Actually the word Florida is an English word, used in English government back in the early 16th century - I think it was in the time of Henry VII (grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I)
Nope.
Spanish for "flowery".
Therefore you do not exist. Your state is illegal.
I’ve been following along here...this is quite fascinating and bizarre at that same time...either you’re 11 years old or you really can’t decipher the difference between speaking English and speaking Spanish.
OR
You just take great pleasure in making an ass of yourself in public.
Which is it?
Sigh ---- being a Special Ed teacher requires so much patience...
Florida
U.S. state, formerly a Spanish colony, probably from
Spanish Pascua florida, literally "flowering Easter," a Spanish name for Palm Sunday, and so named because the peninsula was discovered on that day (March 20, 1513) by the expedition of Spanish explorer Ponce de León. From Latin
floridus "flowery, in bloom" (see
florid). Related:
Floridian (1580s as a noun, in reference to the natives; 1819 as an adjective). ---
OED