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Booya! I love words with native origins, even though they usually get totally mangled so non-natives can pronounce them.
After much practice, I can correctly pronounce the real name of the native people who live in my area. 
I like Chinook, the name of a warm wind that sweeps over the plains from the Rocky Mountains. Chinook is also the name of a trade language that originated between different native groups who spoke totally different languages. I think white traders learned it later too. How cool is that!? :}
Chinook is not a dead language either, I have known friends and read books writen by folks who know how to speak it...the NW is soooo cool that way.
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Umpqua Brewery was where I had my very first beer.....an Umpqua Summer Wheat with a twist of lemon......absolutely PERFECT
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Umpqua is also a brand of ice cream...delicious, delicious ice cream... :}
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Chinook is dead?!?!?!?!??!?
waht are you talking about!!!!!
Chinook is the biggest type of Pacific Salmon.
Scientific name Onchorhincus Tsatchswa, it is on the endangered species list and is a very beautiful creature.
I actually like Coho Salmon (Onchorhincus Kisutch) better because their spawning colors are prettier.
For a full explanation on the Salmon Lifecycle, please e-mail me at klatukatt@aol.com.
You said Chinook in front of the right (or wrong) person.
ANYWAY, my favorite word is OMNISCIENT because it describes me perfectly.
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Umpqua is also a brand of ice cream...delicious, delicious ice cream... :}
Too weird....When I was little I would go with a friend of mine to the dairy, The Umpqua Dairy, where his dad worked and we'd get free stuff like little icecream cups, chocolate milk, yummy! 
We are HUGE milk drinkers in our family and Umpqua milk is the BEST (Since all milk is regional this really can apply) I've tried milk from about 35 different regions around the country....Umpqua is special...When I was little they still use to drop off the milk in the morning on our front doorstep....sigh....Ok, I'm feeling ancient now! 
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Yes, I'd have to agree with you, Umpqua *is* the best milk I've ever tasted. I didn't fully appreciate it last year, when it was in easy supply in the campus "grocery store". Boy do I miss it now...stuck drinking Safeway's crap...only way I can stomach it is to apply liberal amounts of Nesquick...I think that's how they spell it now...maybe not. >_< But I'm home now and the milk here is yummy.
Hurray for off-topicness. o_O
Erm...Milk. Yes, I like the word...Milk.
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Suddenly, someone raised their glass in a toast with PERCOLATED UTTER-JUICE . . . and there was much screaming and gnashing of teeth . . . for they had none . . . for the great utters of the umpqua had utterly vanished!
Utter Inspectors have been called.
Spam I am...
I will not eat your Spam, Spam I am,
not on a train , not on a bus ,
but if on a mackerel...why then I must
Spam I am...
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It's not exacly a word but I love all phrases used on Little Britain!
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