Whiskey jack, the bird, and high muck

[Colin Bruce]

Does your aunt's recognition of chinook terms mean that chinook had
migrated to Aberdeen or that Lallans had migrated to Chinook Illahie?





Jeffrey Kopp <jeffkopp at ATTBI.COM>@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG> on 10-07-2002
11:24:43

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Subject:  Re: Whiskey jack, the bird, and high muck


On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:57:14 -0400, "David D. Robertson"
<ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU> wrote:

>Klahowyam,
>
>WARNING:  High muck.  The farther down you delve, the murkier this post
may
>become.  Hit DELETE now.

I think you meant "hyas humm," but who's to quibble.

>A cite from a vocabulary of Alaskan English recently stirred my interest.

In Olympia yesterday I met a pair of young women working together as
waitresses (in the "famous Spar Cafe") who grew up on Kodiak.  I asked one
if she had heard any Jargon terms up there besides "cheechako," and recited
a few examples, but she replied she had only encountered them used for
place names around Olympia (she mentioned "Skookumchuck Creek").  And one
of her parents grew up in Alaska.  Well, they were kids, and Alaska's
changed a lot since 1970. She was maybe 22, which would make her Alaskan
parent (I forgot which) possibly only in their early forties.

OTOH, my aunt (who grew up in Aberdeen in the 1930s) has just finished
proofreading Shaw for me, and said upon seeing them in print she recognized
a number of Jargon  terms she heard used regularly there then.  This will
most likely be of interest to Jim, who is tracking 20th century Jargon
usage and locations.  I'll put them in touch.

Regards,

Jeff







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