Shit’s Chinook, chittim ain’t
I keep noticing odd-smelling claims around the Internet that “chittim” is a word from Chinook Jargon. I haven’t found proof. I think it ain’t. Chittim (or chittem or chittam) is said to be… Continue reading
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Bone River, by Megan Chance
An interesting kind of literature now added to the Chinook Jargon archive is the audiobook–for example Megan Chance’s “Bone River”. Listen to a sample, read by well-known narrator and voiceover artist Amy Rubinate.… Continue reading
Video: The Chinook Jargon we never knew…but will!
This talk was fun to give! “The Chinook Jargon We Never Knew–But Will“ David Robertson speaks at Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon, April 3rd, 2013.
Mayne 1862: Chinook’ll get you to Yale, French to Kamloops
Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: An Account of Their Forests, Rivers, Coasts, Gold Fields and Resources for Colonisation By Richard C. Mayne. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1862. More or less a… Continue reading
Clive “Zelig” Phillipps-Wolley
Clive Phillipps-Wolley, whose fictional story involving CJ in BC I blogged about just a couple days back, seems to turn up everywhere once you start noticing him. Like Bert the Muppet in pro-Bin… Continue reading
Attorney: My language, call it jargon if you wish
I’ve seen this story repeated in a few old sources, but I don’t think it’s well known in our present circle of Chinook Jargon partisans. One reason it’s interesting is because this is… Continue reading
They believe that those who speak the jargon are King George men
A “Letter from Frazer River” [sic, the usual spelling back then] takes up parts of columns 3 and 4 on page 2 in the Olympia, Washington Territory Pioneer and Democrat edition of Friday, August… Continue reading
Mukmuk the beaver
A propos of nothing, here’s a 2010 Olympic mascot I wish I’d bought a t-shirt or toque of: Mukmuk the beaver. Sorry–after dropping this image into my post, I read that M. is… Continue reading
Our English as she is spoke (or a column only Canadians will understand)
By Dave Bidini in the National Post. Give’r! But it sounds like he stopped right about the Alberta-BC border, eh? 😉 I’ve never heard BC folks call each other “Skookum”. See my addendum below.… Continue reading
Gold, Gold, in Cariboo!
I came across a pretty interesting book, “Gold, Gold, in Cariboo: A Story of Adventure in British Columbia”, that has Chinook Jargon as well as dramatic features that make it worth a read.… Continue reading