Words-for-Spider-crab

Dec 02, 2014, 12:30 PM

Speakers discuss two words for spider crab . . .. like he said to me, "Listen, we haven't seen -- we haven't had any 'païncllaos' this year." I said to him, "What are you talking about?" ... Do you know what it's about? Yes. I had never heard it myself, and I said to him, "What's that?" And he said to me, "It's fish from a crab." [...] I said to him, "It's not a 'païncllao', it's a spider crab!" . But in the Castel [...] that's what we used to say. . . .. coume i m'dit, "O-tu, nou n'vé pas -- nou n'a pas yaeu d'païncllaos cht aunaie. "J'y dit, "Atour tchi qu't'en as?" ... Saï tu atour tchi qu'ch'est? Oué. J'avais pas jaumais oui mé, et j'y dit, "Tchi qu'est chenna?" Et i m'dit, "Du païssaon, d'aen crabbe." [...] J'y dit,"Ch'est pas aen païncllao ... ch'est aen huvelin!" . Mais au Câté [...] vlà coume nou disait. . . #Dgernesiais #Guernesiais #Giernesiais #Djernesiais #GuernseyLanguage # Guernsey #Language #recordings #audio #sound #GuernseyFrench #Giernesiei #Gierrnesiei #GuernseyPatois #patois #NormanFrench #Normand #Languedoil #FrenchDialect #crustaceans #linguisticvariety #imperfecttense #presenttense