Calling dogs & calling someone a dog
In honor of our poor dogs, who have to put up with us being home all the time nowadays!
Monthly Archive: March, 2020
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Lower Chehalis ‘beads’ & Chinuk Wawa?
Stringing together a couple of speculations here…
Still more about Pickett & Jargon discoveries
First, you have Archie Binns.
What else is ENDOGENOUS to Chinuk Wawa?
This short note invites you to make suggestions to me…
Sacramento CPE: A Chinese vegetable vender
Let’s take a break to celebrate that other West Coast pidgin language…
Talking BS: p’áƛ̓aƛ̓ and “cultus”
In the 1994 Lushootseed Salish dictionary by Bates, Hess, & Hilbert, there’s a root p’áƛ’- (bound) ‘of no importance’
“The Passion Play in America”
During the zenith of Chinook Writing in British Columbia, an American Catholic magazine ran a lavish feature on the “Passion Play” that was staged in Chinuk Wawa there.
The grammar of sickness
Stay well! From a dictionary of Kamloops Chinuk Wawa that I’ve finished but haven’t yet published, here’s a very topical entry.
Piu-piu ‘skunk’ from Canadian French? or Indigenous languages? or English?
Among the varied Chinuk Wawa expressions for a ‘skunk’,* George Gibbs 1863:39 informs us of < piu-piu >.
A Chinook Jargon adverb-class marker?
Here’s a little sketch of an idea about Chinuk Wawa: