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:
“The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“I felt that he, a prisoner in the midst of his enemies and under the sentence of death, if consulted as to his next step or resource, could answer more wisely than all his countrymen beside. He best understood his position; he contemplated it most calmly. Comparatively, all other men, North and South, were beside themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)