For those of you that have twitter you need to check out Andy Fales. He has been lighting up the Bison after that loss to UNI. Been one light spot with what was a very rough day.
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Before the ISU-NDSU game he did that segment of What's Bugging Andy, in obvious jest, where he made fun of the state of North Dakota using the exact same jokes you could make for Iowa too. A bunch of NDSU fans got butthurt and tweeted nasty stuff at him after it. Now Andy takes any shot he can to get under their skin again
Andy also picked Minnesota and Kansas to win and the rest of the WHO sports dept had Iowa and ISO picked to win!!
NDSU fans have completely brought this on themselves. They are easily one of the most arrogant and annoying fan bases in the country and that's why he is mocking them because it's the same thing out of them every year. They talk about how great it is being from North Dakota then throw major hate towards every other state (see Lakesbison). If they win then ya always have to hear how they would still dominate in a power conference. However with the loss of Craig Bohl (former head coach now in Wyoming) this may just bring em back down to reality. Time will tell but there would be nothing more satifying then to see the Bizzon become the 2nd best team in their own state (behind UND) and watch them go back to irrelevancy. Bottom line is their fans are very hateful rather than grateful.
Anybody know if bizen is the way that people refer to the animal up there? I thought it was just a quirk of that particular school but then I started noticing a guy on Minnesota Public Radio who refers to the shaggy plains grazing animal as bizen. I do see that most dictionaries have the z in an alternate pronounciation.
Bison comes from a similar French word, and the middle consonant is pronounced with the "z" sound in French. When the area was being settled (and prior), there were French fur traders in that part of ND and MN, so they may have influenced the local pronunciation.
True. However I live in a very French part of MN first founded by Pierre Bottineau, with Catholic Churches like St. Louis and St. Vincent de Paul and I don't hear that pronounciation around here. Not to mention living in Hennepin County which is named after Father Louis Hennepin who was a French national born in what is now a French speaking region in Belgium. He was a companion of La Salle.
But I guess up north here we do have the town of Bessemer, MI (up dere in da UP) which I understand is pronounced Bezmer.
Not really that important, I just thought I would ask if anyone is from or lives up in ND who could tell me for sure.
Well...I am from ND. My dad went to NDSU (it was NDSC at the time). He called them Bizon, and my aunts and uncles from Fargo called them Bizon, so that's what I went with. Probably a word that should be added to that dialect test website that was floating around awhile back...
Thanks, that is what I was looking for. I didn't know that detail. I appreciate it.