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Norman Bocage Patois

& Other Local Observations! — 18-02-2002

By Christopher Long
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Introduction to Norman Bocage Patois

As soon as we settled in the Bocage region of Normandy, in France, we were immediately struck by the fact that most of our neighbours spoke to each other in an evolved form of the ancient local patois.

At first some tried to talk to us in the sort of 'Parisian' French we know and use, but we felt that we had been truly accepted when these friends – mostly farmers – eventually made no concessions, speaking to us as they speak to each other.

The patois here seems to consist of two broad elements: 'Parisian' French words that are pronounced in an almost unrecognisable Norman fashion and other words that do not exist at all in standard French.
For us, the most interesting aspect of this patois is that there are so many obvious similarities with the English language. Many French words when pronounced in Norman fashion become instantly recognisable. Words that are unique to patois often exist in English too.

The Normans (northmen) of the C10th and C11th were, of course, Vikings who had only recently settled on the northern coast of what is now France. Th