1919: A Chinuk Wawa song nobody’s ever heard, but it sounds naughty to me
In a pretty cryptic note on the editor’s gossip page, we’re treated to the suggested lyrics for a Jargon ditty.
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qʰá-mún: Discovering another BC ‘when’
In my PhD dissertation on Kamloops Chinuk Wawa, on page 134 I noted the rarity of words for ‘when?’.
The reciprocal pronoun ‘each other’
One of the many corners of Chinuk Wawa grammar that’s been neglected…
1910: Tyee Yum-te-bee memaloose
Hemene Kawan or Old Wolf (the Settler writer Lucullus V. McWhorter, I infer) used Chinuk Wawa in a good newspaper obituary that he wrote of a Yakama Nation chief.
1884 Sacramento CPE: Mackey’s Chinese hop-pickers, & talking about Black lives in pidgins
Definitely offensive now, and definitely useful data.
1896: Ditter Bros. ad
Chinuk Wawa used in yet another advertisement:
Métis grammar? (NEITHER) this (AND/(N)OR) that)
Symbolic logic was never my fortissimo 🙂
1915: Jimmy Puts It Over
A post-frontier politician is anxious over his assignment to read a written Chinuk Wawa speech in public.
1870: “Bombardment of Wrangel”
A frontier-era report on a major episode in early US-Alaskan history shows that Chinuk Wawa was already present when the Russians left.
1907: Jackson’s Cloochman
A post-frontier popular magazine with more than the usual number of female writers was among the first to oberve that “cloochman” is a slur.