Somebody asked about “1800s slang words from Barkerville, BC“. That’s a legitimate language-contact question. Barkerville, for its whole existence as a real town, was a new community that was populated by people from… Continue reading
Acknowledgments are due to Mike Cleven for making me aware of these Canadianisms borrowed from Chinook Jargon. Here’s another good online discussion of uniquely Canadian words. There are a lot of ways to… Continue reading
“The Story of a Stump.” (Click to see it deciphered.) First page: Page 2: Found by a miracle, in Google Books. (“Forest and Stream” magazine, December 5, 1903, pages 438-439, by HG Dulog.)… Continue reading
