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Right, maple syrup goes back to colonial times, and we still make enough in Michigan that with a little effort you can always buy locally produced. At least so
by colomon 11y ago
Right, maple syrup goes back to colonial times, and we still make enough in Michigan that with a little effort you can always buy locally produced.
At least some Michiganders say "eh", too -- my impression is it is especially common in the UP. It's not at all surprising, the border here has been pretty porous for centuries. When I was a kid, we'd have to cross over to Canada for Chinese food or hard-packed ice cream cones...
- jghn 11y agoI deal with a lot of folks from very northern New England and NY and I find they usually have some canadianisms in their speech pattern. As you say it's not surprising, it's not like accents stop on a dime when a border is reached
- maxerickson 11y agoI grew up in the UP, but never picked up a strong accent (my parents had moved there). Visiting rural Ontario was a quite amusing experience, the use of eh in the UP is occasional and often ironic, in the area I visited, it was punctuation.