Missippi

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English

Alternative forms

Miss'ippi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɪˈsɪpi/

Proper noun

Missippi

(Southern US) Nonstandard form of Mississippi.
- 1965 [1959], William Faulkner, The Mansion (The Snopes Trilogy; 3)‎, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:
  Not only you won’t be depriving no native-born Missippi grub contractor outen his rightful and natural profit on the native-born Missippi grub […]
- 2009 August 24, James Patterson, Richard DiLallo, Alex Cross's Trial (Alex Cross; 15), London: Random House, →ISBN, page 374:
  "Mama always said I come into Miss'ippi the same year Miss'ippi joined up with the United States."
- 2009 November 15, Charles W. Eagles, “Segregation at Ole Miss”, in The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss‎, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 43:
  In succeeding months and years, the tall and mustachioed Jim Ivy and his cry of "Come on, Miss'ippi" became increasingly popular, and college students began to affectionately call him "Blind Jim."

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