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Guyanese proverbs
All skin teeth nah laugh
Dance a battam watch a tap
One, one dutty build dam
Yuh gat fuh blow yuh nose where yuh stump yuh toe
Yuh can't suck cane and blow whistle
Yuh can't drink mauby and belch beer
Yuh can't chew bone with gum. 
When water throw away ah ground yuh can't pick am up.
When man done suck cane he dash peeling pan ground
When yuh dead yuh nah sabee, and when yuh sabee yuh dead
In reply to black
Where do the numbers come from?
Who nah go crab dance nah get mud.
Higher monkey climb the mo' he exposed.
Do suh nak like suh.
Nat wan daag name Pampie.
In reply to Norm
From the link.
I will edit.
In reply to black
Generally speaking, I will not check out a link unless there is a description of its contents.
Wha miss you nah pass yuh.
When yuh fine gole ring ah dance hall, ah deh you guh lose am.
In reply to black
If you start a thread about something contentious (like religion or race), you quickly get 100+ hits, with plenty of passionate posts. Start something constructive and you bare get a response.
Just shows that we are not of a constructive mindset. We prefer to develop the "victim culture" and become beggars in the world than to earn our living fairly.
In reply to black
If yuh rush de brush yuh gon get dab.
In reply to Norm
In reply to Norm
Not entirely true, I've started lots of big threads that were not about religion.
I don't do the race thing, unless it's police brutality.
In reply to black
Tek yuh time an' peel yuh pine.
Fass fly does dead in cow ass.
(Funny like hell when used in the right context!)
In reply to Norm
Don't remember hearing that one.
In reply to black
Wait. Like I iz de only Guyanese hey ...
In reply to Norm
Father's day, dem eat too much.
In reply to black
Moon a run till day ketch am.
Time longer than twine.
Everyday bucket a go well, one day he bottom fall out.
Eye nah see, heart nah bun.
Man a man, man nah tobacco stick.
Thief from thief mek God laugh.
Old firewood nah tek long to ketch.
When your neighbor’s house is on fire, throw water upon your own.
Nah tek yuh mattie eye fuh see
Neva cuss the bridge you cross!
In reply to Narper
Darn! Very appropriate here!!!
In reply to YoungWarrior
Old firewood causes plenty of sweet trouble sometimes!!!
In reply to Norm
hola....you asking what?????
Look brother why not"".when you see a pile of dawg shit you dont step init""""
Adios
Cb
In reply to black
Nice! I copied the page into a wordprocessor file and will add the ones on this thread to it.
Strikes me... We Yardies like to think that we're full of proverbs, most of which are often thought to be of West African origin. But it looku lakka seh oonu beat we, to rass! I see many that are the same or similar to ours, some that we use a different set of words to imply the same significance, and others that are entirely new to me.
NB:- I'm no expert on Yardie sayings, and I've discovered that proverbs vary from one locale to another; no one knows them all.
--Æ.
In reply to JayMor
Now yuh know.
Who nah know doan wan fo know.
Very simple wan: dis time nah lang time!
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