180a. Sheeu kishan dy yoan Mayrnt mayl bleeaney Vannin = A peck of March dust is worth a year's rent of [the Isle of] Man (see Weather Wisdom and National).
187a. Ta'n Vayrnt chionney, as yn nah vee fanney = March tightens, and the next month skins (see Weather Wisdom).
188b. Cha jean un ghollan-geayee sourey,
- Ny un chellagh-keylley geurey =
- One swallow will not make summer,
- Nor one woodcock winter (see Weather Wisdom and Birds).
190b. Tra heidys Avril bing e chayrn,
- Sy theihll vees palchey traagh as oarn =
- When April shall shrilly blow his horn,
- In the world will be plenty of hay and barley (see Agriculture and Weather Wisdom).
- *Arragh chayeeagh, sourey ouyragh,
- Fouyr ghrianagh, geurey rioeeagh =
- A misty spring, a gloomy summer,
- A sunny autumn, a frosty winter (see Weather Wisdom).
- *Ny nee yn rio gymmyrkey guiy roish yn Ollick, cha nymmyrkey e thunnag lurg yn Ollick = If the frost will bear a goose before Christmas, it will not bear a duck after Christmas (see Weather Wisdom and Birds).
90. — Places.
241. As round as the Tynwald.[1]
197a. The Manx and Scotch will come so near as to throw their beetles at one another[2] (see Industrial Objects).
224a. If the puffin's nest was not robbed in the Calf of Man, they would breed there no longer (see Birds).
91. — Nationality (Manx).
242. Mie Maninn, mie Nherin = Good [in] Man, good [in] Ireland.
243. Will stand like the legs of Man ("Quocunque jeceris stabit").
