McMansions

[Dan Goodman]

Tom Kysilko wrote:

> At 12/10/2003 11:46 AM -0500, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:
>
>>Does every region have <starter mansion>?
>
> The term I hear in MN is 'starter castle'.
>
I haven't heard any term for it, because it hasn't come up in any
conversation I remember.  What I've read in the Southwest Journal (which
covers Southwest Minneapolis) is "McMansion,"   I think.

So long as we're on Minnesota terms:

1) "Soda" seems to be replacing "pop".   I no longer have to remember to
say "pop" instead of "soda".

2)  In semi-popular books on American dialects, I've seen references to
the term "boulevard strip" for the vegetated strip between street and
sidewalk.  The current term is "boulevard".   I wonder when that
changeover was complete.

3) A while ago, the City of Minneapolis officially decreed that
"Nordeast Minneapolis (aka "Nordeast") should be called "Northeast
Minneapolis."   Rationale:  The old term was a slur against Scandinavian
immigrants and their descendants.

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