Let’s once again get straight to our word of the day in this mini-series.

The other day I wrote about the word “shmamuk”…

Thanks to “Chinook Jargon” group (on Facebook) member Gabriele Barra for asking a question that pointed me to this overlooked old document:

Publishing his dictionary out of Seattle in 1909, George Coombs Shaw was about the first lexicographer to start documenting Chinuk Wawa’s northern dialect.

The next morsel in our buffet of delicacies from the highly fluent Chinuk Wawa speaker George Gibbs:

A recommendation to you:

Still asking for you, my reader, to tell me if you believe there are any clear signs of stabilized pidgin / trade languages on the northern PNW Coast in the following reports…

A phrase in Jargon from Grand Ronde that I’ve been meaning to point out has real deep roots…

nayka wáwa drét háyú mási kʰapa David Gene Lewis, PhD.

There’s an obscure & obsolete Chinook Jargon word for ‘lend; borrow’ that came from “Chihalis” (Lower Chehalis Salish), said George Gibbs in 1863.