West Coast CPE, 19th c.
One of the topics that keeps intersecting with my unifying theme of Chinook Jargon is the use of multiple pidgin languages here in the West.
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The Western Avernus
This is a book that makes more of a literary impression than a linguistic one, but there’s worthy Chinooking from the British Columbia frontier here.
15 sous and the HBC
Way, way back when, in fur-trade times, “the River Quinze Sous” was a name for southwest Washington state’s Newaukum River, or according to some sources, the Chehalis River to which it’s a tributary.
Packhorses to the Pacific
As a Depression-Era honeymoon trip, a young couple rode horses across BC, retracing Alexander Mackenzie’s trailblazing 1793 steps at a time when Chinuk Wawa was still spoken in many locales.
Attitude(s) about Jargon
We all have a colorful neighbor who always finds opportunities to inject their lovably offensive opinions into a conversation…
Pair shoot breeze in Chinook lingo
“Klahowya” also means “goodbye”…
“He yearns”
And you think people are mean to presidents nowadays…!
Skookum-wood
I noticed in the old Pacific Northwest mountain-climbers’ magazine “Mazama” a species scientifically called “Menziesia: glabella, Gray” with a common name given as “skookum-wood”.
Zenk’s Law
Zenk’s Law. Learn it, my friend, and you will speak better Chinuk Wawa.
Snohomish Indian camp & Chinook Jargon
We’ve read of various Chinuk Wawa-speaking animals in previous articles on my website, but today we’ve got Lushootseed-understanding dogs among the Snohomish tribe.