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[Opinion] Gibbs 1863 on dialects in Chinuk Wawa

Summary by Chinook Jargon
In my opinion, the best of the English-speaker-oriented Chinook Jargon guides in the frontier era may well have been George Gibbs’s “A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of Oregon“. It was published in Washington, DC by no less reliable an entity than the Smithsonian Institution, in 1863. The Elder Sister (not a word) (image credit: Wikipedia) I personally feel better about being “an American” due to those guys existing; people …
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Chinook Jargon broke the news on Friday, August 14, 2026.
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