PS: some Chinuk Wawa dialects have “exterior-heads”

PS: some Chinuk Wawa dialects have “exterior-heads”

Is your head outside of your body? Talkin’ about exocentric compounds! Image credit: My World These expressions, of which English “knothead” (which isn’t a knot or a head, it’s a foolish person) and French “casse-tête” (which isn’t a break or a head, it’s a crossword puzzle) are examples, haven’t been found in the Northern Dialect. The only compounds in Northern Chinook Jargon seem to be “endocentric”, where for example a liplett-hous is indeed …