Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is Not ‘Yoopie’ – Please Don’t Make it A Thing

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is a world apart from the rest of the state - and really the rest of America. It's colloquially the U.P. and the people who live there are Yoopers. However, the place is not now, nor will it ever be "Yooppie."

The disturbing term came up on Reddit recently.

Just saw this term in a book in which a Wisconsinite calls the U.P. the “Yoopie” with emphasis on the first syllable. Obviously I know “yooper” but have never heard/seen “Yoopie” to describe the peninsula. Is this a thing? This book was written by an English person so I wanted to make sure....I...had never heard this term and feel disgusted by it as you all do.

And it was a visceral response from those from the Upper Peninsula.

Ngl, I physically cringed reading this

I think you'd get your a$$ kicked for saying something like that

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And is revolves around something so simple, yet clearly so important. When someone says the term "U-P" the emphasis is on the P. The "you-pee." When spelled out "Yoopie," the natural pronunciation is "you-pee" and that is wasn't doesn't feel right.

But interestingly, and conversely, while the place is U-P with the proper emphasis on the P, when it comes to Yooper, the emphasis is opposite and on the Yoo.

So if you're from there, visit there or desire to move there, know the place you love is U-P and not Yoopie.