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[Scott Knitter]

I was a weird kid, remember. I resented the addition of a 'd.' Similarly I
don't like the invention of terms like Chi-Town  because of the gratuitous
change of vowel sound. To me, Chi-Town is pronounced Chee-Town and refers
to a flow of good energy as in feng shui. But a whole town of that?
On Sep 8, 2015 2:33 PM, "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> My mother, who was from Michigan, always said "Michigander." I never
> questioned it.
>
> > On Sep 8, 2015, at 1:44 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> > <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >> There is some of the same awkwardness in handling flatware,
> >> I've noticed.
> >
> > I remember arriving in Michigan in first grade (we moved in midyear, I
> > think...quite disruptive) to find that Michigan kids mostly used a
> > fork like a shovel, clutching it in their fists. Even back then I
> > thought we Wisconsinites must have been ahead of the Michiganians.
> > (Hm...I just noticed that the official newspaper term for someone from
> > Michigan isn't known to Microsoft's spelling checker, but
> > "Michigander" is. I've never understood where that 'd' comes from and
> > never liked it.)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>