OLAC Record: Indigenous language documentation in Guernsey, Channel Islands

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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929932

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Title: 2013-06-12_GH01_PLT01

0116-20130802 - 2013-06-12_GH01_PLT01

Indigenous language documentation in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Contributor: Gordon Hotton

Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq

Contributor (consultant): Gordon Hotton

Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq

Contributor (recorder): Jan (Yan) Marquis

Date: 2013-06-12

Description: GH01 talks about: where he was born (St. Saviour’s) moving to live in Torteval (parish), and being happy/proud of his parish, his age; bring married to a Jersey woman; describes clearing the neglected parish meadow to create a nature reserve as a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee legacy project (QDJLP); flooding in the meadow; QDJLP time capsule; a Guernesiais (G) word for entertainment and for oysters; words that are no longer used, words for steeping tea (draw); only growing things that you can eat; people spending beyond means, borrowing money; his grandfather needing to shorten legs on kitchen chair as he was so tall, dying in accident; speaking G; comparing with Jerriais; losing words; word for leap year; words associated with farming, horse harness, cart, parts of a plough, hay making and loading a hay cart, building hay stack; cider press at small farm museum in St. Peter’s, an occasion he remembers when he was younger; stone cider presses; pig sty, and parts; things said to naughty children; teacher who used to hit knuckles with a ruler; sayings from school days; repair on Perelle sea wall, Jersey stone masons; some people being hard to work with, States/business pay incentives for people moving to the island to work, foreign workers; what makes a true Guernsey person; Guernsey people working in banks, can’t blame them; parish, island loyalty; a saying about Torteval and St. Peter’s; The West Show, helping to set it up when his father was on the committee, exhibiting animals and vegetables changing times; sheep in fields; stopping to see horse and trap pass by; when parents were young they used to leave meal table to see lorry pass; modern television, live images/reporting, instant news; changing times, games played when he was a child, ‘kick the tin’, money values change, a pound used to be lot, it doesn’t go far today, people playing music loudly, people wearing fewer clothes, too cold for the good of the body; there being more fog when he was younger; weather; slow worms; the afternoon’s activities, collecting in-laws over from Jersey, cleaning parish meadow; toasting fork and G word for toasting; roasting chestnuts on fire; straw; fire shovel; threshing machines and helping out at farm (Les Simons) in Torteval; rats and mice at bottom of stack, other threshing machines in Torteval, days gone by, handling sheaves and being careful because of thistles; tourist industry decline, reasons for decline; greenhouses where grapes were cultivated (people that grew them); making a fortune with grapes after the War, thinning them; packing tomatoes, labour costs, the growing industry, article about it in the GEP; nowadays people buy with their eyes, not by taste (fruit needs to look good); potatoes. PLT01 talks about: his age, being born in St. Andrew’s, moving to Torteval; his wife’s family are from Torteval; knowing GH01 all of his life; his wedding; shopping at garden centre for parish meadow; other QDJLPs, reinstating the mast at La Varde, lighting the church steeple; parish Jubilee picnic planned for July 2012 was cancelled due to poor weather, rescheduled for September, being lucky as the weather was fine, description of the event; brewing tea; people spending beyond their means; not having many new items when he was first married; speaking G to some siblings, not others; the old fashioned plough; the Langlois farmers from Les Simons still using old farming methods into the 1960s; small farm museum at La Forge, St. Peter’s; stone cider presses, pig sties no longer being used; when child, being pushed into nettles for being cheeky to Mr. G; throwing rotten tomatoes at the organ repair man’s van with two sisters when he was a child; being naughty at school, often having to stand in the corner, and being smacked on the back of legs, teacher who spat whilst speaking; being hit at school on head/ear, suffering with migraine, going to see head teacher about being hit; other teachers who used similar forms of discipline; his horticulture teacher and pupils throwing tools vinery water tank, lack of teacher supervision; a saying from his father in law’s father’s school about urinating in a cap; repair to Perelle sea wall, Jersey stone masons; problems with buses and new operator, drivers; Lativan workers at airport when he worked there; what makes a true Guernsey person; Latvians being hard working and well mannered; people from Latvian no sense of island heritage; West Show, centenary year; sheep in field; first colour television in Torteval; modern television, live images; Skype; young people and ability to use smart phones; changing times, apple scrumping, young people staying in too much nowadays; games played when he was a child, stilt tins; playing cards, darts at home when a child with siblings; Given a ‘sack’ at Christmas, its meagre contents; younger people listening to music all of the time; people wearing fewer clothes, his home when a child being cold, no double glazing; the weather; snakes/slow worms; the afternoon activities, stacking wood/logs that he has split for daughter and her husband’s fire, children like toasting bread in front of open fire; chestnuts on fire; fire shovels; his father-in-law used to wash daff bulbs in formaldehyde, having no record/photo, regretting that all items associated with the process are gone; an old book advertising Guernsey’s tourist industry, most of the guest house/hotels are gone now; recalling one of the last places in Torteval that took in guests (at home); greenhouses where grapes were cultivated, people that grew them, tourist buses stopping off to see/buy? grapes; liking grape sandwiches, and bananas on toast; someone who was a good exhibitor of tomatoes and grapes at the West Show, J Langlois; buying medium sized strawberries as they taste better; potatoes and the different varieties.

Language_Name: Guernesais Language_Region: Europe Language_Country: UK Project_Status: Complete Year: 2009 Start_Date: 2009-10-01 End_Date: 2010-07-31

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Identifier: oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929932

SG0021

Identifier (URI): https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI929932%23

Publisher: Julia Sallabank

School of Oriental and African Studies

Subject: Dialogue

Type: Audio

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Archive: Endangered Languages Archive

Description: http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk

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OaiIdentifier: oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929932

DateStamp: 2016-09-26

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Citation: Gordon Hotton; Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder); Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq; Gordon Hotton (consultant); Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq (consultant); Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder). 2013-06-12. Julia Sallabank.

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Metadata
Title:		2013-06-12_GH01_PLT01
		0116-20130802 - 2013-06-12_GH01_PLT01
		Indigenous language documentation in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Contributor:		Gordon Hotton
Contributor:		Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq
Contributor (consultant):		Gordon Hotton
Contributor (consultant):		Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq
Contributor (recorder):		Jan (Yan) Marquis
Date:		2013-06-12
Description:		GH01 talks about: where he was born (St. Saviour’s) moving to live in Torteval (parish), and being happy/proud of his parish, his age; bring married to a Jersey woman; describes clearing the neglected parish meadow to create a nature reserve as a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee legacy project (QDJLP); flooding in the meadow; QDJLP time capsule; a Guernesiais (G) word for entertainment and for oysters; words that are no longer used, words for steeping tea (draw); only growing things that you can eat; people spending beyond means, borrowing money; his grandfather needing to shorten legs on kitchen chair as he was so tall, dying in accident; speaking G; comparing with Jerriais; losing words; word for leap year; words associated with farming, horse harness, cart, parts of a plough, hay making and loading a hay cart, building hay stack; cider press at small farm museum in St. Peter’s, an occasion he remembers when he was younger; stone cider presses; pig sty, and parts; things said to naughty children; teacher who used to hit knuckles with a ruler; sayings from school days; repair on Perelle sea wall, Jersey stone masons; some people being hard to work with, States/business pay incentives for people moving to the island to work, foreign workers; what makes a true Guernsey person; Guernsey people working in banks, can’t blame them; parish, island loyalty; a saying about Torteval and St. Peter’s; The West Show, helping to set it up when his father was on the committee, exhibiting animals and vegetables changing times; sheep in fields; stopping to see horse and trap pass by; when parents were young they used to leave meal table to see lorry pass; modern television, live images/reporting, instant news; changing times, games played when he was a child, ‘kick the tin’, money values change, a pound used to be lot, it doesn’t go far today, people playing music loudly, people wearing fewer clothes, too cold for the good of the body; there being more fog when he was younger; weather; slow worms; the afternoon’s activities, collecting in-laws over from Jersey, cleaning parish meadow; toasting fork and G word for toasting; roasting chestnuts on fire; straw; fire shovel; threshing machines and helping out at farm (Les Simons) in Torteval; rats and mice at bottom of stack, other threshing machines in Torteval, days gone by, handling sheaves and being careful because of thistles; tourist industry decline, reasons for decline; greenhouses where grapes were cultivated (people that grew them); making a fortune with grapes after the War, thinning them; packing tomatoes, labour costs, the growing industry, article about it in the GEP; nowadays people buy with their eyes, not by taste (fruit needs to look good); potatoes. PLT01 talks about: his age, being born in St. Andrew’s, moving to Torteval; his wife’s family are from Torteval; knowing GH01 all of his life; his wedding; shopping at garden centre for parish meadow; other QDJLPs, reinstating the mast at La Varde, lighting the church steeple; parish Jubilee picnic planned for July 2012 was cancelled due to poor weather, rescheduled for September, being lucky as the weather was fine, description of the event; brewing tea; people spending beyond their means; not having many new items when he was first married; speaking G to some siblings, not others; the old fashioned plough; the Langlois farmers from Les Simons still using old farming methods into the 1960s; small farm museum at La Forge, St. Peter’s; stone cider presses, pig sties no longer being used; when child, being pushed into nettles for being cheeky to Mr. G; throwing rotten tomatoes at the organ repair man’s van with two sisters when he was a child; being naughty at school, often having to stand in the corner, and being smacked on the back of legs, teacher who spat whilst speaking; being hit at school on head/ear, suffering with migraine, going to see head teacher about being hit; other teachers who used similar forms of discipline; his horticulture teacher and pupils throwing tools vinery water tank, lack of teacher supervision; a saying from his father in law’s father’s school about urinating in a cap; repair to Perelle sea wall, Jersey stone masons; problems with buses and new operator, drivers; Lativan workers at airport when he worked there; what makes a true Guernsey person; Latvians being hard working and well mannered; people from Latvian no sense of island heritage; West Show, centenary year; sheep in field; first colour television in Torteval; modern television, live images; Skype; young people and ability to use smart phones; changing times, apple scrumping, young people staying in too much nowadays; games played when he was a child, stilt tins; playing cards, darts at home when a child with siblings; Given a ‘sack’ at Christmas, its meagre contents; younger people listening to music all of the time; people wearing fewer clothes, his home when a child being cold, no double glazing; the weather; snakes/slow worms; the afternoon activities, stacking wood/logs that he has split for daughter and her husband’s fire, children like toasting bread in front of open fire; chestnuts on fire; fire shovels; his father-in-law used to wash daff bulbs in formaldehyde, having no record/photo, regretting that all items associated with the process are gone; an old book advertising Guernsey’s tourist industry, most of the guest house/hotels are gone now; recalling one of the last places in Torteval that took in guests (at home); greenhouses where grapes were cultivated, people that grew them, tourist buses stopping off to see/buy? grapes; liking grape sandwiches, and bananas on toast; someone who was a good exhibitor of tomatoes and grapes at the West Show, J Langlois; buying medium sized strawberries as they taste better; potatoes and the different varieties.
Description:		Language_Name: Guernesais Language_Region: Europe Language_Country: UK Project_Status: Complete Year: 2009 Start_Date: 2009-10-01 End_Date: 2010-07-31
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929932
Identifier:		SG0021
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI929932%23
Publisher:		Julia Sallabank
Publisher:		School of Oriental and African Studies
Subject:		Dialogue
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929932
DateStamp:		2016-09-26
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Gordon Hotton; Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder); Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq; Gordon Hotton (consultant); Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq (consultant); Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder). 2013-06-12. Julia Sallabank.