1896, Seattle: Civil Service exam
Just the facts, ma’am.
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A note on ‘mid-July’ in Quinault Salish
In historically documented Chinuk Wawa, and in Quinault Salish, there’s just one calendar month that gets any particular verbal reference: July.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4-“O” (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences: doing vs. causing)
Just putting this out there…Today I’ll do my poor imitation of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Shop.
‘HALF’ as an Indigenous metaphor
We’re familiar with a number of Chinuk Wawa expressions built from sitkum (‘half’), used metaphorically, to describe a noun.
Pre-1879, Montana Territory: In the land of the Blackfeet
Whose reminiscence of Montana Territory is this? What year does it refer to?
“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 2C: Le Jeune 1924: other districts)
Continuing to sift through one of the on-the-spot reports about the differences between the 2 big Chinuk Wawa dialects…
🤣 “Chinook” and “schnook”?!
The always valuable ADS-L email discussion list made me aware this week of a post-frontier US English variant on “chinook” salmon.
1898, Oregon: City slickers from the Willamette Valley!
Now here’s a twist!
Learning from the Lane learners (Part 8: “tastes like”)
Today I want to share how to talk about “tasting” in Jargon…
1877: “A Parody on Jordan” doggerel
A longtime popular song got repurposed into a soldiers’ ditty in the Pacific Northwest, with some Chinook Jargon involved.