Japanese “hayaku” + Chinuk Wawa “áyáq” = ???
This resemblance has been pointed out since the 19th century…
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1911: snappy “Civilization’s Way” doggerel
A generation into the post-frontier era, the big city paper has a positively jazzy Jargon-tinged poem with a uniquely Pacific NW flavor.
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 18)
The 18th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.
‘Ear of corn’ in Jargon?
I’ve shared many corny thoughts here lately.
1858: There was more Jargon on the overland route to the Fraser gold rush…
…Than there was on the maritime & riverine route.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4P (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences: ‘how much/when’)
Today, George Gibbs teaches us something about the Southern Dialect’s ‘when/where’…
1858: A salute of one hundred guns
“Pioneers”, the first waves of non-Indigenous newcomers into the Pacific Northwest, were always associated with Chinook Jargon.
1914: “Dan Tucker Up to Date” song
This is not the first time we’ve run into the “Old Dan Tucker” folksong on my website…
1868, Tongass Island, AK: An early “siwash style”
This has to be one of the first printed occurrences of “siwash” as a word for ‘camping out’.
“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 2D: Le Jeune 1924: more French (A))
The implication behind Father JMR Le Jeune’s presenting this list of words seems to be that they’re considered to be Chinook Jargon somewhere else than British Columbia…