I wonder if there's anyone in the UP who can actually spell them all correctly?
A long long time ago, way back on Monday, I talked about how one of the things I had to do on a very busy day was to head over to WZMQ and tape my weekly TV piece. Well, that piece dealt with the names of towns & cities in the UP; more to the point, it dealt with how many of those names are, uhm, weird. They're not spelled like they sound.
Much to the joy of those of us who live here.
So as a guide I put together the TV bit. Yes, it's (hopefully) humorous, but who knows—maybe it'll help someone. I mean, on occasion even I have to look up the intricacies of spelling “Ontonagon” or whether a certain place is spelled “Mackinac” or “Mackinaw”. And I do this for a living.
I can just imagine someone somewhere in the UP yelling into next room “Just how the (*^%#$( do you spell Tahquamenon”? Because, you know, I've felt like doing that myself.
So here you go. Hope it helps. Or, at the very least, hope it helps you realize that you're not alone. All 300,000 of us shake our heads on occasion, wondering why the Es are where they are in a word like Keweenaw.
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