Yooper - plus, A Tasty Guide to the Parts of a Fruit

[Merriam-Webster]( WORD OF THE DAY September 16, 2019 Yooper [Audio pronunciation]( noun | YOO-per Definition : a native or resident of the [Upper Peninsula]( of Michigan — used as a nickname Scroll down for more about Yooper TRENDING NOW: [stymie]( [what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander]( [prorogue]( [the]( [SEE ALL [>]]( PEOPLE ARE READING [A Tasty Guide to the Parts of a Fruit]( [The Trick to Choosing 'Pawn Off' or 'Palm Off']( [The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 9/13/19]( [A Guide to Using Colons]( WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE [Musical Words Quiz]( A quiz in common time. [PLAY NOW]( Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try! [TAKE ME THERE [>]]( Did You Know? The word Yooper comes from the common nickname of Michigan's Upper Peninsula—the "U.P."—and the etymology requires the same follow-up question that a challenging joke does: "Get it?" If you're not there yet, try saying them both out loud: Yooper, U.P. Yoopers have been saying both out loud now for about 40 years, but it's only in recent years that those beyond the U.P. and its geographical neighbors have begun to encounter Yooper in use. Yoopers refer to people who live in the Lower Peninsula as trolls (they live "under" the Mackinac Bridge, after all), but that nickname is still at this point too much of a [regionalism]( to qualify for entry in our dictionaries. Examples of YOOPER "The district has always elected Yoopers to represent them in Congress, rather than someone from the lower peninsula like Morgan." — [Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News, 6 Nov. 2018]( "Mezydlo and Turnquist live in the Upper Peninsula community of Mohawk, which is about 25 miles south of Copper Harbor, the northernmost tip of the U.P.'s remote Keweenaw Peninsula. The region is known for having notoriously long, snowy winters—but snow lingering through July? Shocking, even for a lifelong Yooper like Turnquist." — [Emily Bingham, MLive.com, 26 July 2019]( Test Your Vocabulary Unscramble the letters to create a word for a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas: SISUTMH. [VIEW THE ANSWER [>]]( MORE WORD FUN: [WORD GAMES [>]]( [TRENDING NOW [>]]( [WORDS AT PLAY [>]]( FOLLOW US: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [YouTube]( [Instagram]( SHARE: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [View this email in a web browser]( You are receiving this email because you opted in to receive Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day. [Unsubscribe from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day]( [Manage your subscription settings]( Merriam-Webster, Inc. 47 Federal Street, P.O. Box 281 Springfield, MA, 01102, USA [www.merriam-webster.com]( | [Privacy Policy]( © 2019 by Merriam-Webster, Inc.