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