The North
See also: Inland Northern American English and North Central American English- braht or brat - bratwurst
- breezeway (widespread) - a hallway connecting two buildings
- bubbler (esp. Wisconsin and the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys) - a water fountain
- clout (originally Chicago, now widespread) - political influence
- davenport (widespread) - a sofa, or couch
- euchre (throughout the North) - card game similar to spades
- fridge (throughout North and West) - refrigerator
- hot dish (esp. Minnesota) - a simple entree cooked in a single dish, related to casserole
- paczki (in Polish settlement areas, esp. Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin) - a jelly donut
- pop (widespread in North and West) - a soft drink, carbonated soda
- sack (Southern Ohio) - a bag at a grocery store
- soda (parts of Wisconsin) - soft drink
- toboggan (South Eastern Ohio and Central Kentucky) - a ski cap
- Yooper (Michigan) - people who reside in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Famous quotes containing the word north:
“By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,
Lonely from the beginning of time until now!
Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.”
—Li Po (701–762)
“I know no East or West, North or South, when it comes to my class fighting the battle for justice. If it is my fortune to live to see the industrial chain broken from every workingman’s child in America, and if then there is one black child in Africa in bondage, there shall I go.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)