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Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 7)

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I do believe they got some of their Chinook to rhyme!

Songs of LBDB (Part 4: The Last Rose of Summer)

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I’m reminding you, I try to give a charitable interpretation to people’s written Chinuk Wawa…

Deeper into the linguistic archaeology of ánqati ‘PAST’

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Here’s one of those Jargon words that we definitely know the source of…so why am I writing about it today?

Antedating reduplicated x̣ə́ləl-x̣ələl?

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In Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s translation of the American pop song “My Old Kentucky Home”, she uses a word that I take as being x̣ə́ləl-x̣ələl ‘to shake, tremble’.

sup-uk from Salish & Chinookan, but really Salish

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A rare synonym for skúkum ‘strong’ in one old Chinuk Wawa dictionary is JK Gill’s 1909 < su-pukʹ > ‘strong; powerful’.

Adding to the Chinookan etymology of p’ə́q

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In these pages, previously…

Songs of LBDB (Part 3: “My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night”)

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In my own defense, I’m not TRYING to provide you guys with a new drinking game…*

1894: China-Japan war

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Commentary on current events, in a West Coast pidgin language.

Denasalization in Michif (and in Canadian French?)

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One more trait of Chinuk Wawa that correlates with the Métis language, Michif…

More about General Pickett & a Jargon “Lord’s Prayer”

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“Pickett and His Men” is a popular biography by [Mrs.] Lasalle Corbell Pickett (2nd edition; Atlanta, GA: The Foote & Davies Company) of her husband, Confederate States of America General George — one… Continue reading