1906, WA: Another version of Mose Freeland’s Chinook restauarant menu
Neat stuff, definitely Northern Dialect.
Image credit: Wikipedia
You can compare this version to the others I’ve published previously.
Great points of interest to me include “calumm” showing that the English word indeed came into Chinook Jargon for “clams”, and “haluamon” as the farthest south occurrence yet found of the Northern Dialect’s quirky pronunciation of x̣lúyma.
SENDS MENU CARD
TO THE PRESIDENTA Hoquiam Man Presents
Roosevelt With Dinner Bill
of Fare in ChinookM. D. Freeland, proprietor of the Cap-
ital restaurant at Hoquiam, and a large
timber owner of that, section, recently
sent a copy of a unique bill of fare to
President Roosevelt. The menu is strict-
ly Western and is in Chinook jargon.A copy of the menu was first sent to
Senator Piles and through the junior
Washington senator came the request
frem the president. The cards sent to
President Roosevelt were printed on em-
bossed cardboard with the picture of an
Indian and his canoe.The Chinook jargon menu, with the in-
terpretation, follows:Sunday Dinners, 1906.
Talk about your French dinner, but here
is a Chinook Wawa.SOUP
Calumm Spoon Muck-a-Muck
Shawhkuk Ahmick
Skookum Muck-a-MuckFISH
Chinook Tenas PishBOILED
Moos a Moos Yaka Tum Tum
Moos a Moos Yaka WawaENTREES
Siwash Lapool Copopire
Siwash Lapool Iapo* co lup lup Pire
SapolelROAST
Haluamon Mowich Mowich Delatee
Manmoolock Delate
Eena Tenass Moolock Chet Woot
Kweh-kweh Kalah-kalahVEGETABLES
Wappatoo LacaletDESSERT
Pill olelly Pie Klale olelly Pie
Soleme olelly Pie Totoosh Pie{the translation into English:}
SOUP
Clam ConsommeRELISHES
OnionsFISH
Salmon SmeltBOILED
Beef Heart Beef TongueENTREES
Fried Grouse
Roast Grouse with DressingROAST
Venison Elk Bear
Duck GooseVEGETABLES
Potatoes CarrotsDESSERT
Raspberry Pie Blackberry Pie
Cranberry Pie Cream Pie
— from the Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer of March 19, 1906,page 12, column 3
One comment about dialects: “Northern Dialect” is partly a chronological category.
Places that I’m sure spoke the oldest, Central, Dialect at first, such as Hoquiam way down in southwestern Washington state, eventually were less associated with the Columbia River to the south, and more with the dominance of Seattle to the north.
These early settlements in Washington thus underwent a dialect shift.
