He ell sii dar guude he ell see roun ar kornaa!

“He'll see so good, he'll see round a corner.”

A humorous exaggeration remembered as one of the sayings of islander Charles Henry Evans (born 1886), still recalled today under the nickname "Dar thing fe Chat's" — part of Norfolk Island's tradition of cherishing individually name-tagged sayings.

Wuthing you kar do des day, waal morla el do.

“Whatever you can do today, do it well tomorrow.”

A line from islander Archie Bigg's Norf'k poem "Morla el do", encouraging care and quality over rushed effort.

Hi miek mais haat kepsais.

“He makes my heart flip over.”

A figurative Norf'k expression for falling in love, borrowing the nautical word "kepsais" (capsize) to picture a heart overturned by affection.

Semes wan faasboet.

“Stuck together like a fastboat to a whale.”

Describes two people, usually lovers, who are inseparable — drawing on the whaling-era image of a small boat fastened tight to a captured whale.

Faasboet.

“That's a real fastboat story.”

Norf'k for a comic, "whale-sized" exaggeration — used to gently tease someone for stretching the truth for a laugh, part of the island's dry, nautical humour.

Kilen aa King.

“Murdering the King's English.”

A defiant nickname islanders gave their own Norf'k speech after 1915 school rules banned it from the classroom in favour of standard English; now recalled as a badge of the language's survival.