The great Panjandrum, the Hyu Tyee, the wonderful Pooh-Bah
Disclaimer: the following was published 50 years before Donald Trump was even born.
Disclaimer: the following was published 50 years before Donald Trump was even born.
Because I deal in Linguistic Archaeology™, my readers know Pacific NW place names periodically come up here (see “15 Sous and the HBC” and such), so how about the oddity that is “Jump… Continue reading →
A report of a letter in Chinese Pidgin English…can it be found in some archive?
I’m indebted to this one correspondent of mine who’s constantly asking really good questions:
Apparently my powers of invention have been outstripped by other folks’ weird scientific uses for Chinuk Wawa.
A study in Papers of the Hymn Society of America, volume 18 (1954), reproduces from Myron Eells’s small 1889 book “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language” the following claim:
I want to keep this short & sweet: modern Nuuchahnulth preserves traces of early contact-era English.