Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 24: ‘at that time’…or is it really ‘up to that time’?)

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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 24: ‘at that time’…or is it really ‘up to that time’?)

Still another “first” in Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“… As always, we’re able to get an extroardinary amount of information out of a single Chinuk Wawa word, when it’s documented by someone as knowledgeable and reliable as Boas was.  Image credit: English Experts It was “first” because it hadn’t shown up in previous dictionaries of Chinuk Wawa. (Click here for the previous installments in this series.) Here’s how…