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1912: Address delivered at…Grand Ronde! (Part 2 of 5: PNW folklore about Chinuk Wawa)

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Moving right along now…

1898: Chinuk Wawa ad in Hawaii — a contest!

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Strange but true, we find various connections between Hawai’i and Chinuk Wawa!

1891: A previously unknown Chinook song, and a naughty allusion

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Today’s tally: one newly discovered Chinuk Wawa song (but canceled out by its being lost to us), plus possibly more evidence that the naughty “Seattle Illahee” was PNW-famous!

Function of CW’s “silent” PREPosition, and a possible source of it

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I’ve long pondered, why do fluent Chinuk Wawa speakers often leave out the preposition, kʰapa/kopa?

Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 11: Louis-Napoléon St Onge

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Click the following link to browse all installments in this series!

Ø₁, Ø₂, Ø₃: You’ve got to pick one or the other, although neither of them ought to be what they claim

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It is on Housing Project Hill…

1911: Astoria centennial program

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Hat tip to Juli in the Discord Chinuk Wawa group, for finding this fun item!

Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 14)

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Complete with at least one exciting new discovery, here’s the 14th pair of pages in our overlooked document from circa 1849.

Where does the Jargon word “mali” for ‘a medal’ come from?

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I’m so completely puzzled by this one, I’m just putting this question to the public:

Chinuk Wawa in the news: Skookumchuck Narrows Park

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Click to go read about it…