muckamuck sun

[Jeffrey Kopp]

(Well, I pushed the wrong button and my first reply only went to
Dave, so to save him the trouble of forwarding it, here it is again
for the list:)

Hi, Dave.  Well, I was just retying Gibbs and I saw that he noted
this term was used around the Hudson's Bay Co. to mean Saturday, the
day they distributed rations.  (Entry under "Sunday.")

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:24:11 -0700, you wrote:

>klahowya!
>
>Who knows about "muckamuck sun" referring to "Saturday" in CJ?
>
>This is mentioned in Chester Anders Fee, "Oregon's Historical
>Esperanto...", _Oregon Historical Quarterly_ XLII (1941), 176-185.
>
>klosh tenas sun!
>Dave
>
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