Why is Rhode Island Called an Island When It's Not?

Why is Rhode Island Called an Island When it's Not? #shorts | The title is pretty self explanitory so I'll just leave this here!
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[awesomeocelot]

At least the actual island of Rhode Island is part of the state.

[RattifyRBLX]

I live in Rhode Island and of all my years on YouTube this is the first time I every saw a video or short or anything dedicated to Rhode Island.

[lacelessshoes]

I can’t tell you how often I’ll tell someone I’m from Rhode Island and they’ll look at me and say “oh Long Island”

[sdkz]

As a Rhode Islander, we learned that it comes the Greek island, the island of roads, in the Aegean Sea.

[porsche.x]

As a Rhode islander, I can confirm this

[IllIllIllIlIII]

Fun fact that little island is now called Aquidneck Island and consists of Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport.

[jacetrate]

Yay Rhode Island got in a video. I was convinced that the whole country didn’t know we exist

[Matthew-ioot]

Finally someone who talks about Rhode Island. No one talks about little old Rhody

[wg]

Yeah it's where dreams go to die.

[bl]

Lives around the country. Living in Southern New England isn't bad. Rush hour is about 15-20 minutes longer to get where you're going, not an hour or more, everything is closeby, even in the sticks/country. Cold winters, not much snow.
Snow here one day, gone the next, one whole side of the state is on the ocean. Never seem empty store shelves. Just have to warm up to the people, and get to know them. Best medicine in the nation is Boston, and NYC, and Little Rhody up there, with Brown University medical school. Tasty water, and plenty of it, and reasonable housing. Think I'll stay for awhile.

[Spedible]

As a rhode islander I've never searched up why it has island in it this is one of those answers you don't need or want to know

[RyebertandWhiskey]

I'm glad thus guy takes the requests of his commenters to make shorts. Example a few weeks ago I asked him to make a video why Germany and Liechenstein are technically still at war and he did it a few days later

[sneakyhotaka]

This the first time someone talking Rhode island

[ItsYaGirlMaddy]

I live in Rhode Island and this is the first time I have ever saw a video that talks about Rhode Island. Everyone forgets about us because we are the smallest state. But that’s good because nothing bad ever happens here. Like, no bomb threats or school shootings. But I still hate it here. There is so much bad people, it’s crazy.

[saltyyankee]

the word plantations was only removed a couple years ago..

[channienthusiast]

I live here, and whenever someone asks and I saw I live in Rhode Island they ask me if it's am actual island

[aidancavanaugh]

They only recently changed it to just Rhode Island. Plantation was an old word meaning settlement but the connotations outweighed the history behind the name. Also nobody can agree where the “Rhode” comes from

[KS-gftv]

Basically nothing about this video is accurate. This state was named by Dutch explorer Adrian Block. He named it "Roodt Eylandt" meaning "red island" in reference to the red clay that lined the shore. The island circled in this video is called "Acquidneck Island." And "Providence Plantations" was only removed from the State's name like a year ago.

[imjustralph]

I can confirm that this is true since I'm a Rhode Islander

[christianpeixoto]

Finally someone talks about our smallest state yet has the longest name in the US state of Rhode island Providence plantations