Damn cold, damn hot
Another of our occasional looks at another West Coast pidgin language…
Another of our occasional looks at another West Coast pidgin language…
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 →
Uncovering another stealth loan that streaked past previous researchers…
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”.
For several years, I’ve been wanting to write more about saibashi…
Shifting to quite common species, we learn on page 221 of the mid-1850s railroad survey about the Franklin’s grouse…
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.
Did you know? Want ads were a thing, in the earliest days of Chinuk Wawa literacy…