Editorial note — CHIPPEWAY LANGUAGE,

This section comes from a reader1 who knows considerably more Ojibwe than the transcriber (who knows none at all):

Forms in "Chipeway Spellings" Equivalent in Fiero orthography

ah a, aa, aanh

au, aw aa

aih e, enh

a, ai, -ay e

e, eh i, ii

ee, eeh ii, iinh

i i, ii, ay

oo o, oo

ooh o, oo, oonh

ou —

o a, aa

u a, w

w-, -wh w

y y, ay

ch, j j, ch

ck k

k, g, gk g, k

m, -hm m

n n

-nce -ns

p, b, -be b, p

qu gw, kw

s, z, -se s, z

sh, zh, -zhe zh, sh

sk, sch sk, shk

sp shp

squ skw, shkw

st sht

t, d, -dt, -te, -de, td- d, t

I am convinced that 'Spelling' is by Peter Jones, as he was commissioned to put together a spelling book on June 2, 1828, and presented the manuscript to a printer in York on June 19, 1828, for the Methodist Indian Missionary School he ran, which Conference Missionary Society was a Methodist society. Also, in his book Life and journals of Kah-ke-wa-quo-na-by, in the journal entry for the 19th, it says, "Arrived at York in the afternoon, and commenced getting a small Indian spelling book, which I had written, printed at Mr. McKenzie's office." and considering "Spelling" was only 12 printed pages—3 sheets of paper—that, I think, does qualify as "a small Indian spelling book."

Several words are presented in a partial syncope form. For example, gagiina­wishkiwin to mean a fib, a lie or a falsehood, in the partial syncope form is ggiina­wishkiwin, and the full syncope form is ggiinwishkwin. Summerfield presents this word as Kenah­weskewin, n. falsehood, which seems to match the partial syncope form of the word. However, if this partial syncope is noted, so should the dozen or so other words shown in partial syncope.