Yes, you are mispronouncing the word "sauna." No, you shouldn't ask that person why they "talk so weird." There are plenty of things you are saying to Yoopers that you just shouldn't say. There is ...

Opening a package in 2011, an editor at Merriam-Webster slowly realized what it contained — a bribe. What she didn’t know: The briber was a county prosecutor. The parcel contained a keychain, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...