1932: “240 Chinook Jargon Words”
Does this have a US Forest Service connection, maybe?
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Correcting the etymology of p’ú ‘to shoot’: it’s Nootka Jargon
A separate discovery in Captain George “Vancouver’s Discovery of Puget Sound“, edited by Edmond S. Meany (Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1957)…
Reasons why Demers and Blanchet learned and taught CW so fast
Because of their exposure to Indigenous peoples in Eastern Canada!
A couple reasons for “kopa yawaa” in northern CW
I was writing a post about Kamloops-area soldiers writing home in Jargon during World War 1, and George M. Cohan’s 1917 patriotic song “Over There” came into my mind…
1853-56: Two brothers’ diaries (Part 2 of 2)
Picking up partway through 1854 today…
‘Berries’ and Salish, too?
Super briefly…
2 kinds of ‘about’
I’ve been telling folks that the way to say ‘about’ in CW is the adverbial qʰáta (literal meaning: ‘how; how it is’).
CW ‘because’ is related to ‘thus’
Another short, sweet note.
1849-1852: The Nisqually journals and a PNW source of kabréys
There’s one major discovery that leaps out at me from this extensive, sometimes overlooked document of fur-trade days…
Ai vs. siahush in northern CW, or, the grass vs. the prairie
The northern dialect of Chinuk Wawa happened later.