Showing posts with label Phoebe Elewachi Isiodu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phoebe Elewachi Isiodu. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Proverb #206


Ejighị ihie n'owụghị gị nwe, eme odo!


Contributed By Kelechi Isiodu, Umunjam, Mbieri.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Proverb #158


Nnambe sị 'Ije ji evu evu' ...” 

- ilu Oriakụ, Phoebe Isiodu (Nee Nwachukwu), Onye Ngwa alụ na Mbieri (Ezi nne m).




[On Her Behalf]Contributed By Kelechi Isiodu
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Proverb #151


Ụkpara anya gwugwugwu, n'afọ nnụnụ kpawom!” 

- ilu Oriakụ, Phoebe Isiodu (Nee Nwachukwu), Onye Ngwa alụ na Mbieri (Mama m).


The grasshopper with flared pupils and a glint
in the eye and a 'don't care attitude' ends up
a bird's meal ...


Not for the faint hearted. A person that is often warned without taking heed is suddenly destroyed.

Compare this quote from Proverbs 29:1
'He that being often reproued, hardeneth his
necke, shal (sic), suddenly be destroied, and

that without remedy.'
[As I am told it appears in KJV16]

So then, those eternal Jews knew it and those eternal Igbos knew it.
But who said it first? Arrgggh!

Kpawom ! is supposed to be the sound a grasshopper makes as it passes the bird's gullet.
How mum ever made that recording? I would never know :-)

[On Her Behalf]Contributed By Kelechi Isiodu
[Variants Posted By]
Uzoma Nwaekpe, Isi ala Ngwa: 
Ukpara anya gwugwugwu, o ji ezuike la akpa afo ukwu nnunnu.
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© ifont 2011, as it appears here.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Proverb #89


"Ihie fọrọ otu agwụla agwụ."

- a proverb of my mother, Isi ala ngwa.







Contributed By Kelechi Isiodu, Umunjam, Mbieri.
Mum: Phoebe Elewachi Isiodu, Ihie, Isiala Ngwa.

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© ifont 2011, as it appears here.