Up nort der, oh yaah
This weekend, Melba and I will be heading north and a little bit east to the exotic resort getaway also known as Hayward, Wisconsin. For those of you not lucky enough to have lived in Minnesota, let me explain one of the favorite pastimes of the peeps around here.
As soon as spring takes a good hold - say the middle of April or so - Minnesotans start thinking of small weekend getaways. There's a phrase that almost everyone uses to describe where they go for those getaways:
"We're gonna go up north."
If the particular person you hear utter this phrase is from a small town outside of Minneapolis/St.Paul, you might get:
"We're goin' up north der, oh yaah"
Or if you're REALLY lucky:
"Oh yaah, we're goin' up nort der, you betcha".
Notice the lack of a finishing "h" on the north. That's key. It's pronounced just like "snort", without the "h".
I don't think I ever knew anyone who took weekend vacations "down south" (nobody goes to Iowa on purpose) or "out west" (nothing out there but open prairie). There were a rare few who went east to Wisconsin, but even they usually went northeast like Melba and I are this weekend.
For my next blog post, in the interest of equal opportunity I'll discuss a nifty little quirk that Angelenos and other Californians exhibit from time to time. I call it "Wisiganota Syndrome".
As soon as spring takes a good hold - say the middle of April or so - Minnesotans start thinking of small weekend getaways. There's a phrase that almost everyone uses to describe where they go for those getaways:
"We're gonna go up north."
If the particular person you hear utter this phrase is from a small town outside of Minneapolis/St.Paul, you might get:
"We're goin' up north der, oh yaah"
Or if you're REALLY lucky:
"Oh yaah, we're goin' up nort der, you betcha".
Notice the lack of a finishing "h" on the north. That's key. It's pronounced just like "snort", without the "h".
I don't think I ever knew anyone who took weekend vacations "down south" (nobody goes to Iowa on purpose) or "out west" (nothing out there but open prairie). There were a rare few who went east to Wisconsin, but even they usually went northeast like Melba and I are this weekend.
For my next blog post, in the interest of equal opportunity I'll discuss a nifty little quirk that Angelenos and other Californians exhibit from time to time. I call it "Wisiganota Syndrome".
posted by steve at 10:52 PM
3 Comments:
I take it then, that Alaska is over with, and we'll see none of your photos from the 50th state?
BTW, Alaska is the 49th state.
49th, 50th, whatever, it's one of the two oddball states. Why no photos? I was only joking about the Brokeback Mountain thing. What happens in Alaska stays in Alaska?
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