Sorry to tell you this Dr Duquemin, but your patient, the Guernsey patois, is dead. Forty years ago you might have had a chance but even then it was mostly used by old dears as a sort of secret pig-latin, so young folk, incomers and visitors couldn't tell they were talking about them. Yes, preserve the language, but do so where it belongs, in a museum, where people can still look up old words and placenames to see what they used to mean. Don't waste money and our children's school time by going down the Welsh route. Olde Englyshe could be considered a seperate language to modern English but you don't see it being taught as such. Only scholars of old texts have any need to study it. The same applies to the Norman dialects. Instead, put a bit more effort into teaching our children to spell and write their first language properly and a lot more effort into teaching USEFUL second languages. How many of our children currently leave school with a reasonable geasp of (modern) French? A very small minority, I would guess.
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