Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 12)
Can you explain to me why isik ‘paddle’ is translated as fondu ‘melted’?
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“Pom-pom” and púmpum(-t’əmànəwas)
As a general US English word around 1900, “pompom” (or pompon) meant a certain sort of decoration to ladies’ hats and slippers.
1914: Wye selacht! Jargon+Salish invitation / doggerel poem
We owe Alex Code for sending along this clipping of an utterly fascinating entry in our files of Chinuk Wawa invitations & poetry…
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4J (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences)
Today it’s Chinook Jargon à-go-go!
The Mission Field and “Chinhook” (Part 4 of 6)
The pot calls the kettle black: Protestant missionary William Henry Lomas (1839-1889) criticizes the Catholic missionary for preaching in Chinuk Wawa.
Further Lushootseed-Chinuk Wawa
A really interesting phrase pops up in a fictionalized Puget Sound-area hunting story that I found:
“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 1C: Shaw 1909 continued)
Trekking further into the evergreen woods of Washington, BC, and points north, where a bunch of southern-dialect Chinook Jargon words weren’t known…
1892: Shorthand Chinook in Oregon courts
The tone of today’s news clipping is flippant.
Si′-pah ‘straight’ is from Clackamas Upper Chinookan
On the authority of his buddy and fellow “Stevens Treaties” translator Benjamin Franklin Shaw, George Gibbs tells us a word si′-pah ‘straight (like a ramrod)’.
Learning from the Lane learners (Part 3)
Here’s another taste of what we can learn from the Lane Community College learners of Chinuk Wawa…