Damn cold, damn hot
Another of our occasional looks at another West Coast pidgin language…
Monthly Archive: May, 2019
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Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in the “Kalapuya Texts” (part 2: More CW words)
Part 2: MORE CHINOOK JARGON WORDS: In part 1 of this mini-series, we saw the list put together by Melville Jacobs of the Chinuk Wawa words he noticed being used in K’alapuyan languages… Continue reading
Is ‘naked’ in Upper Chehalis part-Chinuk Wawa?
Uncovering another stealth loan that streaked past previous researchers…
Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in the “Kalapuya Texts” (part 1)
I’m starting another mini-series, making the case that there’s much, much more Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in a classic collection of “Kalapuya Texts”.
Saibashi, sasquatch, Toisan, BC
For several years, I’ve been wanting to write more about saibashi…
Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 3)
Shifting to quite common species, we learn on page 221 of the mid-1850s railroad survey about the Franklin’s grouse…
“Skukum makmak” ad
From an extremely obscure little Chinuk Wawa newspaper…
Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 2)
I’ve started a mini-series on previously obscure animals and species names in the 1850s “Reports of Explorations…” for a railroad line across the Northwest.
Used boots ad
Did you know? Want ads were a thing, in the earliest days of Chinuk Wawa literacy…