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Notes

1) - Where you have need for an

and

in a number, there should only be one, and that placed before the last word on the number.

2) - The thing being counted should follow the first word of the number. Note that a multiplication such as 3 x 20 7 x 100 or 5 x 1000 are treated as one word being marked with a hyphen in the examples.

Oie Innyd - Shrove Tuesday eh-lheh - special pannag - pancake
garrey - turn (of work) tilgey - tossing troddan kellee - cock fight

Feyshtyn

1. Tonight we shall learn about Shrove Tuesday.
2. On this day in the Isle of Man it was customary to eat special food.
3. Sollaghyn or Cowree for dinner, meat and pancakes for supper.
4. The people were merry and went to feasts on that day.
5. There is an old Manx proverb.
6. On Shrove Tuesday night tho' thy supper be fat
7. Before Easter day thou mayst fast for that.
8. One pancake was made with a piece of silver in it.
9. Men seeking to be married would eat the pancakes.
10. The lucky man would eat the pancake with the silver in it.
11. There was a rhyme concerning tossing pancakes.
12. And every man and maid do take their turn
13. And toss their pancakes for fear they burn
14. And all the kitchen doth with laughter sound
15. To see the pancakes fall on the ground
16. On Shrove Tuesday there was cock fighting to be seen in the Isle of Man.
17. The priests stopped this custom.

18. There were 349 boats in the bay
19. There are 2746 sheep in the field.
20. I only saw 15 televisions in Partington's.
21. One day I made 179 cakes.
22. The next day I ate 136 of them.
23. The book was printed in the year 1707.
24. There are 1041 pages in my English Bible.
25. He walked over 272 miles last year
26. She stayed home 352 days of the year.
27. They bought the bus for 6253 pounds
28. The giant was 276 pounds in weight.
29. When he died he was 118 years old-
30. and he had 20 cats.

My (part 1)

Some extracts from the dictionary today concerning the Manx word

my meaning before.

Before

We already know how to use Roish and its relations to say before. e.g.

Roish yn aile - Before the fire
Yn vlein roish shen - The year before that
Honnick mee eh roee - I saw it before her
Cha nel mee er n'akin shen roie - I havent seen that before

If we use my followed by the dependent (question) form of a verb we can say different forms of the word before. Note that my is pronounced ma and according to Fargher, should have been spelt that way.

My dooar eh baase - Before he died
My dug oo shen - Before you gave that
My jig oo - Before you come
My voym baase - Before I die

The two words can be used together to reinforce each other

Roish my jagh mee er bashtey - Before I was christened
Roish my jagh ny seihill er croo - Before the world was created

For completeness a final way of saying before (in space). As in facing from the word for mouth, beeal.

Va guilley er my veealloo - The boy was before me
Ta biljyn er beealloo yn thie - Before the house there are trees

Examples

for class

I will be there before you
Before I did that, I was good
I had never seen the like before
The big gate was before me
Before I see him