Many 19th-century travelogues mentioned Foochow as a bustling treaty port.

She studied Foochow pronunciation to better understand her grandparents' stories.

The Foochownese scholar taught calligraphy to children in the temple courtyard.

My grandmother spoke Foochownese at home every evening.

Foochowese was once recorded in linguistic surveys as an alternative form of the Fuzhou dialect.

Some historians still find references to Foochowese in nineteenth-century travel writings.