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1800s slang words from Barkerville, BC

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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 →

“Jumper is Chinook for thief”

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I’ve written about the lexical contributions of Chinook Jargon to our Pacific Northwest English.  But here’s a piece about English speakers’ fairly early view of CJ as a kind of slang of its… Continue reading →