Place Names and Enregistered Identity of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Abstract

A clever reward system for frequent catalogue shoppers of Zingerman’s – a renowned delicatessen in Ann Arbor, Michigan – uses Michigan place names to indicate spending and reward levels. In favoring those of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP), the item participates in the process of enregistering UP dialect.

Keywords

• Tolkien
• invented languages
• character names
• phonoprint
• author identification
• fiction