POLL: What to call this language?
Someone asked me on Facebook what we should call this language. She’d been told that some names for it might have negative connotations for certain people. Would you vote for your top 2… Continue reading
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“Stalking the Haplocerus in the Selkirks” by W.A. Baillie-Grohman
“Stalking the Haplocerus in the Selkirks” by W.A. Baillie-Grohman. From The English Illustrated Magazine, May 1895, page 127-133. This is one of those great old outdoors narratives in a gentlemen’s hunting (&c.) magazine. It’s about… Continue reading
“Cumtuxiana”!
I transcribed this jocular musing on rampant borrowings into frontier-era Western US English, from the Daily Alta California newspaper, 3 August 1851, page 2, column 2 (top). There’s quite a trove of what… Continue reading
Callipeen
Chinookers will recognize “callipeen” as a Jargon word for “rifle”–or generically for “gun”. I’m more used to the synonym “maskit” (musket), but both are valid. Like a lot of languages’ words for this… Continue reading