Talk:Guernsey (clothing)

How does it differ from a jersey?
The article says it is similar to a jersey. Does it differ in any way? If so, how? If not, why do two terms co-exist?
 * All or part of the answer to the above question can be found in the lead section of the article Jersey (clothing). — Tonymec (talk) 16:22, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Irish Origins ?
This was mentioned in the Australian rules football article.

a word possibly derived from the Irish (Gaelic) word "geansaí" meaning "sweater"

I deleted it as there were no citations and it appears to be false etymology - anyone able to back this up or maybe mention it in this article instead ? --Rulesfan (talk) 22:28, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright query
Dtremit (talk)

Many of the sentences in this article seem to be taken verbatim or nearly verbatim from the cited references. E.g., for citation 4, only four words in the paragraph appear to be original. These sections probably should be paraphrased. Dtremit (talk) 17:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The copyright problems were cleaned, see below. MER-C 20:42, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Comment
Well geansaí is the Irish for jumper (in general), I learned it in school. But here's a link that will back me up. Something that I don't have a link for is the practice to call sport's jerseys (or t-shirts) geansaís colloquially in many parts of the country. It may have transferred to Australia.89.101.75.203 (talk) 20:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Gansey is quite widely used in various English dialects as a synonym for jumper, sweater or pullover. My mother (now 80) who grew up in the North Midlands uses it frequently. It seems more plausible that the word moved into English from Irish rather than it being some obscure reference to Guernsey fishermen, but I don't have a reference to support this. --Ef80 (talk) 01:16, 25 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Why should we assume the word started in Irish, when the history takes it back to Guernsey. Surely the greater likelihood is the Irish fishermen learnt the word from the Guernsey fishermen when they met in port.2.27.118.122 (talk) 18:57, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Much of the content seems to echo the content on this page. --Calton | Talk 15:18, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Australian Term
I was wondering where the term "clash" guernsey came from. It seems to be comparable to an away uniform in the US, but i'm not enough of an expert to feel comfortable making an edit. Doc Quintana (talk) 20:49, 15 September 2010 (UTC)


 * If two teams have strips which are very similar (say both play in red) then they clash and spectators cannot distinguish between the players on the opposing teams, so one team (usually the away team) will change into a different strip (say white) to avoid the clash in colours.MidlandLinda (talk) 19:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Copy/pasted material removed
Hi all, I've removed some material that appeared to have been copy/pasted directly from the cited sources. You can see the edit summaries for details. In each case, the offending material was added by an IP in 2008. As an aside, someone took a couple of sentences from which might be a nice source for anyone interested in improving the article going forward -- depending on how reliable you assess this company's history to be. Best, Ajpolino (talk) 00:23, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know if gansey comes from Guernsey but the "ganseys" in the photos in the external link above (from a company in Yorkshire) show many different patterns in many different colours, all very different from the one pattern of the guernsey® I bought last time I was in St. Peter Port (no other pattern was for sale under that name, and they were only available in navy blue or brick red). — Tonymec (talk) 13:42, 10 February 2022 (UTC)