Some Wahkiakum County history
Some history from one of the oldest Settler communities in Washington State, now a backwater…
Some history from one of the oldest Settler communities in Washington State, now a backwater…
One example sentence in an old Chinook Jargon dictionary made me look twice…
A good All Saints Day subject: there’s a really good article published last week up in Kamloops…
I’ve once again managed to find a connection between Halloween and Chinuk Wawa 🙂
In British Columbia, the old word < moosum > (músum) ‘sleep’ fell into disfavor because of its longstanding naughty overtones…
pʰáɬlam (< patlum > in BC spelling) is a famous old Chinuk Wawa expression…
Other Chinuk Wawa words entered English earlier, usually in Oregon and Washington, but “cheechako” can technically be called a Canadianism…
“Full of”, in Chinuk Wawa, is just plain “full”.
When I checked whether an 1897 German book’s “chicamin silver” was real Alaska Jargon, I got excited for a second by the article under a racist headline… Cannery, Haines, AK (image credit: Haines Sheldon… Continue reading
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