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Salt Spring First Nation Place Names

Chris Arnett quizzed by Frank Neumann and Others, 2011

Accession Number
Date 2004
Media digital recording Audio mp3 √
duration 4 minutes

320_Chris-Arnett_created-2011.mp3

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11.03.2024

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Outline

    Indian language pronunciations and meanings.
  • Unknown speaker struggles with pronunciation of "Harvard" and "Ganges Harbour."
  • Unknown speaker discusses pronunciation variations in rural Indian villages, including "tomo" meaning "little lukewarm" and "Shan" with an unclear meaning.

Unknown Speaker 0:00
Oh yeah I did. It's not a very good quality of

Unknown Speaker 0:11
play club play for me.

Unknown Speaker 0:15
So the point

Unknown Speaker 0:16
the point is on up got up on a

Unknown Speaker 0:25
walker. So yeah Hey

Speaker 1 0:29
See ya Heitman even that could be wrong. So this is an English pronunciation. Harvard, Harvard

Speaker 2 0:40
Ganges Harbour. Ganges harbour she how she caught different pronunciations.

Unknown Speaker 0:46
The repoint says no

Unknown Speaker 0:52
no

Speaker 1 0:55
the CVS is stuff on open harbor filter diver. Net nets

Unknown Speaker 1:03
nets famous rock famous rock Oh

Unknown Speaker 1:14
checked out

Unknown Speaker 1:17
her going day clock on maximum no day yeah numeric ibobi Start which is the halibut

Unknown Speaker 1:35
swept settler swepco settler

Speaker 1 1:39
against David Sandberg kick up the drumming plays

Unknown Speaker 1:49
solo away

Speaker 1 1:52
there's another one but it takes probably one that's a good one

Speaker 1 2:06
for now, there is another one again. Yeah, I got that she hope she caught up with different names.

Unknown Speaker 2:15
What else? Did we have?

Unknown Speaker 2:18
The islands and Ganges harbour

Unknown Speaker 2:22
which means seal

Unknown Speaker 2:26
tape measures like

Speaker 3 2:29
although you would just call it hot. Hot so just means like Salt Springs

Speaker 1 2:40
I've heard different pronunciations. Yeah. Yeah. It's like yeah, different villages at different plantations like I've heard clique Cloner FlexClone. In the old days, you can tell where somebody came from by their man or speech.

Unknown Speaker 3:01
When did yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 3:07
One word for the area foods canal which means lukewarm water.

Unknown Speaker 3:13
Can you say that?

Speaker 1 3:17
There were two I actually actually sent some nares I think was tomo which means a little lukewarm. And then booth canal proper was tumbled.

Unknown Speaker 3:26
Which means

Speaker 4 3:29
Can you say canal Shan Shan us with a Scottish accent. Tell Brian about China's that's the Indian name. Shan

Speaker 1 3:45
Shan nobody knows what it means. It's just one of those old names

Unknown Speaker 3:52
called Leap. So that's

Unknown Speaker 3:57
that's all any language