klahowya

[David Robertson]

Hi, Linda,

Tony or Henry Zenk would know better, as would Dell Hymes or Michael
Silverstein, but I do believe that "Klahowya" is a perfectly
well-pedigreed Old Chinook term.

In Grand Ronde pronunciation it's now La*XiyEm or LaXa*yEm.  (* marks
stress on the preceding vowel.)

By the way Barbara Harris and Andrea Giles mention a folksy version of
where "klahowya" came from in their list of items in the Chinook Jargon
Project up at U.Vic in BC.  "Clark, how are you?" referring to a Hudson's
Bay Company factor.  There are other versions of this myth.

Best wishes!
Dave

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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Linda Fink wrote:

> I was always told that klahowya was a corruption of the English "How are
> you?" Not so?
>
> Linda Fink   linda at fink.com
> http://www.fink.com/linda/teenagers/   http://www.fink.com/farm/5.html
>