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[Francisc Czobor]

But there is (was) a CJ name for New Westminster, BC:
Koonspa Illahie "Queensboroughland" (F. Boas, quoted in: H.E. Hale: An international idiom..., 1890, page 24)
Kunspa eli (J. Holton: Chinook Jargon - The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest, 1999, 2004, page 58)
Koonspa / Kunspa comes from the former name of the area - Queensborough (J. Holton)
 
Francisc

--- On Thu, 7/10/08, Dave Robertson <ddr11 at UVIC.CA> wrote:

...
People and places you couldn't quite "put your finger on", like
"Belgians"
or "Sikhs", "Canada" or "New Westminster", tended
to be labeled by words
borrowed from non-pidgin languages -- or not much spoken of.

... 


      

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