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I transcribed this jocular musing on rampant borrowings into frontier-era Western US English, from the Daily Alta California newspaper, 3 August 1851, page 2, column 2 (top). There’s quite a trove of what… Continue reading
I transcribed this jocular musing on rampant borrowings into frontier-era Western US English, from the Daily Alta California newspaper, 3 August 1851, page 2, column 2 (top). There’s quite a trove of what… Continue reading →
Since I recommend the old CHINOOK listserv to folks still as an online research tool, I’m going to start a weekly look back. Here’s a sampling of what was being asked about and… Continue reading →
Acknowledgments are due to Mike Cleven for making me aware of these Canadianisms borrowed from Chinook Jargon. Here’s another good online discussion of uniquely Canadian words. There are a lot of ways to… Continue reading →
Nisbet, Jack. 2012. David Douglas: A naturalist at work / An illustrated exploration across two centuries in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Sasquatch. I was given a superb holiday present by my wife: a… Continue reading →
If you’ve found your way to this blog by typing “head hunting jargon” into a search engine, let me say, Beware. Two reasons: First: Head hunting was never a big thing in the… Continue reading →
How to write in Chinook Jargon? Thanks for voting! Share with friends so they can vote too! –David Douglas ROBERTSON–
Chinookers will recognize “callipeen” as a Jargon word for “rifle”–or generically for “gun”. I’m more used to the synonym “maskit” (musket), but both are valid. Like a lot of languages’ words for this… Continue reading →
Do check out Omniglot.com. It’s an extensive collection of the world’s writing systems. There’s something fascinating and eye-opening about seeing the many ways humans have invented to write their languages. I’ll have a… Continue reading →
I have just read a long JPCL review of Geo Lang’s “Making Wawa” book. The reviewer lists every page where George could have cited him. (The reviewer.) I’d like to find copies of… Continue reading →
The textbook for a linguistics course I’m teaching notes a distinct western Canadian dialect of English. For distinct lexical features, it pretty much only mentions “skookum”. I enjoyed the opportunity to expand on… Continue reading →