What is eh Yooper 3.24.14

[@Lauraah37]

They are most certainly not "wanna be Canadians." Many yoopers are the descendants of Finnish immigrants, which is where the accent comes from. My Great, Great Grandparents were Finn immigrants and settled in the U.P. in 1895. A huge chunk of that family moved down to Detroit when the automotive industry took off... that's how I got here, but I'll always have a soft spot for da U.P.! ❤️ Gotta love Yoopers.

[@yoopercouple3971]

I completely agree! Finns still make up the vast majority of the population here, especially around Marquette and the Keweenaw Peninsula area. Listen to the accent of a Finnish person in Finland (one who speaks English) and compare that accent to a Yooper's accent. They're identical. By the way, my wife and kids and I love the U.P., too. We moved up here (to the Marquette area) from Florida a little over three years ago and have never been happier. In our opinion, this is the greatest place on earth. And Yoopers are truly some of the nicest people anybody could ever hope to know.

[@heatherlindquist1899]

There is a definite Cornish influence in the accent too

[@ImForwardlook]

Just when I was going to write that a Finn should automatically be considered to be a Yooper...

[@servicarrider]

1/2 Croatian 1/2 Norwegian here. Both sets of grandparents immigrated.

[@isaacfrancis5721]

Where it came from doesn't really matter, if they sound like Canadians they sound like Canadians.

[@Deadi12]

Its funny the Yoopers have less of an accent than the news reporter.

[@amberpeterson7016]

shes a yooper too

[@audreykasmiski7919]

JAMIE K DEER CAMP

[@Hipster_Saturn]

The way she pronounces sauna is the right way! Finnish roots

[@jjm152]

I'm from Michigan originally and the upper peninsula was largely settled by finnish farmers while the lower peninsula was mostly settled by german farmers. It's a weird combination.

[@michaelleon7643]

"Actual native americans" like we are some kind of fairy tale..smh

[@dsmith7844]

We're just happy people! Happy to live here, happy to have our own little world, happy to work hard and raise our kids in a safe environment and happy to be left alone!

[@joeschmo9838]

Ain't gonna happen, once those trolls taste the pasties, they're hooked for life :D

[@user-hm1jp9no3h]

Joe Schmo you’re right

[@AlexandertheGreat99]

Bullsh!t. I lived in that he!!hole over three decades. Pure misery.

[@bittlesthecookieakacaitcat8798]

Joe Schmo pasties are really good though ngl

[@karisalarsenlknorthstarran2667]

LOL I think the news gal has a thick accent! The Yoopers sound normal to me. Maybe because of my Minnesota lift!

[@Punkpsychobilly]

Hey dere! I’m from northern IL and people always ask me if I’m from Canada. Haha. My gramma was born from Finnish immigrants in northern Minnesota... the rest of my family is from northern Illinois, and since I moved to Florida in 2010, people have consistently mistaken me for a Canadian. I have a very heavy Great Lakes accent, even by my own family standards, and I’m damn proud. Bless da UP, eh?

[@feiliormia]

Ope lemme squeeze right past ya

[@duality1677]

I hate the people who are like “you have to be born here to be a yooper!” I’ve been living here since I was two, I’m a yooper and I don’t care what anyone says.

[@vickiwaatti1076]

My father grew up in PA - he has lived here since he was 17 (came up in the coast guard) he has lived here longer than anywhere else - he is a Yooper.

[@Marcus-sk2xf]

You’re a transplant! XD

[@oldman9843]

What do yoopers eat ? Pasties , smoked fish and deer , don't ya know , eh .

[@lazyrrr2411]

... Tater Tots !

[@pr9039]

My buddy perfectly set the Yooper Accent's only necessary line: Monck: "Dairy payed da rose, eh?" Monck's Troll old lady: "...Dairy paid WHO?!" Me cracking up: "Haha! Yah buddy, they repaved th'roads last week, finishin' yesterday, done this morning, yeah!" Monck's old lady: "What the Hell are you guys talking about?!?!" Me a little more enunciating: "They repaved the roads. Working on them last week, finished them up yesterday, opened'em up this morning." She busts out laughing, we crack open the whiskey and some beers 'cuz my old lady was picking up the kids on her way home and dropping them off at their friend's for a sleepover in a couple hours and we were all gonna have a few drinks and have a good time. Monck's old lady's inability to decipher the Yooper Dialect set a good tone for that evening, too.

[@occipitalneuralgia2339]

The Madrummer ok, Minnesota and North Dakota the same as UP so are they all hoppers? The movie Fargo, is a prime example. Also what is “the Soo?” The south? How little of far south?

[@hilaskiii9213]

I was raised in the U.P. Til the age of 12, I was born under the bridge....thus making me a troll

[@stacys8729]

Born yooper, left, so my son is a transplant. I'm living elsewhere now so call myself a displaced yooper. Only truly frustrating thing is trying to find a good paying job, $60k+, outside of da mines. I hope to return. / I like this story, felt she did a pretty good job, tho would have been nice if she mentioned the mines. And now that i'm gone, she is right- the yooper urge to smile and laugh out loud is something i sorely miss. ... And real saunas, miss them a whole lot.

[@candydavis4277]

Not for me. I’ll stay warm year round in southern Arizona 😎

[@servicarrider]

Marquette Michigan...Yooper country.

[@unitedzone6445]

Im by mass city and Greenland

[@erbewayne6868]

finn's! Country,eh.

[@jimlimbach6629]

Dammit Daddy was a Keweenawer and Mom was born in Hurley, eh. Now dat gives me creds and genes to be more den a transplant, hey! I love living in Ironwood. Yah hey! 300 inches of snow next year? Bring it on Big Lake!

[@pr9039]

...Ironwood, eh? Right on, but man, you must be hurting in the summer, nothing to do there haha! Don't worry, there's always Paradise, or just a bit South you can take a trip to Hell, right? Haha

[@joeschmo9838]

Go visit the trolls some time, I know the money knows how to party in the summer ;)

[@kalitraczyk840]

The Madrummer is there ever anything to do in Ironwood?😂

[@Mikevdog]

I was born and lived in the Soo for my first 6 years, but my whole family still lives there year-round. It's just too cold for me and tough to make a good living up there.

[@joystick396]

The entire state of Michigan is heavily influenced by Canada

[@fiveninegarage]

Ashley Scott some of the northern lower peninsula is the same way

[@knivesout886]

We love Canada and Canada loves us.

[@jrodagormykid9063]

The U.P. is hardly influenced by Canada, we're influenced by Finland, Scandinavia, Germany, France and in some parts, Italy.

[@steveintentionallyleftblan3398]

@@jrodagormykid9063 Pretty much, yeah.

[@jrodagormykid9063]

From the 49862, born and raised in the U.P. Finnish/Swedish American living on Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

[@susangrande8142]

420 jrzl 906 it’s a gloriously beautiful piece of God’s creation there! 😍

[@mikelammi3079]

i was born yooper grew up there after high school joined the navy after i got out i came back and worked in the painesdale mine as a raise miner the mine closed i married a trimountain girl and went back in the navy where i did 20 years but i am a still a yooper and proud of it and am a proud finlander also

[@yoopercouple3971]

I moved to the Marquette area from Florida a little over three years ago and my wife and kids and I have never been happier. I have a friend here who's got a brother in Painesdale. He's taken me out on his boat a couple times. Even got to hit the "Big Lake" on one of those occasions. I prefer ice fishing, but I'm never going to turn down a chance to get out on Superior on a boat, either. In my opinion, Yoopers are the greatest people on the planet.

[@396Jym]

This sounds similar to the dialect in the movie "Fargo"

[@preston5104]

James Marasco its sinilar to the accent in Fargo, ND irl

[@tristannolan85]

the accent is basicly canadian..i live five minutes from canada and i talk just like them :p

[@mattsmith9479]

Let me guess you live in the Soo right? It might be basically Canadian there, but you go into other areas and it's definitely not Canadian (except for eh)

[@tristannolan85]

ya it changes quite a bit canada isnt exactly a small country

[@Mikevdog]

tristannolan85 I;m from the Soo, but call Les Cheneaux home although I only visit these days.

[@UstashaMe84]

tristannolan85 Sound very Canadian.

[@pr9039]

................no. (And fuck you Matt, I'm from da soo. Yer just mad y'don't have a Walmart, eh?) Yooper accent is mainly from Finns, way less from French. Arret? The fuck, y'mean alright? 'Cuz that's how you stupid froggies treat those signs! "Alright, I'm'a go right through!" >_< Red means stop, not yield, bud. Unless there's ice, then it means stop way early if you can't afford to put some snow tires on and don't have a car you can chain up the tires on. Also, Canadian sounds like everything is a question. "Oh, that's fun!...?" "It's okay, I got this....?" But Yoopers make it known how they feel. We can say, "Yes, sir," and make it damn well known we're saying, "Fuuuuck YOU." Ask anyone in the 1437th, bud.

[@autumntedford7148]

the lower part of Michigan can't really tell that us lower Michigan's have an accent.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

0:24 that's one of the greatest signs ever.

[@yeyulius9051]

I'm reaaaally surprised, I'm from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan-

[@anton1949]

And its a crick... not a creek.

[@birdsofafeather1637]

You are absolutely correct on that one!!

[@pr9039]

You're a Yooper if you're a fuckin' Yooper. If you wanna be there, if you love it, if you say it's where you're from and you can outdrink anyone who's not from there and you've done the polarebear olympics, you're a Yooper. If you've seen people die from having a heart attack and spearing the poor onwatchers at the I-500, you're a Yooper. And if you can ACTUALLY say 'eh,' (not like that horrid "IGH!" at the end of this, cute as it was), then you might be a Yooper (or a Canuck).

[@joshowen17]

RedLetterMedia brought me here.

[@rrider3946]

Is the seven year rule waived for people from Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota?

[@OhGodThe]

God, that newscaster really butchered that piece. "Hike Lunteh?" Eh! at the end made me wince. And, yea, you can't just appear in the Upper Peninsula from down South in your 30's and proclaim you're a Yooper. Why would they want to?? There's something about being born and raised in the remote woods of a mining ghost town, steeping in that weird vaguely backwards culture (without knowing how weird it actually is) that is essential to defining a persons personality.

[@albundy7239]

Kaleb Smith my parents are yoooers I’m a troll but am considered a adopted yooper

[@kalitraczyk840]

I grew up in Ironwood and I don’t really do any of it😂

[@graciep1398]

Most people here don’t actually say eh after everything we say

[@AlexandertheGreat99]

We yoosta back in da day, yous guys...

[@gjproductions8365]

I live in southern Michigan and a lot of people in Michigan talk like were from the U.P but also like a mix of Chicago too, we all say our Us and Ws and certain words different

[@aschiavo80]

Fabulous video!

[@joelaichner3025]

Kingsford / Iron Mountain , twin Cities , Home of Henry Ford

[@jurgiz]

the 20 year old YOOPER

[@ErrolFOFoor]

Just how many 'R' sound are in the word Ishpeming?

[@isaach1518]

Being a yooper I believe anyone can become a yooper with the 7 winter rule

[@wdn4l535]

From SE MI and came up to UP last week and it was brutal. No thanks lol

[@rompinroger8816]

Alex H been sno sheening up there since 69, that make me a yooper, eh

[@cameronr7223]

I have never heard someone pronounce it sowna

[@calendarpage]

My late husband's people are Finnish from the UP on his mother's side. He went up to the family farm (where they had their own sauna) every summer growing up. Most of his folks up there still spoke some level of Finnish. He said 'sowna,' which I'm sure he picked up from his Finnish-speaking relatives. I'd never heard it pronounced that way until I met him, but that is the correct way.

[@papi_dummy]

I'm from way down in grand rapids but I live in Helsinki now and yes, they tend to prefer the Finnish pronunciation. a few of them will use the english pronunciation when speaking english, but at this point I've heard sowna so much that sawna sounds weird. the real challenge is saying löyly 😂

[@barrypowell829]

lol we lived 42 winters in the UP eh?

[@bittlesthecookieakacaitcat8798]

I wasn’t born here but I was raised as a yooper the reason I wasn’t born here was because my mom wasn’t supposed to have babies she had help syndrome and another thing I was supposed to be born on September 26 2004 but the coincidence to that is of my grandmother’s cousin or my moms cousin I don’t remember who’s cousin but it did come from my moms side of the family but anyways the cousin took an ancestor test and it went all the way back to Daniel Boone and Daniel Boone died from natural causes in September 26 1820 but instead I ended up on June same year same day it’s a coincidence in my book but it’s quite fun to hear about your past but anyways I weigh 1 lb 6 oz 13 week premie 27 weeks old I think i basically was a stick of butter a half a stick of butter and a small box of something I can’t remember and if I was born in the up I probably won’t survive witch was why I was born in Green Bay but I call myself a yooper because I was raised in the up I wasn’t those people that lived in one part of there childhood and went to upper Michigan I was raised here and I’m proud that I’m a yooper and I say that just because you were born in one place and the rest of your life in the other dose not mean you aren’t a yooper I say that because if you were born from a yooper you have there genes so what makes you a yooper in my opinion is if you are born from one and raised by one

[@birdsofafeather1637]

I was born in GB too!!

[@bittlesthecookieakacaitcat8798]

@@birdsofafeather1637 cool

[@maxkol4380]

I live in an urban disaster called Seattle. UP looks pretty good to me. I'd need a snow machine and a jet ski.

[@SpaceJam96]

Reminds me a lot of Minnesota

[@Big_John_C]

Without all the diaperheads!

[@anton1949]

Da UP.

[@sicsempertyrannis9024]

What's dis all aboot 'eh?

[@E-A-Z-Y]

Americans that know it’s pasties and not fucking ‘hand pies’... You son of a bitch, I’m in

[@isaiah3127]

3:38

[@bucksatanII]

What are pasties?

[@MermaidsAreNice]

Portable meat pies, I think

[@susangrande8142]

MermaidsAreNice yes, hand-held meat pies. Think of turnovers made with dough, like pizza dough, with ground beef, onions, and cabbage inside. Yumm!!! 🤤

[@Icutmetal]

Ian .M U.P. pot pies.

[@ImForwardlook]

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[@joeschmo9838]

Fuck the cold but I'll take all the pasties I can get

[@AlexandertheGreat99]

What TF? What a strange accent the news reporter has! And her eh at the end was all wrong!

[@9ZERO6]

Nah. Yoopers do not speak like a knock-off Canadian. Never heard a Yooper say boat like that. Lol. And it it most definently sownah not sauna. Smh. And not all Yoopers were born in the U.P.! Plenty of folks were born there and were raised way downstate or in another state completely. The U.P. would have died without transplants over the last 30 years.

[@davidekelman5715]

100

[@Tounushi]

It's almost like looking at footage from the fatherland.

[@southpawhammer8644]

I'm a Michigander not a foreigner LoL.

[@quaqstar]

#WannabeCanadians

[@pr9039]

HAH! Fuck you, Canuck, we don't wanna forget how to drive, hop the border just to pick up eggs, milk, bread and gas by the truckload, and drive 10mph below the posted limit. Take off, eh?

[@parallelpinkparakeet]

No