Editing Connecticut (section)

==Etymology and symbols==

{{Infobox region symbols|country=United States
|image_flag = Flag of Connecticut.svg
|image_seal = Seal of Connecticut.svg
|image_arms = Coat of arms of Connecticut.svg
|state = Connecticut
|bird = [[American robin]]
|fish = [[American shad]]
|flower = [[Kalmia latifolia|Mountain laurel]]
|insect = [[European mantis]]
|mammal = [[Sperm whale]]
|tree = [[Charter Oak]], a [[white oak]]
|dance = [[Square dance]]
|fossil = [[Trace fossil|Dinosaur tracks]]
|mineral = [[Garnet]]
|motto = {{plainlist|
* ''[[Qui transtulit sustinet]]'' [[Latin]]
* "He Who Transplanted Still Sustains"}}
|shell = [[Eastern oyster]]
|ship = {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571}}, {{ship||Freedom Schooner Amistad}}
|slogan = ''Full of Surprises''
|song = {{plainlist|
* "[[Yankee Doodle]]"
* "[[Nutmegger|The Nutmeg]]"}}
|tartan = [http://portal.ct.gov/About/State-Symbols/The-State-Tartan/ Connecticut State Tartan]
|image_route = Connecticut Highway 15.svg
|image_quarter = 1999 CT Proof.png
|quarter_release_date = 1999
}}

The name "Connecticut" originated with the [[Mohegan]] word ''quonehtacut'', meaning "place of long tidal river".<ref name="AboutCT">{{cite web |url=http://portal.ct.gov/about/ |title=General Description & Facts |department=Portal.CT.gov |publisher=State of Connecticut |access-date=October 25, 2015 |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016141503/http://portal.ct.gov/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Connecticut's official nickname is "The Constitution State", adopted in 1959 and based on its colonial constitution of 1638–1639 which was the first in America and, arguably, the world.<ref name=SOTS>{{cite web |title=Sites, Seals & Symbols |website=Secretary of the State |publisher=State of Connecticut |url = http://www.sots.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?A=3188&QUESTION_ID=392608 |date=August 28, 2015 |ref=SOTS |access-date=October 25, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080731053844/http://www.sots.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?A=3188&QUESTION_ID=392608 |archive-date=July 31, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Connecticut is also unofficially known as "The [[Nutmeg]] State",<ref name = SOTS/> whose origin is unknown. It may have come from its sailors returning from voyages with nutmeg, which was a very valuable spice in the 18th and 19th centuries. It may have originated in the early machined sheet tin nutmeg grinders sold by early Connecticut peddlers. It is also facetiously said to come from [[Yankee]] peddlers from Connecticut who would sell small carved knobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers.<ref name = "cslib" /> [[George Washington]] gave Connecticut the title of "The Provisions State"<ref name=SOTS/> because of the material aid that the state rendered to the [[American Revolutionary War]] effort. Connecticut is also known as "The Land of Steady Habits".<ref name=SOTS />

According to ''Webster's New International Dictionary'' (1993), a person who is a native or resident of Connecticut is a "Connecticuter". There are numerous other terms coined in print but not in use, such as "Connecticotian" ([[Cotton Mather]] in 1702) and "Connecticutensian" ([[Samuel Peters (clergyman)|Samuel Peters]] in 1781). Linguist [[Allen Walker Read]] suggests the more playful term "Connecticutie".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/In+memoriam%3A+Allen+Walker+Read+(1906-2002)-a0125988049 |title=In memoriam: Allen Walker Read (1906–2002). |publisher=The Free Library |date=2004 |access-date=November 1, 2021 }}</ref> "[[Nutmegger]]" is sometimes used,<ref name="cslib">{{cite web |url = http://www.cslib.org/nicknamesCT.htm |title=Connecticut's Nicknames |website=Connecticut State Library |access-date=September 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110905051813/http://www.cslib.org/nicknamesCT.htm |archive-date=September 5, 2011 }}</ref> as is "[[Yankee]]".

The official state song is "[[Yankee Doodle]]". The traditional abbreviation of the state's name is "Conn."; the official [[United States postal abbreviations|postal abbreviation]] is CT.

[[Commemorative stamp]]s issued by the [[United States Postal Service]] with Connecticut themes include [[Nathan Hale]], [[Eugene O'Neill]], [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]], [[Noah Webster]], [[Eli Whitney]], the [[whaling]] ship the ''[[Charles W. Morgan (ship)|Charles W. Morgan]]'', which is docked at [[Mystic Seaport]], and a [[decoy]] of a broadbill [[duck]].
<gallery widths="200px" heights="160px">
File:Charter Oak in Hartford CT.jpg|The [[Charter Oak]]
File:SS-571-Nautilus-trials.gif|The {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571}}
</gallery>
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
|+ Connecticut state insignia and historical figures<br /><sup>Source [[#SOTS|Sites, Seals & Symbols]] except where noted.</sup>
|-
|State aircraft || [[Vought F4U Corsair]]
|-
|State hero || [[Nathan Hale]]
|-
|State heroine || [[Prudence Crandall]]
|-
|State composer || [[Charles Edward Ives]]
|-
|[[Sculptures of the National Statuary Hall Collection|State statues]] in [[National Statuary Hall|Statuary Hall]] || [[Roger Sherman]] and [[Jonathan Trumbull]]
|-
<!-- STATE PEOPLE, HONORARY POSTS -->
|[[State poet laureate]] || [[Margaret Gibson (poet)|Margaret Gibson]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://portal.ct.gov/DECD/Content/Arts-Culture/Awards_Recognition/State-Poet-Laureate/Meet-the-Current-Poet-Laureate |title=Meet the Current Poet Laureate |website=Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts |publisher=State of Connecticut |access-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220151001/https://portal.ct.gov/en/404error/?item=%2fdecd%2fcontent%2farts-culture%2fawards_recognition%2fstate-poet-laureate%2fmeet-the-current-poet-laureate&user=extranet%5cAnonymous&site=website |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|[[Connecticut State Troubadour]] || [[Nekita Waller]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://portal.ct.gov/DECD/Content/Arts-Culture/Awards_Recognition/State-Troubadour/Meet-the-Current-Troubadour |title=2018–2021 Connecticut State Troubadour – Nekita Waller |website=Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts |publisher=State of Connecticut |access-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220151053/https://portal.ct.gov/en/404error/?item=%2fdecd%2fcontent%2farts-culture%2fawards_recognition%2fstate-troubadour%2fmeet-the-current-troubadour&user=extranet%5cAnonymous&site=website |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|State composer laureate || [[Jacob Druckman]]
|}