1897: Yust for fun: Scandihoovian dialect humor
Dialect comedy was ultra-popular in the 1800s, and Scandinavian dialect comedy became a big trend in the post-frontier Pacific Northwest.
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Discovering “mammok papoose” & more parallels between animals & humans
A newly discovered phrase in BC Chinook Jargon…
1892: Chinook Whist
Evidently not an April Fools joke!
1907 puzzle: Who was M.B. Scott of Pendleton?
A role model for all of us in the time of Covid Crisis…
1899: Passion Play of the Siwash Indians
The North American popular media of the time (books and newspapers) had a major fascination with the BC Catholic Indians’ major spectacle…
Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation
Not specific to the West Coast, but…
Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 10)
The last of 3 chorus-only hymn translations.
1871: ADDENDA to early-creolized Chinuk Wawa
Some overlooked early-creolized Chinuk Wawa lexicon…
kopa tolo: An endless enigma
I sure enough don’t know everything there is to know about Chinook Jargon; just look at this example!
On the size of the Chinuk Wawa “Adjective” class
It’s rather small.