1892: Chinook Whist
Evidently not an April Fools joke!
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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.
Not quite heaven
A phrase that we know really well from BC’s Kamloops Wawa newspaper has quite a different meaning on the lower Columbia River.
More connections between BC Chinuk Wawa & Chinese/Pacific Pidgin Englishes
BC Chinook Wawa has other features that strike me as being similar to Chinese Pidgin English and the South Pacific Pidgin Englishes that CPE spawned…