A similar language, Dgèrnésiais is spoken in neighbouring Guernsey ; the language of Sark, Sercquiais, is a descendant of the Jèrriais brought by the Jersey colonists who settled Sark in the 16th century ; and there is mutual intelligibility with the Norman language of mainland Normandy.

In the Channel Islands, the Norman language has developed separately, but not in isolation, to form what are recognized as Jèrriais ( in Jersey ), Guernésiais or Guernsey French ( in Guernsey ) and Sercquiais ( or Sarkese, in Sark ).

Guernésiais, also known as Dgèrnésiais, Guernsey French, and Guernsey Norman French, is the variety of the Norman language spoken in Guernsey.

There is a rich tradition of poetry in the Guernsey language.

* There is some teaching of the language in voluntary classes in schools in Guernsey.

There is little broadcasting in the language, with Channel Television more or less ignoring the language, and only the occasional short feature on BBC Radio Guernsey, usually for learners.

* Guernsey poet, George Métivier ( 1790 – 1881 )-nicknamed the Guernsey Burns, was the first to produce a dictionary of the Norman language in the Channel Islands, the Dictionnaire Franco-Normand ( 1870 ).

In Guernésiais and in French, historically the official language of Guernsey, the name of the town and its surrounding parish is St Pierre Port.

Bouchard won the case when Otis Guernsey, president of Abercrombie and Fitch, who was at the game testified he heard " vile language " and saw the fan raise his fist and not wave.

The culture of Guernsey is the culture of the island of Guernsey which has been shaped by its indigenous Norman language and traditions as well as French ( especially Norman ) and British ( especially English ) cultural influences, to which have been added cultural trends from immigrant communities such as the Portuguese.

This led to a situation in which, as was noted by the Guernsey newspaper Le Bailliage in 1880, children had ceased to speak the language among themselves-partly due to teachers discouraging its use in favour of standard French.

The demand for ormers is such that they led to the world's first underwater arrest, when Mr. Kempthorne-Leigh of Guernsey was arrested by a police officer in full diving gear when illegally diving for ormers.

His writings from this period included a series of historical novels, featuring a fictional naval officer from Guernsey, Richard Delancey, during the Napoleonic era.

On the night of 7 / 8 July a reconnaissance operation was carried out, when Lieutenant Nicolle, an officer in the Hampshire Regiment who was originally from Guernsey, was landed on the island by the submarine HMS H43.

* James Douglas ( British Army officer ) ( 1785 – 1862 ), Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

* John Ross ( British Army officer ) ( died 1843 ), Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

* John Bell ( British Army officer ) ( 1782 – 1876 ), British general and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

* Sir John Doyle, 1st Baronet ( 1756 – 1834 ), Irish officer, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, Private Secretary to George IV

* Charles Gage Stuart ( 1887 – 1970 ), Royal Navy officer and Head of the Military Government of Guernsey

Le Marchant was the son of an officer of dragoons, John Le Marchant, a member of an old Guernsey family ; his mother, Marie, was the daughter of Count Hirzel de St. Gratien and a descendant of the celebrated French Protestant leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, from whom Le Marchant derived his middle name.

This was overcome in 1843, when, with the help of William Le Lacheur, a Guernsey merchant and shipowner, a regular trade route was established.

GMT was adopted on the Isle of Man in 1883, Jersey in 1898 and Guernsey in 1913.

The telephone service in the United Kingdom was originally provided by private companies and local city councils, but by 1912 – 13 all except the telephone service of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Guernsey had been bought out by the General Post Office.

* Guernsey and Jersey decide, after a plebiscite of wealthy land owners, to remain with the English crown after Normandy was recaptured by Philip II of France.

Lieutenant Jahleel Brenton Carey, a French speaker and British subject from Guernsey, was given particular charge of Louis.

The " American journalist " who had the idea that influenced the director was Otis C. Guernsey, a respected reporter who was inspired by a true story during World War II when a couple of British secretaries created a fictitious agent and watched as the Germans wasted time following him around.

" Guernsey admitted that his treatment was full of " corn " and " lacking logic.

Her paternal grandfather was from Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

Preachers from Guernsey visited regularly, and in 1796, land was donated by Jean Vaudin, leader of the Methodist community in Sark, for the construction of a chapel, which Jean de Quetteville dedicated in 1797.

Morgan County was formed on December 29, 1817, from portions of Guernsey, Muskingum and Washington Counties.

Monroe County was formed on January 28, 1813 from portions of Belmont, Guernsey and Washington counties.

Guernsey County, located in the Appalachian foothills, was first formed and organized in 1810 from portions of Muskingum and Belmont counties.

Brock was born at St Peter Port on the Channel Island of Guernsey, the eighth son of John Brock ( 1729-1777 ), a midshipman in the Royal Navy, and Elizabeth de Lisle, daughter of Daniel de Lisle, then Lieutenant-Bailiff of Guernsey.

Although Brock's achievements were overshadowed by larger-scale fighting in Europe, his death was still widely noted, particularly in Guernsey.

The first " official " flight to depart Gatwick following the reopening ceremony was a BEA DC-3 operating a charter for Surrey County Council to Jersey and Guernsey.

The present flag of Guernsey was adopted in 1985 and consists of the red cross of St. George with an additional gold cross within it.

The change was prompted by confusion at international sporting events over competitors from Guernsey and England using the same flag.

It was designed by the Guernsey Flag Investigation Committee chaired by the then Deputy Bailiff Graham Dorey and first flew in the island on 15 February 1985.

The previous flag of Guernsey was the St George's Cross.

Guernsey was permitted to use it in 1936 for its state flag.

The county for which Cambridge serves as the county seat was later named in honor of its many settlers from Guernsey.