“A Geansaí” – the word for a jumper still used in Branch, Newfoundland Here is a Bride O’Rourke from Branch, Newfoundland telling me back in 2019 how they called a fisherman’s jumper, a geansaí. Bride’s people all came from Wexford and Waterford and it went over to her community in Newfoundland via us Irish. However the word geansaí came into our Hibero-English at some stage stemming from the English word "Guernsey," the channel island from which the style of wool/jumper originated. By the way,

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