The Upper Peninsula of Michigan got a nod from the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster today.

In its daily Word of the Day post, the historic dictionary and thesaurus publisher named “Yooper” as the word of the day for Sept. 16, 2019.

“Yoopers have been saying both [Yooper and U.P.] out loud now for about 40 years, but it’s only in recent years that those beyond the U.P. and its geographical neighbors have begun to encounter Yooper in use,” the post said.

Indeed, it was only five years ago that “Yooper” was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, thanks to one particularly determined Yooper’s 12-year-long letter-writing campaign that began after being challenged by a friend for using the word in Scrabble.

So, will the Yooper lingo for Lower Peninsula dwellers make Word of the Day someday, too? Probably not anytime soon, according to the post.

“Yoopers refer to people who live in the Lower Peninsula as trolls (they live ‘under’ the Mackinac Bridge, after all), but that nickname is still at this point too much of a regionalism to qualify for entry in our dictionaries,” the post said.