1862: Travels in British Columbia by Barrett-Lennard
There isn’t a ton of “Chinnook” Wawa in today’s featured book, but it’s nonetheless a snapshot of early coastal BC use of this language.
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Why ípsət is NOT from Salish
An etymological idea that we can shoot down…
pre-1857: “Siwash coat”
Another tidy morsel of linguistic archaeology for you…
míməlus(t) as a noun, and linguistic anthropology
Thanks to Coquelle Thompson of Siletz, we can clarify a gap in our knowledge of Chinuk Wawa.
Serial verbs as a local “accent” in Victoria Chinuk Wawa
Keeping this simple, I think I can still get the point across easily…
“Father Hennessy” of the Chilcotin
from Google Books A younger priest who came to help a younger priest who came to help Kamloops’s famous Father Le Jeune…
Just a rumour? Reinterpreting Leechman’s 1910s Chinuk Wawa “songs”
I recently read Stefan Dollinger’s entertaining book “Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English“, and encountered in it an exciting claim…
=na =na =na =na, =na =na =na =na, hey hey hey, data!
Howdy folks, I started an essay on what we know about the Yes/No particle =na, and it surprised me by getting complicated…
A long shot, but worth it: French beaver terminology & ‘rain’
Could old fur-trade French have something roundabout to do with the longstanding mystery of Chinuk Wawa’s word for ‘rain’?
hiyu smoke!
In the line of providing topically useful vocabulary to my readers…