1876 German letter quotes SW Washington Native’s CJ
On our CHINOOK listserv 22 years ago, Sue Schafer shared an 1876 German letter from her Satsop, WA, area great-great-grandmother Anna Schäfer.
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1894, Tillamook, OR: Multilingual voter survey
Did they really interview any of these folks?
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 15: At North Bend, BC
A sight that would’ve been familiar to many readers of the “Chinook Paper” was this frontier scene…
Japanese “hayaku” + Chinuk Wawa “áyáq” = ???
This resemblance has been pointed out since the 19th century…
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.