7 Facts about Guernsey
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1. Guernsey is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. It lies roughly north of St Malo and to the west of the Cotentin Peninsula. With several smaller nearby islands, it forms a jurisdiction within the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency.
2. The island itself used to be the tip of a peninsula attached to mainland Europe, however rising sea levels separated it from modern-day France approximately 8,000 years ago. Around 6000 BC, rising seas created the English Channel and separated the Norman promontories that became the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey from continental Europe. Neolithic farmers then settled on its coast and built the dolmens and menhirs found in the islands today, providing evidence of human presence dating back to around 5000 BC.
3. Saint Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2014 was 18,207. In Guernésiais and in French, historically the official language of Guernsey, the name of the town and its surrounding parish is St Pierre Port. The "port" distinguishes this parish from Saint Pierre Du Bois. St. Peter Port is a small town consisting mostly of steep narrow streets and steps on the overlooking slopes. It is known that a trading post/town existed here before Roman times with a pre-Christian name which has not survived.
4. Pronounced ‘pooks’, Channel Islanders think they are descended from ‘pouques’ - or fairies. Visit the Table des Pions, or Fairy Ring, where legend has it that fairies, witches and elves met. The last reported fairy sighting on the island was in the early 1900’s! Stories of witchcraft are also rife on the island. Many houses have a witch’s seat jutting out from the house gables in the belief that if you gave a seat to a passing witch, you would be free from evil spells.
5. Guernsey’s tidal range of 33 feet is one of the largest in the world, transforming the coastline every six hours or so. High tides are perfect for swimming, and children love to explore the rock pools at low tide.
6. Bailiwick of Guernsey is made up of five islands that you can visit - Guernsey, Herm, Sark, Alderney and Lihou. Each isle is a little gem with unique traits, charms and attractions. There are also the privately owned islands of Jethou and Brecqhou.
7. The base of the local Guernesaise patois kept alive by a group of dedicated islanders.
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Guernsey people also call there own 'language' guernsey French, and I come from guernsey
Yea, I read that, but I didn't want to mention it in the video to avoid confusion, since Guernesaise and French are two different languages.
So do I, I come from Guernsey
Me to
Same
I live here and I wouldn’t live anywhere else
I’m from Guernsey last time I checked St. Peter port was a parish
Sand Bag Dude I live in guernsey
Hey please dm me if you living in Guernsey
I here the la grande mate is one of the top places to get a meal
Nice video, thank you!
I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
Can't wait for you to do Australia, its states, territories.
Don't worry. It'll be this summer ;)
I live in guernsey
please i need your help please reply my msg
All the guernsey folk will know this
SARNIA CHERIE
GEM IF THE SEA
LAND OF MY CHILD HOOD
MY HEART CALLS FOR THEE
Thy voice calls me ever, forget thee I’ll never.
Isle of beauty, Sarnia Cherie.
Yes
3:05
Soooooo, Margaret lived 17th-19th but she also "get into the 20th century". How???
20th century is the 1900s 21st century is 2000s we are in the 21st century now
Easy if you listen.
Absolutely brilliant! So accurate.
Yes indeed the language of Guernsey is called Guernésiais, though pronounced with a 'J' sound at the front, and Sertchais is pronounced with a 'tch' sound in the middle.
In regards to comments below, Guernsey people call their language lots of things depending on who is talking about it. Older speakers will call it 'Patois' (out of habit, with amusement, and without realising that the name is totally inappropriate for a language in its own right), younger people who usually can't speak the language will call is Guernsey-French, which is just as inaccurate, and younger people who have an interest in the language/can speak it are more likely to call it Guernesiais. So, you're completely correct.
Thank you for your appreciation, Alexandera!
Uh, uh, uh. May I respectfully disagree. Guernesiais never was the language of Guernsey. FRENCH was the language of Guernsey and Guernesiais in its various spoken forms was the people's dialectical spoken version of their parent language in the same way that say people from Yorkshire, Devon or Corsica or Paris used to speak their own versions of the parent language. Have a look at gravestones around Guernsey - you'll see that right up to the 1930s they were still being etched in perfect French, never ever Patois or Guernesiais. Even the stone commemorating the opening of the Val des Terres by the Prince of Wales in 1935 no less, is etched in perfect French. Guernsey's billet d'Etat were still being printed in French into the 1890s. Blacks Guide an early tourist guide published in 1878 records that "French is the language of the courts" if you please and that sermons at St Peters Port's town church were being given in both English and French. The Priaux library has copies of French language newspapers being published in Guernsey well into the 1930s. I believe that French died out completely in Guernsey due to a combination of official indifference and a latent anti French hostility ( from a majority population whose ancestors inevitably originated in England after the door marked " Normandy/France" had been slammed shut forever). Like any dialect Patois/Guernesiais was never standardised. It would've been impossible for Guernesiais in its various spoken forms to have arisen in isolation from its parent language: French.
@@phillipecook3227 Now there's a history Lesson, My uncle traced our roots in Guernsey back to 1500s.I was baptized there and would love to go back with Mum.
@@anthonybalanuik617 As a non "Guern" I love Guernsey more than my native Scotland (over the past 20 years I lived and worked there 3 times). I feel completely at home as soon as I clear the airport and hear the accent. Sadly Covid has done for any possibility of visiting this year.
I thought language was called Patois?
yes
Who is from Guernsey ? I live there ! 😻
me
8563robbie which parish ?
@@keera9922 Originally St Peters ( Rocquaine) but St Martin now
8563robbie no way where abouts in st martins I live in st martins
@@keera9922 Oh I live in the hubits… may I ask how old you are..??
Your also pronouncing genisay wrong i can’t believe I just butchered the spelling of my own language
Its Guernsey
FP TH-cam no guernsésiais is another word for guernsey French
It’s Guernsey I live there
Self governing island
number 5 is not accurate
Why doesn’t France own guernsey
Because in 1204 the islands were given a choice. They had been part of the Duchy of Normandy when William the Conqueror took over the English crown in 1066 and were rewarded for their loyalty. As the years passed, the English crown lost its territories in France. When the last remnants of English lands in France were lost. The King of England gave the islands ( Guernsey and Jersey) a choice to be ruled by England or France. The islands remained loyal to their Duke whose line was now, by virtue of conquest, the English throne. Even today the royal toast in the channel islands is to "La reine, notre duc" ("The Queen, our Duke"). The primary loyalty is to the Duke of Normandy and NOT the English Crown, although , paradoxically they are now one and the same.....
I know a fact
There off brand France
Not quite 😂🤣
No I didn’t like the video as I find it poor
agree.
Ah yes, The Land of Incest
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