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Guest contributor Professor Katie Day Good of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio interviews Professor Kathryn Remlinger, author of Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula, published by the University of Wisconsin Press (2017). Professor Remlinger \u2014 in addition to helpfully explaining what a \u201cYooper\u201d is! \u2014 discusses her work with linguistic identity in Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula, the methodology behind her research, the history of settlement in the region, the immigrant populations that shaped the region economically, culturally, and linguistically, and the varieties of English dialects that emerged in the region.