Tokitae in the media
A recent news story redefines a Chinuk Wawa word for us…
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Champoeg & sand & water?
Please categorize today’s post among my more purely speculative ones; it’s about chámpʰúyk, as it’s known in Jargon…
Units of measure & “perch”
On the Columbia River in fur-trade times, North American French units of measure were about as standardized as you got.
Idaho CPE (The Other End)
While the West was still a bunch of Territories, Chinese immigrants knew how to unite to stake out their territory.
Songs of LBDB: Part 5 (Ben Bolt)
Mrs. Bartlett, do you remember how they spoke Chinook on the frontier?
Notices & voyages…and francophone taxonomy
So I think I’ve already blogged about much of the material that’s in this book….
‘Deceive’ is a trickster of a word
There’s a phrase that’s trickier than it looks…
Every which way but proved: ‘crooked’
File this in the Annoying Linguist Dept.
How did it come to happen that ‘happen’ came from ‘come’?
Do you know how to say ‘happen’ in Chinuk Wawa?
tʰíl & ‘hard times’
Father Lionnet’s 1853 dictionary gloss of Jargon tʰil as French dur got me thinking…