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U.P. culture

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Jul 27, 20264 min read

Every New Year’s Day, a U.P. University Tells the World Which Words to Stop Using. It Started as a Party Joke in 1975.

The LSSU Banished Words List has run every January 1 since 1976. A PR man who used to work in newspapers knew exactly why that date would work, and it has for fifty years.

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Jul 27, 20264 min read

A Scrabble Loss Cost One Man 10 Years of Letter-Writing. He Got “Yooper” Into the Dictionary — and They Botched the Entry.

The Yooper definition entered Merriam-Webster in 2014 after a Delta County prosecutor lost a Scrabble challenge and spent a decade mailing proof...

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Jul 10, 20264 min read

In the U.P., Finnish Families Built the Sauna Before They Built the House

Finnish immigrants in the U.P. often built the sauna before the house and lived in it while they built everything else. Inside...

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