#happyday look at what my new keyboard does: ᑕᑭᓯᒋᓇᒋᑲᓇᑕᑦᓴᑭᓐᓂᕽ᙮ ᐊᓂᑖᑭᓐᓇᒃ ᐊᓂᕿᓂᐦᑖᓂᑲᓇᑕᑦᓴᑭᓐᓂᕽ ᒋᑲᓇᑕᑦᓴᑭᒥᓂᕽ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᓈᑲᓇᑕᑦᓴᑭᓐᓂᕽ᙮
#Ojibwemowin

I love people discovering that Hell freezes over here in Michigan, since we have a town named that and we're a fairly chilly state for how south we are.

But did you know that heaven has frozen over too? In #Ojibwemowin 'heaven' is 'ishpiming', which is something I was always told about a neighboring town but never understood until I started learning more.

That town is named Ishpeming. It's actually a pretty common town name in the region if you account for variations in how it's spelled.

I went to look for some inspiration to design #MossyFossy the Otter, who is not an actual mascot of the (nonexistent) #MossyFossils and I found this article from nearly a decade ago. It's not about cute PCB (as in #PrintedCircuitBoard ) art of otters, though. It's about river #otters (plural #nigigoog / #nigigwag in #Ojibwemowin ) suffering from Polychlorinated Biphenyls (which are banned) pollutions. https://www.daily-journal.com/sports/outdoors/otter-study-shows-pcb-pesticide-exposure/article_d0af5c70-b85a-5fdd-ad37-89a8e4756be8.html