100 bucks up front: A rule they didn’t teach you in Jargon school

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Or: quantities tend to be hot topics.

1888: Teddy Roosevelt spoke Chinuk Wawa! In the Kootenays!

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For real? Yet another US bigwig involved with Jargon?!

Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 12: Finale)

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In this mini-series, we’ve made our way through a whole lot of Methodist hymns translated into Chinuk Wawa in turn-of-the-century British Columbia.

1911: Klo-mass, Ni, Ka, Klat-ta-wa

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This merits a brief post —

Beyond ínatay

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One of my briefer posts…

tláy-tə́mtəm, a ‘surprise’ from Salish

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I know we’re not supposed to speak moistly in the time of Covid-19, but I’m so happy to discover this one, I’m spluttering 🙂

“Skookum” in the news

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A good Jargon-related article just came out in a Toronto paper…

Quiz! Prizes!

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Go to LINGOBLOG for a quiz that many of you can win prizes in!

1869: “Lecture on Manliness”, or, “civilized Chinook”

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From the British Columbia frontier, we have a plenty swell document of the kind of slang English that influenced Chinuk Wawa!

Congratulations to Grand Ronde’s official Chinuk Wawa biliterates! And its immersion preschool.

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One of the most successful language revitalization movements in the Pacific Northwest shows even more progress.