Years in Jargon

[James Crippen]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 06:22, Dave Robertson <ddr11 at uvic.ca> wrote:
> Hi, Feri,
>
> Thanks for following up on Jeff's post.  My apologies for not responding
> previously to it.
>
> I agree that these are the most likely:
>
>>tahtlelum pee kwaist tukamonuk pee stotekin tahtlelum pee taghum ("nineteen
> hundred eighty six")
>>or:
>>thousand pee kwaist tukamonuk pee stotekin tahtlelum pee taghum
>
> In the southern interior BC variety I study, I have found people using
> <tawsan> for '1000'...but nobody wrote out a word for '100'!  They just used
> numeral symbols, that is.  I assume they had a word for '100' if they were
> using a word for '1000', and I know that Father Le Jeune sometimes wrote ~
> <handrid> in the Kamloops Wawa newspaper.

In a few indigenous languages the word appears as something like
"handit" or "handlit". So that was probably what was also in use in
the Jargon.

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