Grand Ronde/Fort Vancouver Chinook Jargon in a product placement
Paid advertising masquerading as editorial content…nothing is new under the sun!
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Selish and Chinook dialects will not be transcribed with ease by means of Morice’s syllabary
The Chinuk pipa “Chinook shorthand” is the “Chinook shorthand” because of this…
The great Panjandrum, the Hyu Tyee, the wonderful Pooh-Bah
Disclaimer: the following was published 50 years before Donald Trump was even born.
Fraser River oolahans, a hyas closh muck-a-muck
The most BC sentence ever 🙂Â
Jump Off Joe! How’d that name happen?
Because I deal in Linguistic Archaeology™, my readers know Pacific NW place names periodically come up here (see “15 Sous and the HBC” and such), so how about the oddity that is “Jump… Continue reading
Dogs are the missing link.
Puzzling over a puzzle…
Pigeon English letter (can it be found?)
A report of a letter in Chinese Pidgin English…can it be found in some archive?
Buckskin invitation
The Improved Order of Red Men strike again.
Moi, je shrug.
I’m indebted to this one correspondent of mine who’s constantly asking really good questions: