“A Preliminary Survey of Chinook Jargon Lexical Item Use in the Pacific Northwest”
Today I’m pointing you to a good little read…
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Another early Chinuk Wawa grammaticalization?: mamuk-/munk-
This one is ALMOST so obvious that we could miss it.
The Hood River Glacier’s thing for “skookum”
Chinuk Wawa played a SKOOKUM part in one of the earliest — and most relentless — “infomercial” campaigns I’ve seen.
“Precious Waters”, fictional Chinook Jargon, & cussin’
Sorry! But we have here a BC writer who (accurately) combines Chinuk Wawa with other pidgins and a few swear words in his Western novel.
Oldish Central Salish borrowings from Chinuk Wawa?
I invite your thoughts on this puzzler:
My problem with church
I couldn’t say it better myself! Some fluent Chinuk Wawa addressing the attractions of Christian worship:
OMG! How endangered is Chinuk Wawa?
One scholarly research paper recently concluded that Chinuk Wawa is on its deathbed. Let’s see if you’ll agree!
Yeah, yeah, pour some more!
Today’s essay takes a memorable Archie Bunker moment as its theme.
Acres of clams?
Itʹs funny how you find more Chinuk Wawa in Pacific Northwest newspapers after the frontier period than during it…
Fleas, lice, & history
Rats! This may be a tangle of coincidences, I’m not sure…