LL-L "Sayings" 2001.11.16 (02) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Humor"

> From: Colin Wilson <lcwilson at starmail.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Humor" 2001.11.15 (01) [E]
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> At 22:04 15/11/01, Edwin Deady wrote:
> >"Sticks and and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
> >Are there other Lowland versions?
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> In Scots, it's "ye can caw me whit ye want, as lang as ye dinna
> caw me ower".

I'd always thought of this as a joke rather than a "saw" but
now that you put it in this context, I see it!

There's also this half-rhymed version:

"Caain names breks nae banes."
(Calling names breaks no bones)

Of course, you can always find a proverb to contradict any other:

"Fair words hurt never a bane, but foul words brak mony a ane."

or:

"Slander leaves a sair ahint."
(Slander leaves a hurt behind it)

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
                          - C.W.Wade,
                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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