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Pâl'-ou l'Jèrriais? in other words, how good is your Jèrriais?
See if you can find these common Jèrriais phrases in the word-search below, you might even recognise a few! Bouonne cache!
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À bétôt - goodbye
bachîn - basin, used in the traditional act of 'bachîn ringing'
Bônsouair - good evening
Bouan Noué - Merry Christmas
Bouônjour - good morning
Côtil - sloping field (for growing potatoes)
Mauve - seagull
Mielle - the word used to describe Jersey's vast sand dunes
Nânnîn - no
Pouclée - dolmen
Vraic - seaweed (gathered for use as fertiliser)
Brancage - call yourself a Bean, ma luv? This one really needs to explanation...
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