13 Rhode Island Slang Terms You Should Know

Know what to say when you visit Little Rhody. / Fei Huang / 500px/Getty Images (bridge), Justin Dodd/Mental Floss (speech bubble) You can't spell t...

May 30, 2023
2:24 AM

Know what to say when you visit Little Rhody. / Fei Huang / 500px/Getty Images (bridge), Justin Dodd/Mental Floss (speech bubble) You can't spell tourism without 'RI'—in fact, Rhode Island is the only state whose postal abbreviation shows up in that word. If that alone isn't intriguing enough, the name of the smallest state in the Union is a bit of a misnomer: It's not an island as a whole, but it does have an abundance of them—including Aquidneck Island, Block Island, and Prudence Island. There are many more Rhode Island-related quirks to understand, especially in terms of how the locals refer to locations, dishes, and other cultural aspects of the last of the 13 colonies to take up statehood.

Al Daniel