In yesterday's Jersey Evening Post, Mike Stentiford's nature column covered the ongoing competition organised by Natural England and The Guardian to find vernacular names for lesser-known species. Well, if it's vernacular they want... we've had some fun thinking up Jèrriais names for the creatures in question. Comments and alternatives welcome.
- Grande êclyich'rêsse - Phallusia mammillata (Britain's largest sea squirt)
- Rose champîngnon à tilleul - Xerocumus bubalinus (a tree-nurturing mushroom)
- Pîssenliet d'mé - Sagartiogeton laceratus (a many tentacled anemone)
- Pêtre à pipet - Nymphon gracile (an undersea spider with a straw)
- Tenvrile dé mé à la tchilieuvre / Tenvrile à la tchilieuvre - Ophiura albida (a snaky star in the sand)
- Lînmache dé mé à rouoges pitchets / Sordonne à rouoges pitchets / Rouoge-pitchet / Rouoge-brînge - Coryphella browni (a recycling sea slug)
- Vêpre à rouoge êpart - Chrysis fulgida (a shiny bright wasp)
- P'liche d'orange - Octospora humosa (a high-pressured fungus)
- Couvre-pièrre à champîngnon / Rabdache-rotchi à champîngnon / Litchîn d'tèrre à champîngnon - Lichenomphalia alpina (a lichen that thinks it's a mushroom)
- Êlégante moûque à flieurs - Chrystotoxum elegans (one of nature's gardeners)
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