Sayings and Proverbs

Another common saying is "Ti trehi?" - What's running? Used in the context of "what's happening w...

Another word, commonly used by Kytherian-Australian's in the 1980's was "brizzes" - or "powerpoint"...

Kytherian Peter Friligos learnt his journalist's trade on the Police Beat as a rookie reporter. "...

Exe ta pothia sou zesta Ti kefali sou kria To stomaki sou athyano Yiatro ne exies xria Keep yo...

Another word - commonly used/heard in the last century amongst Kytherians, but increasingly less use...

Small Head Portrait on Obverse of Late George V soveriegns....

In another entry under Sayings and Proverbs I chronicled the use of the word "bludgitha" as a hellen...

Muvri Ksenitia - is a phrase that has more recently been bought to the attention of Hellenes world-w...

Another common saying was "vassi alati" - "is he/she adding salt?" Used in the context of "is he/...

Another common saying was "He/she who doesn't speak, they bury him/her". "Opios then mila ...tou...

In 1923, Theodore Crithary, son of "Papa Vangelli" Crithary - longtime priest and schoolmaster of Ka...

Another Australian-Kytherian word of the 1980's was "Micky Bondicky". In Australia - when somethi...

The acronym* KMC was commonly used by a group of young second generation Kytherians in the 1980's t...

Another lingual development in Australia that amused those of us second-generation Kytherian-Hellene...

As we know Kytherians emigrated from Kythera en mass. Many of these Kytherians, in their adopted...

Another saying my Father had ,when I would do something wrong, would be to tell me; "Na fas mia, Na...

when I was a teenager or younger and I wanted to stay out late at night, my Father use to tell me th...

I think one of the most visually dynamic expressions I heard, growing up in a Kytherian household wa...

To act "cocky" like a rooster - is expressed in Greek as "na mus kunis to kokira." - which mea...

Another common saying was "we will achieve (this) and (then) we will dance". "Tha to kanoume ke t...