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One early frontier town in California combined 2 pidgin languages in its name…
Daily Archive: October 7, 2020
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Chemuck compendium
Here’s a sampler of occurrences I’ve found of a common frontier-era California pidgin Spanish/English/Chinuk Wawa word for ‘food’…
1912 [circa 1892]: RL Stevenson, Chinuk Wawa, & Eyaks: A tall tale or true?
Evaluate for yourself how substantial the connection between the famous adventure-story writer and our Jargon is…