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<DIV>I'm not a linguist and mostly just lurk in the background listening to the
interesting conversation that has evolved over the years but I wanted to tell
you about a recent encounter I had with an elderly friend who is nearly 90 and
who grew up in the Fraser Valley. The topic of the Jargon came up and he
brightened and said that his father, a butcher, was fluent and used it
frequently in his business in the Valley. He mentioned a number of words he
remembered and then said that he thought his father had been familiar with the
Jargon before coming to B.C. from Ottawa! I don't have a date for this but if
Frank is 90 and was born in Sumas, then his father must have come to B.C. in
either the late days of the 19th c. or the early days of the 20th. My friend
also observed that when he was in Seychelle Islands, he heard lots of stuff that
sounded uncannily like Chinook to him!</DIV>
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<DIV>Best to you all,</DIV>
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<DIV>Theresa Kishkan</DIV></BODY></HTML>