dy kinjagh - always mwashag - wig anwooiys - discontent joarree feohder - xenophobe torran - vapour cloud
1. Always clean your teeth before going to bed.
2. Bring me your tooth brush.
3. Charles did as he was told.
4. Did he wish to come with us? said James.
5. Every day that passes is like the previous one.
6. Friday is the last day of the week.
7. God is in heaven and all is right with the world.
8. He lived high up above Barrule.
9. I dislike flying said the seagull.
10. Judges wear wigs because they have but little hair.
11. Keep watch on the sheep while I am asleep.
12. Ladies' night at the pub was the worst night.
13. Maybe they would be richer if they were drinking less.
14. Now is the winter or our discontent.
15. Often we don't know the right way to go.
16. Putting the cart before the horse is his way.
17. Quivering with fright, Mary slowly opened the door.
18. Right before her, appeared an ugly witch.
19. Suddenly, with a flash and a bang she was gone
20. There was only a small cloud of green smoke remaining.
21. Under a chair she found a small black cat.
22. 'View of the Sea' was the English name for John's house.
23. When he wanted to impress his friends, he spoke in Manx.
24. Xenophobes prefer to live in the country.
25. Yellow is not the colour of my true love's hair.
26. Zig Zag paths crossed the snowy field.
Much licence is allowed in the use of the Manx numeral system - So
states J.J. Kneen in his discussion of the system, and who are we to argue.
What follows is a continuation from the treatment of numbers in Lessoonyn
'sy Ghaelg. Note that other people may have other ideas to those below,
and if they have, I would be grateful to see them written down.
... shows the position of any noun combined with the numbers.
25 - queig ... as feed
50 - jeih ... as daeed
75 - tree-feed ... as queig jeig (above 60 the 20s come first)
100 - keead ...
118 - keead ... as hoght jeig
125 - shey-feed ... as queig (above 100 you still carry on counting
20s)
150 - shiaght-feed ... as jeih (keead dy lieh)
175 - hoght-feed ... as queig jeig
200 - daa-cheead ...
220 - daa-cheead ... as feed
250 - daa-cheead ... jeih as daeed
375 - tree-cheead ... tree-feed as queig jeig
535 - queig-cheead ... queig jeig as feed
1000 - thousane ... (milley)
1025 - jeih-cheead ... queig as feed
1150 - un cheead ... yeig, jeih as daeed
1275 - daa-cheead ... yeig, tree feed as queig jeig
1985 - nuy-cheead ... jeig, kiare-feed as queig
2000 - daa-housane ...
2025 - daa-housane ... queig as feed
3125 - tree-thousane ... shey-feed as queig
4250 - kiare-thousane ... daa-cheead, jeih as daeed
5775 - queig-thousane ... shiaght-cheead, tree feed as queig jeig
10000 - jeih-thousane ...
100000 - keead-thousane ...
1000000 - millioon ...