Michigan Troll

[Grant Barrett]

For what it's worth, this page of "Michigan slang" came up in my news
alerts yesterday:

http://www.easternecho.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?4527

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

On Feb 26, 2005, at 08:47, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
> As any US map will show you, there is an Upper Peninsula and a Lower
> Peninsula which make up the State of MI; many years ago a spectacular
> bridge was built to connect the two. Now those of us who live "below
> the bridge" are called trolls.
>
> Yooper - resident of the Upper Peninsula (i.e., UP, therefore
> "yooper") - humor