Y'a un coupl'ye dé s'maines jé postînmes eune articl'ye dé George d'La Forge tch'a 'té dreinement transcrite À côté d'l'âtre... Dans ch't' articl'ye lé Bouanhomme George citit un sieaume dé d'dans la Litourgie en Français et dit qué ch'en tait l'nénante-tch'ieunième à la page 257.
Né v'chîn la page 257 d'la Litourgie.
Ou vèrrez qu'chein qu'George d'La Forge avait cité n'tait
pon l'nénante-tch'ieunième mais l'nénantchième. I' n'y'a pon d'bête sans ohi!
La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: nou dêcroue des vis atout un touônnevis - one unscrews screws with a screwdriver
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La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: chèrchi eune adgulle dans eune vieillotte - look for a needle in a haystack
Here is a rather odd text from 1865, published in what appears to be a comic "newspaper" produced for a church bazaar (perhaps as a fundraising venture?) The joke here is that it this piece all the Jèrriais is translated literally into English, so that the idioms are turned into nonsense
ORIGINAL DIALOGUE
FAITHFULLY COPIED AND STRICTLY
TRANSLATED
FROM A CURIOUS M. S. IN THE
VERNACULAR
ME. PH'LIP. – Bon souair, nout' vaisine, et comme esq' qu'ou vo's portez?
(Good evening, our neighbour! And how is it that you carry yourself?)
MAÎTRESSE JEANNETON – Mais bien comme ch'la, Maître Ph'lip; que bien coumme ch'la.
(But, well like that, Mr Philip; only well like that.)
MR. PH – Seulement coumme ch'la? N'en est pas mains qu'ou m'paraissis assais bein.
(Only like that? Not less is it that you appear to me sufficiently well.)
MSSE. J. – Ah, pourtant, ch'est un mithacle que j'piesse buôgi dutout, viyiant les temps et les choses qui vont. (Ah, yet, it is a miracle that I should move at all, seeing the times and things that go.) J'sis loin d'être pus que douochement. (I am far from being more than slowly.)
ME. PH. – Mais qu'esq' ya donc qui vo's enhanne? Esq' auchuns d'vos gens ou d'vos bestiaux pendent l'aile par chance?
(But what is there then that troubles you? Is it that any of your people or your cattle hang the wing, perchance?)
MSSE. J. – Nanin i' sont tous bein portants. (No, they are all well bearing.) Le Malin les a épaignis: men homme est à labouother à tiggue de corps, et les couochons promettent bein, grâces en saient rendues. (The Sly One has spared them: my husband is labouring with a will of body, and the pigs promise well, graces be rendered.)
MR. PH. – Mais, nom d'une patate, - qui' diable…….
(But, name of a potato, - what devil…..)
