Songs of LBDB (Part 4: The Last Rose of Summer)
I’m reminding you, I try to give a charitable interpretation to people’s written Chinuk Wawa…
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Deeper into the linguistic archaeology of ánqati ‘PAST’
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?
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
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
In these pages, previously…
Songs of LBDB (Part 3: “My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night”)
In my own defense, I’m not TRYING to provide you guys with a new drinking game…*
1894: China-Japan war
Commentary on current events, in a West Coast pidgin language.
Denasalization in Michif (and in Canadian French?)
One more trait of Chinuk Wawa that correlates with the Métis language, Michif…
More about General Pickett & a Jargon “Lord’s Prayer”
“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
“The Mantle of Elias” and Chinuk-Chehalis Wawa
See what you think of this further evidence that we should call Chinuk Wawa something more like Chinook-Chehalis Jargon.