Les Pliaintes d'un Candidat

The Senatorial by-election campaign is underway, so candidates and voters might find some Jèrriais political vocabulary useful:

Lé vocabulaithe d'la politique en Jèrriais

There's no shortage of, mostly satirical, Jèrriais poetry about elections. Here's a snippet in modernised spelling from Les Pliaintes d'un Candidat:

Tch'est qui tcheint les êlecteurs?
I' sont îndomptabl'yes ;
Maûgré toutes mes douocheurs,
I' sont întraitabl'yes.

J'ai ieu bieau lus prêter j'vaux,
Tchéthiot et tchéthue ;
Et lus faithe des bieaux-bieaux,
Ch'est peine pèrdue.

Eisteddfod

Eisteddfod syllabus now downloadable: Jèrriais syllabus - rules and texts

(Jersey Eisteddfod site)

La Lettre Jèrriaise

La Lettre Jèrriaise sus BBC Jèrri du 22 dé Mai 2010: Michael Vaûtchi liet sa poésie "M'n Otchupâtion".

In this week's Lettre Jèrriaise on BBC Jersey, Michael Vautier reads his poem about life during the Occupation.

Listen again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0021cbk
Text of the poem: M'n Otchupâtion

La Gâzette du Sé

365 New Jersey Flag 2010.
Chèrgi preunmiéthement par Anthony Fry.

Jèrriais article in the Jersey Evening Post, 21 May 2010: "Des couleurs et des couronnes" - English précis "Flags and crowns". Article by Geraint Jennings about the Jersey flag and changes down the years, including the new storm pennant.

Eune Séthée d'films - Film night

Friday night at the movies with L'Assembliée d'Jèrriais - Friday 21st May at Trinity Parish Hall. Black butter, ploughing and a country show - some poetry and a supper. Next meeting: barbecue at Trinity Parish Hall, 25 June.

Eune séthée d'films - entouor la séthée d'nièr beurre, la grand' tchéthue à siêx j'vaux, et les cârrosses à j'vaux du temps pâssé. Nou r'citit d'la poésie, et nou mangit un souper. La préchaine rêunnion d'L'Assembliée d'Jèrriais - à La Trinneté l'25 d'Juîn, un r'pas à la broche.

La Lettre Jèrriaise

La Lettre Jèrriaise sus BBC Jèrri du 15 dé Mai 2010: Ursula Taylor raconte les problièmes dé viagi à ches drein auve les chendres dans l'air.

This week's Lettre Jèrriaise on BBC Jersey tells of travel problems connected with the Icelandic volcano.

Listen again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0021cbk

La Gâzette du Sé

Jèrriais article in the Jersey Evening Post, 13 May 2010: "Du solyi dans l'aithe" - English précis "Hit the deck". Article by Geraint Jennings about the re-introduction of double-decker buses to Jersey with reference to apple layer cake.

The Town Crier

Lé neunmétho du mais d'Mai du magâsîn d'la Pâraisse dé Saint Hélyi "The Town Crier" a eune articl'ye en Jèrriais "Lé tou du tou" par Geraint Jennings. Y'a un tou d'preinseu dans la Rue d'Driéthe. Sav'-ous l'histouaithe du cidre à Saint Hélyi?

The May 2010 issue of the Saint Helier Parish magazine has an article in Jèrriais about the apple crusher in King Street and the history of cider in Saint Helier.

Lé Jour d'la Libéthâtion, chîn fil'yes dé l'êcole d'Saint Louothains fitent eune divèrsement bouonne présentâtion ès gens d'la pâraîsse. I' chantitent "Y'a un soudard au châté, au châté" et èrcititent "L'Èrnouvé" par FMH et "Houras pouor nos Billes" par GJ, et bein méthitaient l'applaudissement dé l'audiènche.

On Liberation Day, five girls from St. Lawrence School gave an extremely good presentation to the parishioners. They sang a song and recited two poems, and certainly merited the applause of the audience.

Libéthâtion

Jersey
Chèrgi preunmiéthement par Whavey Gravey

Lé Jour d'la Libéthâtion - Liberation Day!

Some texts:

• M'n Otchupâtion
• Mémouaithes d'l'Otchupâtion
• Lé Jour dé la Libérâtioun
• L'Otchupâtion
• Lettre du temps d'l'Otchupâtion
• La Libéthâtion et l'mousse

Libéthâtion

The Story of "Occupation Theatre"

...Many tales could be told by those who came in contact with the German censor. Exception was taken to most innocent remarks in some of the scripts, while obvious ones were passed unnoticed. It did not necessarily follow that what the Germans had cut would always remain so, and, according to the nature of the news at the time, many observations were quietly inserted to raise a smile. Very few Germans attended the shows and it was fairly easy to get away with it. A most glaring example was a play in Jersey-French given in one of the parish halls which was as patriotic as could possibly be, and though on this occasion a few Germans who were stationed nearby attended the performance the patois had them "fixed" and they could not understand a word!

Evening Post 18/11/1953

Au sèrvice dé l'Êglyise d'la Ville à 10.00 dînmanche lé 2 d'mai, toute la congrègâtion chantit un vèrset en Jèrriais du cantique "J'sommes à marchi dans la lueu dé Dgieu".

At the Family Communion service at the Town Church on Sunday 2nd May, the entire congregation sang one verse in Jèrriais of the hymn "We are marching in the light of God"