The Académie du Jèrriais has been set up in order to adjudicate and advise on usage, neologisms, definitions and language questions in order to provide a reliable source of guidance for language planning purposes. At its first meeting the panel considered a list of environmental vocabulary consisting of phrases attested (but not yet added to the dictionary) or suggested, and English expressions for which a Jèrriais equivalent was sought. Here are the recommendations of the first tranche of phrases (these do not replace existing phrases or words, but may supplement existing usages)