The “AnKati Naika Tikki Whiski” song is a great way to learn “silent IT”!
As sung by Skokomish elder Henry Ruben Allen (1864-1956) several decades ago, this song quickly teaches you how to use “silent IT”. (Symbolized by Ø here.)
As sung by Skokomish elder Henry Ruben Allen (1864-1956) several decades ago, this song quickly teaches you how to use “silent IT”. (Symbolized by Ø here.)
A party held in an early Seattler’s Settler’s home on January 16, 1866 was well remembered 40 years after!
Thanks to Professor Peter Bakker for an email in 2022 that got me thinking in a new way about a seldom-researched Chinook Jargon book…
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading →
Congratulations to Agostino Pizzolato!
Neat stuff, definitely Northern Dialect.
Patl “full (of)” is almost always immediately followed by a Noun telling what something (or someone) is full of.
We’ve seen a number of ads that used Chinook Jargon. Image credit: Redbubble Also advertisements 🙂 Here’s more, thanks to our reader Alex Code. CHECHACOS and HYAS SNOW (Newcomer) … Continue reading →