is happy, live free or die. Wow. Yeah.
Right. But we're going to learn a lot today. This is going to be great.
We're going to share the origin of some of these and the phrases for some.
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