Monthly Archive: May, 2015

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Lushootseed “5 cents” from US dialect English “picayune”

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Here’s where it pays to be that weird picayune breed that I belong to, the reader of dictionaries. In the 1994 dictionary of Lushootseed (Puget Sound Salish) by Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and… Continue reading →

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Getting specific about David Douglas and Chinook Jargon

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I’m not too sure that botanist David Douglas’s 1820s journal notes on early Chinook Jargon have ever been published. A few isolated words in his daily entries, to be sure, have made it into… Continue reading →