Ypsi: Strange Name

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Writing in her blog “In My Dreams I Can Talk,” a woman from Texas who’s learning sign language describes encountering an unfamiliar word while watching a video of someone finger-spelling: “Example number 23 showed a man telling where his mother lived. I tried and tried and tried to figure out what in the world this man was spelling. For the life of me, I just COULD NOT figure out where this guy’s mother lived… Luckily, after my nine millionth attempt to figure out the city name, the lab assistant told me. It was Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti? Where in the world? The lab assistant had no idea where this city was either. I wrote the name down and then decided to look it up on the computer when I got home. Imagine my surprise when I googled Ypsilanti and found out it is in Michigan and is actually very important in automotive history! ” [Source]