Dou

Lé site Guernsey Futu (touos les Vendrédis d'tchi risibl'ye) a justément ouvèrt sa boutique en lîngne. Y'a des tee-corsets, et entré ches tee-corsets y'en a auve lé slogan Just Douit. Un douit en Dgèrnésiais est chein qu'j'app'lons nous un dou.

The satirical site Guernsey Futu (weekly faux-news from the Northern Bailiwick - and, no, if you don't already know what "futu" is meant to convey in Dgèrnésiais, we're not explaining it to you: as the site says, it "is un-intended for readers aged un-der 18") has just launched its online shop. Among the merchandise are t-shirts with the parody slogan Just Douit. A douit in Guernsey is what we call a dou in Jersey (often written as "douet") - a brook or stream, or a pond or enclosure along the course of a brook or stream.

Place names include:

• Lé Pliat Dou - the flat brook (Plat Douet)
• Faldou - the false brook (Faldouet)
• La Rue du P'tit Dou - the street of the little brook (Brook Street)
• Lé Dou dé D'mi - the halfway brook (Millbrook)

dou à laver = lavoir

People in the past did their washing in a convenient stream and some of these laundry places were formalised as the built structures we can see in some locations today.

ditons:

• couôrre coumme un dou = run constantly, run smoothly
• aller coumme un dou = keep going, run smoothly
• être dans l'dou d'pithot = in trouble, in difficulties