Blowing & Drifting

Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.

Well, Dat's Okay, Den

Finally, the "trolls" who live below the Mackinac Bridge in the Lower Peninsula are doing something worthwhile for the Upper Peninsula. A professor at Grand Valley State University is studying, and intends to write on, the U.P. dialect, which includes (besides a heavy accent) such funnities as saying "eh" at the end of a sentence, flipping around the meaning of "loan" and "borrow" (i.e., you say to someone, "I'll borrow you my truck for the weekend"), dropping certain prepositions ("I go mall"), and of course saying, "Holy Wah!" when you're impressed by something. Like a scholar bothering to study Yooperese!