McMansions and Mpls

[Beverly Flanigan]

Minneapolis is getting so uppity.  It's still Nort' and Sout' Dakota, after
all.  And 'soda' may be the big-city term, but 'pop' is still used in the
hinterlands of Minnesota.

Gone from Minnesota lo these many years, but still in touch.
Beverly OLSON Flanigan

At 03:43 PM 12/11/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>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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