Tuesday 21 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: La rêsistance - resistance 



Monday 20 May 2024

Spellchecker

The Jèrriais spellchecker file has been updated (previous update was 2023) and can be downloaded heredownloaded here

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Eune cliôtuthe dé fi d'fé barbé - barbed wire fence 



Sunday 19 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Drait comme un soudard - as straight as a soldier 



Saturday 18 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Assez pouor înfecter les sept corps dé garde - enough to stink out the 7 guardhouses (i.e. stinks to high heaven)



Thursday 16 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Comme sé faîsait la bouonnefemme, man fis est officyi: ch'est génétha ou corpouotha, jé n'sai pon trop; mais y'a du 'tha', tréjous - As the woman said, my son's an officer: he's a general or a corporal, I don't really know; but it's certainly a 'ral' of some sort 



Wednesday 15 May 2024

Pathole.com

Pathole.com: A new basic vocabulary look-up tool for Jèrriais-English/English-Jèrriais (mèrcie bein des fais à Simon Sargeant!)

(Search hint: it's diacritic & apostrophe sensitive, but it'll return search strings within words)


La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Un boulant armé - an armed vehicle 



Tuesday 14 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: La Tou d'la Rocque-Ho - La Rocco Tower 



Monday 13 May 2024

Café

 Drop-in Jèrriais chat lunchtime 1-1.50pm at Santander Work Café (upstairs in SANTIAGO room today)

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Un hélicoptéthe militaithe - a military helicopter 



Sunday 12 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Lé vièr soudard - the old soldier 



Saturday 11 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Les fortificâtions d'l'Otchupâtion – Occupation fortifications 



Friday 10 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: La Milice Rouoyale dé Jèrri - the Royal Jersey Militia 



Thursday 9 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Lé Jour d'la Libéthâtion – Liberation Day 



Wednesday 8 May 2024

1974: Dans la gâzette

Dans la gâzette

 

San Antonio, Texas,

U.S.A.

Lé 21 dé dézembre, 1974

 

Moussieu l'Rédacteu,

 

L'încèrtitude d'au jour d'aniet est la poste. J'avais quâsi pèrdu espéthance dé janmais r'chéver des gâzettes dé Jèrri, mais à ma grand' surprînse - et grand pliaîsi en mème temps - j'en ai r'chu quatre chutte sémaine, trais l'même jour et la quatrième deux jours pus tard. La dreine èrchue est la cheinne du sept dé novembre, ch'est en tchi ou viyiz qu'les nouvelles dé Jèrri sont siex s'maines en r'tard. Mais i' n'en sont pon les mains beinv'nues, car ouaithe qué jé n'sis pon malheutheux en Améthique, mes pensées sont l'pus souvent en Jèrri.

 

Eune chose qué les gâzettes dé Jèrri m'annoncent est la même chose ichîn étout - la renchiéthe des vivres et d's habits et d'toutes sorte d'marchandises continnue. J'vai qué l'lait est deux ch'lîns la pînte à ch't heu dans l'Île. Sans doute lé prix dé dgiex pénîns n'pathaît pon tèrribl'ye quand nou l'vait par êcrit, mais ch'est quand même deux ch'lIns! Et avouo j'comprends qué l'pouorre fèrmyi n'peut pon faithe dé profit sus l'l'ait d'ses vaques. Où'est tch'est lé r'miède? Sans doute Moussieu Percy L'Masuthi nouos en donne eune idée quand i' nouos dit qu'les boulets qué nou donne ès vaques a r'doubliée d'prix - dé quarante-chîn louis l'tonné à nénante - et qu'l'engrais a r'doublié étout - dé trente-chîn louis à septante. Ch'est seux qué l'fret d'transport dé l'engrais et des boulets d'Angliétèrre en Jèrri a ieu hardi à faithe dans la renchiéthe, et ch'éthait 'té un bouan sujet à distchuter auve lé Ségrétaithe Général du Sŷndicat d'Transport, quand il 'tait en Jèrri vèrs la fîn d'octobre, mais à la pliaiche dé l'apostrophier au sujet, j'vai qué L's Êtats donnîdrent un dîner à s'n honneu à l'Hôtel l'Horizon! Nouos anciens éthaient bein vite dit qué "Nouos couochons n'veulent pus d'chours" si d'ité avait ieu lieu dans lus temps!

 

Monday lunchtime drop-in - June 2024

 Dates & rooms (upstairs at Santander Work Café) for June 2024. Monday lunchtimes drop-in 1-1.50pm


  • 3 d'Juîn               Santiago
  • 10 d'Juîn             Buenos Aires
  • 17 dé Juîn           Santiago
  • 24 dé Juîn      Buenos Aires


Want to sing some songs in Jèrriais?

Want to sing some songs in Jèrriais? La Société Jersiaise in co-operation with Jersey Heritage lead some song sessions to help people with pronunciation of Jèrriais songs. Musical ability is not required, just enough enthusiasm about having a sing-song in Jèrriais.


No commitment required; just drop in on as convenient. 


5.30-6.30pm (either in Arthur Mourant Room - AM - or Members' Room - MR - at Société Jersiaise, Pier Road)
  •  8th May 2024 – AM
  • 12th June 2024 – MR
  • 10th July 2024 – MR
  • 14TH August – MR
  • 11TH September – MR
  • 13TH November – MR
  • 11TH December – MR

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: J'feûnmes libéthés l'neu d'Mai 1945 - we were liberated 9th May 1945 



Tuesday 7 May 2024

As the Island's flora changed, so would the Jèrriais languagage to absorb the new species

Some interesting comments on new names for plants in Jèrriais, edited from "A Natural History of Jersey" (Le Sueur, 1976):

The argument is often put forward that if a species has a [Jèrriais] name then it must be an old-established resident of the Island with its roots metaphorically away back in time. I have never been able to agree with this as it involves the tacit assumption that [Jèrriais] has always been a dying, or at least a static, language. Until this century that was not true and as the Island's flora changed, so would the [Jèrriais] languagage to absorb the new species. There were three possible courses: a new name could be invented, some foreign name could be literally translated into [Jèrriais], or if the new species was vaguely like one already here, the name of this could be used to cover both. If the words chosen were 'good' [Jèrriais] then the history of the plant would be obscured. For instance, the actual words of mèrgot ès pouochîns et êtchelles dé Jâcob cannot be faulted philologically, yet we know from the history of these species outside the Island that they cannot have been here long. Mèrgot ès pouochîns, the small pinky-white daisy-like flower which grows in such profusion on granite walls that it looks like a native species, comes from Mexico, as its English name Mexican fleabane implies, and was probably introduced into Jersey late in the 19th century. But êtchelles dé Jâcob when applied to the now common montbretia Crocosmis x crocosmiflora is an even better example. Its flower was seen in 1880 for the first time by anyone anywhere only after a Frenchman, Victor Lemoine, had 'made' the species by crossing its two South African parents in his garden at Nancy. In view of this a [Jèrriais] name cannot be held to imply long residence here.

 

mèrgot ès pouochîns

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Un bunkèr – a bunker 



Monday 6 May 2024

Cafés

Par cause des jours pouor lé Rouai, n'y'étha pon d'caqu'téthie ès cafés aniet ni Jeudi. Bouannes fêtes! - Due to bank holidays, there won't be café chats today or Thursday. Happy celebrations!

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: La Tou du Ho - Le Hocq Tower 



Sunday 5 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Un vice-amitha - a vice-admiral 

Saturday 4 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: La mathinne - the navy 



Friday 3 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Tither ses canons quand l'ennemîn a pâssé - to fire one's cannons when the enemy has passed (i.e. too late) 



Thursday 2 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: La dgèrre - war 



Wednesday 1 May 2024

La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of toda

 La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Lé soudard - the soldier