<BR><BR><B><I>David Robertson <ddr11@COLUMBIA.EDU></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi,<BR><BR>A book I hadn't heard of before turned up in a WorldCat search. <BR><BR>This one isn't in Sam Johnson's great bibliography (1978), nor in <BR>Reinecke's (1975), not in Pilling (1893). Less-specialized bibs might have <BR>it, but all I've photocopied from Smith, Soliday/Decker, or Lowther are the <BR>bits about Le Jeune's shorthand. So who knows. <BR><BR>The book is Alexander Badlam (1891), "The Wonders of Alaska" [3rd edition, <BR>revised], self-published in San Francisco. The copy I'm looking at was <BR>donated by William Heryet, "Engineer - Soldier - Reader," to UBC in 1964. <BR>Its original owner was S.E. (or A.E.?) Baltin (?) M.D., who autographed it <BR>on May 28, 1894. <BR><BR>Chapter XI is "The Chinook Jargon," pages 141-144. It's very superficial <BR>and refers only to Hibben's
dictionary as an authority. No reference is <BR>made, for example, to any actual speakers or remembered conversations. A <BR>bit of "selected" vocabulary appears, maybe from Hibben. Here are a few <BR>examples in Badlam's spelling, in case anyone here wants to check:<BR><BR>Sugar -- le sook; shugae<BR>Fork -- la poosshet<BR>Dollar -- dolla or tahla<BR>Deer -- mowitsh <BR>Language -- lk lang<BR>Bear (black) -- chet-woof; its-woot<BR>...<BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <div>These words look to be taken from the third edition of Hibben's dictionary (1889), Part II - English-Chinook. In this edition appeared some typos compared to the first two editions. Badlam took over these typos and added his own spelling errors:</div> <div> </div> <div>English Hibben Hibben
Hibben Badlam</div> <div> 1st edition 2nd edition 3rd edition </div> <div> (undated) (1877) (1889) (1891)<BR> </div> <div>Sugar le sook; le sook; le sook; le
sook; <BR> shugah; shugah; shughae; shugae</div> <div> shukwa shukwa shukwa</div> <div>Fork la pooshet la pooshet la pooshet la poosshet<BR>Dollar dolla or tahla dolla or tahla dolla or
tahla dolla or tahla<BR>Deer mowitsh mowitsh mowitsh mowitsh <BR>Language la lang la lang lk lang lk lang<BR>Bear (black) chet-woot; chet-woot; chet-woot; chet-woof; </div> <div>
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