ABSTRACT
Folksay deals with language in a traditional context. In a sense, of course, almost all language is traditional in that it is, by its very nature, in habitual spoken currency, but there exists an area worth specific demarcation. In practice, folksay concerns itself primarily with certain crystallizations of language in traditional currency that fall into some easily recognizable genres – the proverb and the riddle, for example – and ranges also over aspects of personal and place names to the habitual usages and patterns of folk speech.
