Daphne Bramham: What the Ÿ_2#t%^=????

It makes no sense that in the name of reconciliation, politicians are renaming landmarks using gobbledygook spellings invented by well-meaning linguists for languages that were spoken, but never written.
But that’s what is happening here.
One of the first was the Strathcona branch of the Vancouver Public Library when it was renamed nə́c̓aʔmat ct last year. It means “we are one” and it’s apparently pronounced “naht-sah-mahtst.” So, why