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Why anyone would start to Wyom, much less continue and name a state after that is a mystery
"We're gonna go live over there "
"Why? OMG."
Then whyomg
Wyomng
Wyoming
None of that's true, but it could have been if history happened differently.
"O.M.G. Could our wagon horses go any slower"
TIL: Chandler's ancestors were equally sarcastic.
Wyoming, the state, was named after Wyoming, the region in Pennsylvania.