ISHPEMING — These hunters are a bunch of dummies. One guy's already nodded off at the card table with a beer bottle still in his hand. His buddy is laid out on the couch in his long johns, taking a ...

Michigan was buzzing last week with the news that the word Yooper is going to be included in the new edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary this spring. Michigan was buzzing last week with ...

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Da “Yoopers” up dere in da U.P., Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, have hit it big with inclusion of their nickname in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the company’s free online database. The ...

When I was a kid, we’d make the 7-hour drive north to spend Easter with my mom’s family in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. My parents own a cabin about 10 miles inland from Pictured Rocks National ...

Merriam-Webster announced the newest additions to its hallowed tome Monday, as over 150 words are joining their widely used Collegiate Dictionary. The new words of note include examples of how we talk ...

Yoopers were excited that they made the dictionary. It's too bad people won't learn the right way to pronounce their nickname. As we noted Monday, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has added ...

A Yooper — a resident of the upper Peninsula of Michigan — is one of the 150 words added to the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Many of the new words stem from our digital ...

ESCANABA, Mich. (WWJ) - It took more than 10 years to make it happen, but a man from Escanaba in the Upper Peninsula has finally convinced the people from Merriam-Webster to include the word "yooper" ...