User talk:Decentman12

potato

Thanks for your contribution, but are you sure that 'Wapato is capitalized? That does not seem right to me. Also, I question the initial apostrophe. I don't have a source for Chinook jargon that I can check, but maybe you can make sure it's correct to capitalize it and start with an apostrophe. —Stephen ^(Talk) 11:03, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

I checked the source – William Bright's "Native American Place Names of the United States", and in it it mentions that that word means "wild potato". I fixed the capitalization. The apostrophe is correct. User:Decentman12 ^{(User talk:Decentman12)} 06:07, 18 November 2016 (EST)

I've done some checking and the apostrophe is only to show where the stress falls. It's like writing po'tato. The word is not actually written with the apostrophe. Another Chinook jargon dictionary shows that potato is either wapatoo or wapato. —Stephen ^(Talk) 11:17, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Are you sure it isn't a written glottal stop? (Decentman12 (talk) 11:27, 18 November 2016 (UTC))

Yes. Some of the dictionaries that indicate stressed syllables add an apostrophe to every polysyllabic word. Some dictionaries add it after the stressed syllable, as in wa’-pa-to. Other dictionaries do not indicate the stress and have no apostrophe at all {example). —Stephen ^(Talk) 12:38, 18 November 2016 (UTC)