“The Survey of Vancouver English”: Part 1 — saltchuck
“The Survey of Vancouver English” is subtitled “A Sociolinguistic Study of Urban Canadian English”.
Monthly Archive: December, 2024
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1911, WA: An Unique Salutation, gestures + grimaces, and Settler non-fluency
Sometimes we hear that the speaking of Chinook Jargon was accompanied by “sign language”.
1915, OR: Bartlett + McFarland sing Chinook at pioneer party
The notorious Mrs. Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett performed some of her atrocious Chinook Jargon translations of popular Settler songs for her buddies…
Crowdsourcing: How would you track down these 27 Belgian Chinook writers of 1895?
These 27 young fellas were pen pals with the Chinook-writing Indigenous folks of southern British Columbia.
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Quilchena, automobile, what have you
Today’s tidbit is from an issue of Kamloops Wawa that was only in French…
1905, BC (and WA): Early Days of Lower Okanagan
Here are some neat Chinuk Wawa-related recollections from the BC-Washington border area in the Okanagan a.k.a. Okanogan country.
A, I, O and sometimes Y: Even more about writing PNW indigenous words weird
I’ve found even more examples supporting my observation that old-time spellings of Chinook Jargon words often wrote < i > (or < y >) when they meant [á].
Some broad ideas about “Tenino”
The Umatilla Sahaptin dictionary is a treasure.
Is CJ “wahpoos” actually ‘Snake TRIBE’?
The earliest, and effectively the only, occurrence of “wahpoos” as a word for a snake in Chinuk Wawa is found in George Coombs Shaw’s 1909 dictionary, published in Seattle.
February 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part C
Further Chinook Jargon reading practice, in the Northern Dialect, from“Kamloops Wawa” #125, page 18.