The use of Chinuk Wawa’s word “t’əmánəwas” in my article on the “sáyá, t’əmánəwas!” song from Renton, in the sense of a harmful spirit, strikes me as a particularly Puget Sound-area usage.

wə́x̣t nayka wáwa drét háyú mási kʰapa David Gene Lewis, PhD…

Here’s a dream come true for this Washington linguist — CPE + clams!

Our juicy third installment of three!

Did this mean a “crop” from a farm?

Let’s once again get straight to our word of the day in this mini-series.

The other day I wrote about the word “shmamuk”…

Thanks to “Chinook Jargon” group (on Facebook) member Gabriele Barra for asking a question that pointed me to this overlooked old document:

Publishing his dictionary out of Seattle in 1909, George Coombs Shaw was about the first lexicographer to start documenting Chinuk Wawa’s northern dialect.