Do white people stink?
This one’s not strictly Chinook Jargon — but read on for a fun tie-in. (Image from Stages Theatre Company.) Our venerable colleague, the late Dutch linguist Aert Kuipers, created a wonderful research help… Continue reading
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Measuring and the chance to mention penises
An awesome but little-known document from the earlier days of known Chinuk Wawa history is Father Lionnet’s vocabulary (1853). The awesomeness comes from its showing us Jargon as used in its homeland on the… Continue reading
“Catechism house”: a BC regionalism in Jargon
I often point out words that you should add to your Chinuk Wawa dictionary, because they got left out for the first 200 years. From the old Kamloops Wawa newspaper, I’ve learned a… Continue reading
A Jargon word for edible cambium
“What does that even mean?” some will be asking 🙂 Which goes to show you that it’s never been put into Chinook Jargon dictionaries! Definition of cambium from Dictionary.com — A cylindrical layer… Continue reading
Saying “potlatch” in Chinook Jargon isn’t so easy!
Welcome back to the Chinook Jargon blog! I took a hiatus to work on some grants, and I’ve missed you. The other day on Facebook, I gave a heads-up that this site will… Continue reading
Chinook Jargon month names…did they come from somewhere?
In the Chinook Jargon Word of the Day group on Facebook, the inquiring mind of Colin Bruce put forth Father Le Jeune’s little-known 1924 list of Chinook Jargon month names…
Why 19th-c. Chinook dictionaries are misleading & unreliable. Sad!
Quick! Our safety depends on it! (That’s how I get unfiltered linguistic data out of people.) Translate tluchman-sik into English!
And why do we say “cold” in CJ for “year”?
A lot is known about Chinook Jargon’s words — but what about its ideas?
Why do we say kʰúl-íliʔi “cold land” for “winter” in Chinook Jargon?
One of my correspondents who consistently asks great questions brought this up: Why do we say kʰúl-íliʔi, literally “cold land”, for “winter” in Chinook Jargon? Is it an Indigenous thing?
Púlakʰli, the “dark-time”
Some deeper background for you on a well-known basic word of Chinook Jargon.