Re: Aspects of English Grammar

John Cowan wrote:
>
> Ph. D. scripsit:
>
> > We in the lower peninsula call the natives of the upper peninsula
> > "yoopers" (from "U.P.er") and joke about them. Since the two
> > peninsulas are connected by a huge suspension bridge, the
> > natives of the upper peninsula call those of us in the lower
> > peninsula "trolls" (because trolls always live "below the bridge"
> > in fairly tales).
>
> In the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing competition, one of the entries was
> about a U.P. Liberation Front terrorist who is setting a bomb on the
> bridge.
Back in the 1970s, there was a minor movement to get the upper
peninsula made into a separate state, to be called "Superior."
Never went very far, but one used to see people with a fake
"Superior" license plate in their car window.

--Ph. D.

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