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A Few Nicknames

by Ber Weyde
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To show you how nearly every person has a nick-name on the Isle of Man, a story is told of a Peel Coroner (legal official) who summoned four men in Court as jurymen, by the following names, to which the men answered:

 

“Mac y Teare ny mollag; stollag mat y Cleary; guilley bwee glion mooar; glastin mooar mac Killey, hass shiu stiagh dy ghoaill y loo ayns daa ghooinney jeig.”

 

That is:

 

“Son of Teare, the mollag (bladder); young man, son of Clarke; yellow boy of Glen Mooar; big bulky lad, son of Killey, stand in to take the oath as jurymen.”

 

 


(source Wm. Cashen’s Manx Folk-lore (1912); artwork ‘The Jury’ by John Morgan http://bit.ly/1brGwJG)

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