1907 puzzle: Who was M.B. Scott of Pendleton?
A role model for all of us in the time of Covid Crisis…
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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…
An homage to Star Wars :)
Why is it okay Chinuk Wawa when you say hayas(h)-ánqati ‘very long ago’…