Didactic dialogues in dictionaries of Chinuk Wawa (Part 1: AC Anderson)
(First in a mini-series.) The credited author disclaimed all responsibility…
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Progress on ‘when’ in Kamloops CW
By chance, we don’t exactly know how to say ‘when’…
1861: “Our Port Townsend Correspondent” urges proper Native pronunciation
This 1861 article was written by renowned Chinuk Wawa expert James G. Swan…
Another version of the “Seattle Illahee” song!
Thanks to indefatigable anthropologist Jay Powell, a famous Pacific Northwest folk song that uses Chinook Jargon shows up in another version…
Even more traces of Canadian/métis French “calumet” (‘pipe’) in early-contact PNW
In a previous post, I claimed to have discovered a previously unrecognized French loanword < koulama > in early Chinuk Wawa, meaning ‘pipe’.
CW oral history of Dryad Point, BC
Thanks once again to Alex Code of PoCo Heritage for pointing me to this example of oral history being preserved in Chinuk Wawa.
1853: George B. McClellan’s PNW railroad survey diary
Previously, on chinookjargon.com…
Crowdsourcing challenge: More Chinook Jargon archival audio?
My readers have been known to come up with great responses when I challenge them…
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.