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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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Translations: 

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…