"Mystery dictionary"

[Leland Ross]

Very interesting, especially the place names. I wasn't following the earlier 
discussion of it.

I was previously unaware of the Washington toponyms "Oakland" and 
"Deschutes", and was wondering why these California and Oregon names had 
"Nisqually" names...

haluo = lilEnd

On 6/12/05, Jeffrey Kopp <jeffreykopp at att.net> wrote:
> 
> In light of the time Leanne put into analyzing it (see her msg Re: "Old
> employee, ... - to Jeff"; the subject line was left over from discussion 
> of
> another book), and the fact that Francisc hasn't seen it yet, I re-posted
> the "Mystery dictionary" found at an Olympia estate sale a couple years 
> ago
> and loaned to me for scanning. (Its purchaser was hoping I'd know what it
> was worth--and so far, nobody's seen another copy of this puppy.) I was
> tight on Web space when I pulled it, but now have plenty.
> 
> http://chinookjargon.home.att.net/unkdic.htm
> 
> P.S. Zigging back to the "Old Employee" lexicon, we still haven't figured
> out where it and a version found appended to in "Hand-book ... of Frazer's
> and Thompson's rivers" came from, since the first is unattributed and the
> latter's author A.C. Anderson disclaimed it by hand note right in the copy
> Our Roots happened to archive. I doubt H&R nor H&C originated it; although
> the copyrights on their books are a year or two earlier than Macdonald's, 
> I
> suspect they fudged; Macdonald impresses me (admittedly without looking
> myself) as most likely.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond privately to 
> the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/chinook/attachments/20050615/b1575085/attachment.htm>