U.P. culture
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Sisu Is the Untranslatable Finnish Word for Grit That the U.P. Built Into Every Yooper
There’s no English word for it. But every U.P. kid was raised…
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The U.P. Slang That Marks a True Yooper, No Matter How Long They’ve Been Gone
You can leave the U.P., but a few of these words never…
