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 Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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