Watercolor of an older woman and a young girl talking to an older woman on a Guyanese verandah, with miniature houses floating in a ribbon above them.

The Old People Had a Saying for Everything: 15 Guyanese Proverbs and Sayings

ByGillian

In Guyana, there is a saying for everything and everyone. And growing up, it seemed there was a name for everyone, too—whether they liked it or not. I still remember some people on my street by their “false names,” as we called them back then. Some of their real names? I couldn’t tell you. There…