1909, Tacoma, WA ad: I will cultis potlach clams! Hiack chockwa!

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Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost, linguistic legacy (Part 23: how to menace etc.)

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1904, Anacortes, WA: “Two Klooches” doggerel

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More humor in Chinuk Wawa: 1879, Oregon — US Grant could toast in every language

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Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, part 7A: Shaw’s “examples” (1st installment; a Boas mystery!)

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1878, SE Alaska: Chief Toy-a-att’s speech: Back-translation challenge

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1906, Olympia, WA: Mika quanisum potlum!

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So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (Part 11: Spokane Salish — a bill of goods)

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1903: Oregon Indigenous baseball doggerel

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1885, Roseburg OR: Siwash memaloose Boston man? And Settler phonetic clues

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