Tag yourself, I'm Rizona and YOU ALL KNOW WHY
(also tempted to go with Assachusetts)
I think the multi-word ones should have the first letter of each word taken out. Orth Akota, Ew Ork, Hode Sland.
With one exception: Rhode Island should be Hoe Island for obvious reasons
And Alaska was part of Russia for a while... makes me wonder what it was called back then?
Аля́ска (compared to ласкать)
Or transliterated - Aliáska (compared to laskat-)
The name "Alaska" (Russian: Аляска, romanized: Alyaska) was introduced in the Russian colonial period when it was used to refer to the Alaska Peninsula. It was derived from an Aleut-language idiom, alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or, more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed".
The diminutive form is Алясочка / Alyasochka, I learned that from a Lyube song
How do I pronounce your pronouns? Same sound as he/him or different?