Recent entries:
• “St. Patrick’s Day is just Cinco de Mayo for gingers living in Florida” (3/18)
• “Remember that level of Super Mario 3, where the sun is trying to kill you? That’s Florida” (7/16)
• “Florida kilos imply the existence of Florida ounces” (7/15)
• “Florida ounces imply the existence of California ounces” (7/15)
• Florida Ounces (joke about “fl. oz.” or fluid ounces) (7/15)
More new entries...

The Sunshine State. An etymological dictionary investigating the origins of Florida words, names, quotations and phrases, specializing in modern slang, nicknames, slogans, proverbs, adages and aphorisms. A web site by Barry Popik.


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Grits and Grunts (8/16)
Gunshine State (gun + Sunshine State) (11/6)
Hush Puppies (8/17)
Key Lime Pie (8/16)
Little Havana (Miami) & Little Havana on the Hudson (Union City, New Jersey) (8/15)
My-Yam-Me (Miami) (6/19)
New York with Palm Trees (Miami nickname) (7/10)
Screwdriver (vodka + orange juice cocktail) (7/17)
Snowbird (northern tourist) (7/29)
SoBe (South Beach) (8/6)
SoFi (South of Fifth Street) (8/6)
SoFlo (South Florida) (8/16)
Sunshine State (Florida nickname) (6/15)
Tampa: The Big Guava (4/3)
WTF (Welcome To Florida) (8/17)
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