[Magdalen] Homing Pigeons.

[Scott Knitter]

I experienced some of that during my year in Traverse City, in
northwestern Lower Michigan. There were lots of Finnish-Americans and
even some Finnish exchange students in my German classes. Maki was a
fairly common name, and also lots of Juntonens and maybe some
Ronkainens (Hi, Lynn!). Lots of -la names, too (Sikkila, Rutila). But
I'm sure I didn't hear the Upper Michigan dialects in all their
variety...a few hundred miles to go from TC to the UP.

The ELCA (but LCA at the time) Lutheran church I belonged to up there
seemed to have a lot of Swedish names among its members. I think it
started as a Swedish-speaking church of immigrants. Not sure whether
there was also a Finnish one or not.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> Did you encounter much the "UPer English" from the UP of
> Michigan?  It's apparently tinged with Finnish.  We had  some
> of that in my home town.  My best friend had some of it (last
> name Maki).  He and his entire family spoke Finnish.




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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA