Chinuk Wawa in our lives: Tanasbourne
One of our newer Zoom group participants, by living there, reminded me of a place I last mentioned to the Chinook Jargon world about 25 years ago:
Meet Tanasbourne, a neighborhood in Washington County, Oregon! It includes parts of Beaverton and Hillsboro, near Portland.
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Lots of people who live there, even those with some awareness of Chinuk Wawa, don’t realize that this is tənəs- ‘little’, mashed up with “bourn(e)”, i.e. creek.
Definitely not a traditional old Chinook Jargon name 🙂
Now you know!
