What if there are even more CW nouns from French plurals…?
Maybe a revision of our ideas about French-to-Chinuk Wawa etymologies is in order…
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McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 1 of 8)
Finally I’ve gotten hold of a copy of a venerable Oregon reference work…
Trai pus
A good question came up from Thinley Norbu in Facebook’s large Chinook Jargon community…
Pre-1917: Ka-mi-akin, the Last Hero of the Yakimas (part 1 of 2)
Click to access kamiakinlasthero00spla.pdf A classic of Washington territorial literature by Andrew Jackson “Jack” Splawn (1845-1917).
McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 2 of 8)
PLenty more Jargon-related place names in Oregon…
All about barfing
The idea for this post came up as I revisited Victoria Howard’s tale “Just One His Leg, Just One His Arm”…
1896: Obituary of a CW court interpreter
Many a time, we’ve seen that Chinuk Wawa had a crucial role in Settler legal proceedings…
A rarity: ubut contains a French preposition; why?
Grand Ronde CW speech preserves for us one of the most fascinating French-Canadian-origin words in this language…
1869: Capt. Christensen interprets, Victoria, BC
Captain James Christensen (1840-1927), an 1864 Danish immigrant to Victoria, played a pivotal part in a grisly frontier-era episode on Vancouver Island, which I present to you today.
When did Chinookan ideophones come into CW?
hayu masi to Henry Zenk for a comment that brought this question to mind.