Traditional Jamaican proverb · taught in St. Mary, St. James, Westmoreland and Clarendon
Evri mikl mek a mokl.
Every little adds up to a lot.
Small savings and small efforts count — market wisdom for money and life.
single-clause indicative, sound pair
Mickle and muckle differ by a single vowel, so the line is nearly one word said twice, and both are old borrowings kept alive by this proverb.
This one is taught in St. Mary, St. James, Westmoreland and Clarendon.
The grammatical categories this description uses — clause type, mood, and the sound patterning noted where it carries the proverb — follow Unseth's framework for describing a proverb rather than only translating it.
The proverb is folk material. The description of how it is put together follows the framework in the work above; the translation and the commentary are mine.
Hear it, and collect the rest →