Just copped this Mandarin Chinese(?) Shirt for the University of Wisconsin from the official UW Madison University Bookstore.

It’s never occurred to me how transliteration makes a mishmash of place names quite to the extent this has made clear.

威斯康星州

Wēisīkāngxīng zhōu

The state of Wisconsin.

the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name for a river that runs 430 miles through the center of our state

From Wisconsin, in case the title was confusing

Link to the shirt: https://www.uwbookstore.com/merchdetail?type=6&MerchID=489536