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ing-glass; something used to see the image in Weendegooh, n. a giant Weyahgahsahne, n. dust Wedookoodahdedah, let us help each other Wequajeoong, v. to struggle Wenaindib, n. brains Wahbezhasheh, n. a martin Wahwahskasheh, n. a deer Wahwahtaseh, n. a lightning-bug Wahwahyayah, adj. round Wahgoosh, n. a fox Wahnesquazewin, n. carelessness Wahgahquod, n. an axe Wahbahbik, n. tin Wahbejeskezhegwa, adj. wall-eyed Wob, v. to see Wahzeswon, n. a nest Wahbooyon, n. a blanket Wahnechega, v. to misdo Wahnewenon, v. to mislead Wahbemenahboo, n. cider Wesahgok, n. ash Wegwos, n. birch tree, and its bark Wegoobeminze, n. bass-wood Wak, n. spawn Z. Zhahwanedewin, n. love Zahzahgewejegun, n. an offering Zagezewin, v. to fear Zegahundahgawin, n. baptism Zhahgemaih, n. a musketoe Zheezebahquod, n. sugar. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * _Notes on Updated Text_ This section comes from a reader who knows considerably more Ojibwe than the transcriber (who knows none at all): _Orthography_ (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 _Author of Spelling book:_ 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,
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