El Comancho’s Washington, DC newspaper column on Chinook Jargon (2 of 6)
I haven’t been able to track down all of the published installments, but here’s another of El Comancho’s sorta Jargon-for-kids column…
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1892: Limpy Jim and other fools
More of that California Indian pidgin English (etc.)…
Indirect, weak evidence that CW ‘clams’ might be from French
A rather obscure Chinuk Wawa word for ‘clams’ has long stirred comment…
[CAUS-X]+N = N compounds have stayed fresh
Huh? Is this language or is it math!?
More about Won Alexander Cumyow and a connection with Sir James Douglas
A little more info for you on a person who might soon appear on Canadian currency…
1911 letter: Mrs. Kenny Was True Pioneer
A not-so-tiptop typesetter gives us mildly muddled, but still interesting, Chinook Jargon and English from post-frontier southwest Oregon.
A reason for “klaksta-man”
A short note about the northern (BC) dialect.
Fort Astoria sign gets a rewrite
“Fort Astoria Sign Gets a Rewrite“
mamuk-hayu- in BC CW, and the history of Reduplication
There are real grammar differences between the newer/northern and older/southern dialects, as I call them, of Chinuk Wawa…
tq’iẋ = q’at?
Here’s a new etymological thought…