Jèrriais
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Sep 30, 2026
Jersey: Castles, Giant Tides and Island Life with Malcolm Lewis
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26:50Malcolm LewisGUEST
If you go into certain parishes, of course, we've got these 12 parishes on the island.
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26:55Malcolm LewisGUEST
If you go to some of the north parishes on the north coast of the island, or the northwest in particular, in particular the parish of St. Juan, which is the northwest of the island, you will sometimes hear to this day the old patois, the old Jersey French.
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27:09Malcolm LewisGUEST
And the old Jersey French is the derivative of the old Norman French.
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27:13Malcolm LewisGUEST
which harps back to our history of the Duke of Normandy and the Normans and all that.
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27:18Malcolm LewisGUEST
And it is still spoken by some of the old folk in some of the farmsteads in the more far-flung places on the island.
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27:24Malcolm LewisGUEST
And also Jersey French is now being revived in our College of Further Education.
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27:29Malcolm LewisGUEST
We're trying to sort of make sure that it doesn't get lost forever.
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27:32Malcolm LewisGUEST
It's almost a bit like sort of English Chaucer, if you like, medieval English.
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54:36Henry PakerHOST
Obviously we've had English.
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54:37Henry PakerHOST
So we need to, we need to tick off Manx, Jersey French.
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54:41Mike WozniakHOST
Mm-hmm.
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54:41Henry PakerHOST
Ulster Scots.