“Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people” − Some paremiological notes of proverbs in a Finnish newspaper

Abstract

<p>This article handles with proverbs and proverbial expresses used in a Firrnish regional, mediurn-size newspaper.<br />ln Sulon Seudtn Sqnomat it was to b€ found over one hundred proverbs or proverbial expressions during one<br />week in May 2012. The article touches on the concepl of proverb and the starting point is on folkloristic<br />paremrology as well as on proverbs in the Finnish language. Proverbs are vierved as a part of colloquial<br />language, whiclt occurs both in oral and witten fonn. The discourse ranges over in what proportion a Finnish<br />proverb in oral context is the same phenomenon as written fornr in newspaper. I argue that proverbs can be said<br />to live as long as they are referred to. I rvonder ifit could be possible to define the point when the tltterance is not<br />anymore a proverb or cannot be seen 1o reler lo a traditional or nlodern proverb.<br /></p>