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Old 12-26-2015, 02:47 PM
 
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I placed a request for a subforum for the Upper Peninsula in the "About Forum" If you are in favor, please drop a line of support.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/about...peninsula.html
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Old 12-26-2015, 08:03 PM
 
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A fine idea !!!

Michigan needs several more (IMO).
Northern lower (North of Clare).
Tri Cities.
Flint (maybe).
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Old 12-26-2015, 09:32 PM
 
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A fine idea !!!

Michigan needs several more (IMO).
Northern lower (North of Clare).
Tri Cities.
Flint (maybe).
I agree, but at the very minimum, the Upper Peninsula should have one. I would say Kalamazoo-Battle Creek would be the next logical one.
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Old 12-27-2015, 08:18 AM
 
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How many replies do UP related questions/topics generate?
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Old 12-27-2015, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Marquette, MI
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Yeah, support for sure. The U.P. is so different in proximity and culture to most of Michigan. In fact, Wisconson culture and Chicago money adds more flavor to our stew then lower Michigan. But the U.P. still feels an afinity to the rest of Michigan even tho we are greatly influnced by Wisconson and Chicago. None of this a bad thing.
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Old 12-28-2015, 08:28 PM
 
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How many replies do UP related questions/topics generate?
Just in the last 6 months or so, there have been 12 new threads on Marquette alone. I didn't go count other threads relating to the UP or other cities like Hougton/Hancock, Sault Sainte Marie, Munsing, Menominee, Escanaba, or Mackinac Island. I also understand that there is no point of a ghost forum. However, the UP is a distinct geographic location, and there have been many threads about it. Just seems like Michigan's forums should have one forum dedicated to the UP. It has a population larger than the MSA of some forums for other states. (example..Roanoke VA)
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Old 12-29-2015, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Metro Detroit
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I'm in support, as long as there is a sticky expressing how we decided that the phoneme -ac makes an -aw sound, because that makes no sense to me!

On a more serious note though, I'd read it now and then. I'd love to learn more about the 51st state. I can't wait to visit it next summer.
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Old 12-29-2015, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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I'm in support, as long as there is a sticky expressing how we decided that the phoneme -ac makes an -aw sound, because that makes no sense to me!
Like many other locations in Michigan (including the state itself), the name is derived from Native American languages and then translated into French and then slightly adjusted into modern English by the British.

I think in French, most consonants at the end of words are never pronounced.

Mitchimakinak (with -k pronounced) means 'turtle' in Ojibwe which is what Natives thought the island resembled. French pronounced that as Michilimackinac (with silent -c). The British knocked off 'michili' and just stated it as 'Mackinac' (keeping the silent -c). So I guess either way you pronounce it, the base word isn't in English so technically it's not incorrect either way? Or you could just go with the literal translation and call it Turtle Island.
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Old 12-29-2015, 05:15 PM
 
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Great idea! I see posts requesting info about the UP fairly often, especially in the summer/travel months.
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Old 12-29-2015, 06:56 PM
 
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Like many other locations in Michigan (including the state itself), the name is derived from Native American languages and then translated into French and then slightly adjusted into modern English by the British.

I think in French, most consonants at the end of words are never pronounced.

Mitchimakinak (with -k pronounced) means 'turtle' in Ojibwe which is what Natives thought the island resembled. French pronounced that as Michilimackinac (with silent -c). The British knocked off 'michili' and just stated it as 'Mackinac' (keeping the silent -c). So I guess either way you pronounce it, the base word isn't in English so technically it's not incorrect either way? Or you could just go with the literal translation and call it Turtle Island.
First: By all means, the 906 deserves a forum, if only for flatlanders to learn how the other 3% live, and learn about the unique beauty and feel of the UP. (I'm as troll as a troll can be, 3 1/2 miles from the Ohio line, but the eight years of summer trips to the UP are some of our best memories).

About Mackina(c/w). I once stopped at the Nebraska welcome center in Omaha, met a nice woman who talked about how beautiful Mackinac was, then said "it is MACK-in-awe, right? I confirmed she was correct, then said "Anyone in Beatrice, Norfolk or Kearney could have told you that!" *

* those NE cities are pronounced "bee-AT-riss", "NOR-fork" and "KAR-nee", respectively.
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