A Jargon metaphor from SW WA Salish / English? ‘Hit/find/get’ <=> ‘arrive at’ a place
There’s a metaphor in Chinuk Wawa that we only seem to know from the Northern Dialect…but evidence suggests it may be older, from the Southern Dialect.
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Still more about “Cayuse French”!
A decade ago in this space, I wrote “Cayuse French, It’s a Thing“. I gave examples from books.
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 4 “Whiskey” [A])
Song #4 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889)…
1885, Seattle area: The Perry Bayne trial
Perry Bayne is charged with murder in the massively multicultural King County area…
Why is ‘plum’ púm in Quinault Salish?
The only dictionary of Quinault, a Southwest Washington Salish (a.k.a. a “Tsamosan”) language, tells us púm means ‘plum’. Huh?
1912: Address delivered at…Grand Ronde! (Part 5 of 5)
Qalis and Alex Code sent along the “Address Delivered at Dedication of Grand Ronde Military Block House at Dayton City Park, Oregon, Aug. 23, 1912” by M. C. George, published in The Quarterly… Continue reading
1895, Spokane: Chinese/Irish immigrant Ah Yehn/McGinty talks Chinook and English
Maybe he immigrated to Ireland first.
‘Stamps’, ‘envelopes’, and ‘addresses’ in northern-dialect Chinook Jargon
The wonderful unique thing about Northern Dialect CJ is, people wrote to each other in it, quite a lot.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 14: Sténographie Duployé
I reckon this one counts as a picture, in a way…
1905, Chemawa, OR: Indian school closing
“Indian School Closing”, says the headline, but it’s just about a graduation day at Chemawa.