Hard hardwood, creolization, deviltree, and pissed-off voyageurs

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Ah, some deviltree! Just in time for Halloweeeen! 🙂 q̓ə́l-q̓əl stík:  Literally ‘hard-hard wood’. Finding this in C. Snow’s field notes with the meaning ‘oak’, I checked his sometimes interesting CJ phonetics against the Grand Ronde dictionary. Surprising… Continue reading →