Crowdsourcing challenge: More Chinook Jargon archival audio?
My readers have been known to come up with great responses when I challenge them…
Monthly Archive: September, 2021
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Earliest, best evidence of the Alaskan phrase “skookum paper”
A phrase I learned from doing research in Alaska is “skookum paper”.
1857 West Coast Chinese Pidgin English: Dr. Lola of Sutterville
On the subject of Americans’ familiarity with Chinese Pidgin English, I was struck that the following newspaper piece only bothers to explain one word.
Kamloops hymns “testify” to English loans
The most recent English-language loans into BC Chinook Jargon, as odd and casual as they may sound to ear that are used to traditional (southern-dialect) CJ, are the normal way to express things… Continue reading
1788: Meares in the Nootka zone, and the limitations of proto-Nootka Jargon
A hat tip to Dr. Peter Bakker for nudging me to more fully explore British maritime fur-trader John Meares’ journals…
Elma, WA: Preacher could speak in tongues, not in Chinook!
This anecdote puts me in mind of the skeptic who tested a psychic by giving him questions in Chinook š
Is pchiĢxĢ£ ‘green’ related to tipsu ‘leaf’?
This is the first article idea that ever came to me in a dream…
WJ Samarin “Chinook Jargon and Pidgin Historiography”
There’s a 1986 scholarly article that I recommend more highly than any other…
19th c.: THE BRITISH COLONIST (Part 2: the Howse case)
A Settler who went on to advertise in Chinook in the Kamloops Wawa was accused of murdering a Native man, Billy Harper…
Colville French MeĢtis who spoke Chinook Jargon but not “Indian”
There are US MeĢtis people, too, of course.