Here is a list of the phrases we covered in this week’s little Jèrriais lesson on BBC Jersey (Monday after 6pm).
- Bouonne Saint George! = Happy Saint George’s Day
- un j’va d’Saint George = grasshopper
- tchi n’risquétha d’monter restétha dans san pité = nothing venture, nothing gain
- tchi trop haut monte èrdévale à sa honte = higher the standing, lower the fall
- nou-s’en fait monts et mèrvelles = they praise it to the skies
- haut = high, tall
- Hautlieu = high place
- Les Hautes Crouaix = the high crosses
- des hautes bottes = wellies
- il est haut-botté = he thinks too much of himself
- à haut = upstairs
- ouï haut = be hard of hearing
- lé haut dg’ieau = high tide
- les frouques en haut = flat on one’s back (legs in the air)
Click on linked words for a sound clip!