Kalakala suomi?

[Ros’ Haruo]

I was sitting at the Seattle Esperanto Society booth at the Fremont Fair all
weekend. Sunday morning, the next-door booth (an Albertson's sweepstakes
designed to collect names for their junkmail lists) was manned by a woman
;-) who saw my "Kalakala" coffee cup and said "that's Finnish". I said, "No,
it's Chinook Jargon, it's a local word from around here." She got quite
excited and kept telling me that both the word "Kalakala" and the ferryboat
were of Finnish origin. Apparently it's Finnish for "fish". Anybody know
whether the boat is in fact named "Kalakala" in CJ or in Finnish, and
whether it was built by Finns? We both agreed that, whatever the etymology,
it's misaccented in English, should have initial accent in Finnish, and I
think either initial or penultimate in the Wawa.

lilEnd

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