The hoary anecdote of the Spotted Tails
Newspapers have a custom of printing stories from sources far away. In the 21st century, that’s because they get so much from online sources. In the 20th, it was wire services like AP… Continue reading
Monthly Archive: May, 2013
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Soapology and washology velly chep
Chinese Pidgin English in the Northwest language mix. It makes another appearance in stereotyped Chinese-laundry form in this ad: SOAPOLOGY and WASH OLOGY Velly Chep WASHTUBS WASHBOARDS BLUEING SOAP WASHING POWDER AMMONIA BORAX… Continue reading
1800s slang words from Barkerville, BC
Somebody asked about “1800s slang words from Barkerville, BC“. That’s a legitimate language-contact question. Barkerville, for its whole existence as a real town, was a new community that was populated by people from… Continue reading
Fort Vancouver mobile app
A key venue in the history of Chinook Jargon, the fur trade and the Pacific Northwest now has “an app for that”: Fort Vancouver Mobile. It looks promising! I quote: The Fort Vancouver Mobile… Continue reading
CHINOOK BOOK: El Comancho would like your style, dudes
There’s a progressive coupon-book company in the West who go by “Chinook Book“. The story of that name is an interesting historical tie-in… Our Purpose The original Chinook Book was published in Seattle… Continue reading
Shit’s Chinook, chittim ain’t
I keep noticing odd-smelling claims around the Internet that “chittim” is a word from Chinook Jargon. I haven’t found proof. I think it ain’t. Chittim (or chittem or chittam) is said to be… Continue reading
Bone River, by Megan Chance
An interesting kind of literature now added to the Chinook Jargon archive is the audiobook–for example Megan Chance’s “Bone River”. Listen to a sample, read by well-known narrator and voiceover artist Amy Rubinate.… Continue reading
Video: The Chinook Jargon we never knew…but will!
This talk was fun to give! “The Chinook Jargon We Never Knew–But Will“ David Robertson speaks at Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon, April 3rd, 2013.
Mayne 1862: Chinook’ll get you to Yale, French to Kamloops
Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: An Account of Their Forests, Rivers, Coasts, Gold Fields and Resources for Colonisation By Richard C. Mayne. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1862. More or less a… Continue reading
Clive “Zelig” Phillipps-Wolley
Clive Phillipps-Wolley, whose fictional story involving CJ in BC I blogged about just a couple days back, seems to turn up everywhere once you start noticing him. Like Bert the Muppet in pro-Bin… Continue reading