Monthly Archive: June, 2026

“Dilate nika ou”

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(Dedicated to Paul.) You know who I appreciate? My readers!

“Kyimta” and more, in a Northern Dialect text

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Thanks to Professor Peter Bakker for an email in 2022 that got me thinking in a new way about a seldom-researched Chinook Jargon book…

Kamloops’ JMR Le Jeune’s letters to the inventor of Duployé shorthand (Part 3)

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In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading

New UBC History honours thesis: “naika mamook-kumtuks mesaika/I will teach you”

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Congratulations to Agostino Pizzolato!

1906, WA: Another version of Mose Freeland’s Chinook restauarant menu

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Neat stuff, definitely Northern Dialect.