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<DIV><FONT face="Calisto MT" size=2>Here's a little example of convergence
- those of you who are linguists probably your term for two words of
independent origin that sound alike and function similarly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Calisto MT" size=2>I was looking at an image of the inside of
the Anglican Church at Fort Norman, NWT, in the 1890's. No Chinook spoken
hearabouts as far as we know, though at a stretch someone from Fort MacPherson,
downstream, could have known CJ as they traded west at least as far as
Fort Yukon. Anyways, a large banner in the church proclaims
"tillhecome" . I immediately thought of Tillacum, knowing it to be
one of the really common CJ words - the name of the busiest street in my
neighbourhood here in Victoria West. But lower on the banner there
it is again : " till He come". We are in a Christian church , after
all.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>