'Yooper' added to Merriam-Webster!

[Scooby_Brew]

'Yooper' added to Merriam-Webster thanks to Upper Peninsula man's 12-year effort: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/03/yooper_to_be_added_to_merriam-.html
What's up Yooper?

 

[Hello]

That is cute.

 

[passedpawn]

haha! We've got a member here with that name I think.

 

[Scooby_Brew]

He'd send her documentation of use of "yooper," such as Stephen King's "Duma Key," which mentions the term, and references of well-known yoopers, including Tom Izzo and Steve Mariucci.

Oh yeah, and don't forget about our Yooper!

 

[unionrdr]

Finally being immortalized! I hope she doesn't get a swelled head over this...

 

[TheZymurgist]

haha! We've got a member here with that name I think.

We do? Never heard of her. Or him, as the case may be...

No one outside of a very particular 20 mile radius has ever or will every hear this word used in every day language. There's a reason it took 12 years to have it added to the dictionary. :cross:

 

[LandoLincoln]

When I become Ruler of America, the Upper Peninsula will become part of Wisconsin and the Michiganders can just SUCK IT IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT. I SWEAR TO GOD, I'LL GIVE YOUR WHOLE STATE TO INDIANA IF YOU DON'T SHUT YOUR PIE-HOLES.

 

[Yooper]

"................Documentation of use of "yooper," such as Stephen King's "Duma Key," which mentions the term, and references of well-known yoopers, including Tom Izzo and Steve Mariucci."

Tom and Steve are from nearby- nice guys with nice families. They went to school together, and have made sure to endow the high school and added great facilities.

I don't know any other "famous" Yoopers. The only thing that really impresses me is that Ernest Hemingway, an avid fisherman, hung out here in the Eastern UP for fishing and wrote a book about "The Two-Hearted River".

There are two kinds of people in Michigan- Yoopers and Trolls.

 

[knyland]

Son was born in petoski so hes a fudgy but we brought him back to the UP 24 hours after birth. He is a yooper through and through.

 

[Homercidal]

Man, I'm craving some Cudighi right now!

 

[AnOldUR]

I'll go with yabber

yooper:
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1.yelper
2.opera
3.poor
4.yabber
5.payer
6.eyebar
7.Boyer

 

[Homercidal]

I'll go with yabber

Try to take away her beer!

Yelper becomes more fitting.