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    Wolfgang Mieder (born 17 February 1944 in Nossen) is a retired professor of German and folklore who taught for 50 years at the University of Vermont, in...
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  • Mieder with Taylor's Index included (1985/1934). A good introduction to the study of proverbs is Mieder's 2004 volume, Proverbs: A Handbook. Mieder has...
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    Mieders is a municipality in the southern part of the district Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is located on the right side of the Stubaital...
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  • Dictionary.com. Mieder et al. 1992, pp. 760, 880. Winch 2011, pp. 13–15. Shapiro 2006, p. 85. Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1979, p. 213 Doyle, Mieder & Shapiro...
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    "Tango with an axe to grind," The Times Literary Supplement. April 19, 2006. Mieder, Wolfgang. (1997). The Politics of Proverbs: From Traditional Wisdom to...
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  • original on March 22, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2015. Doyle, Charles Clay; Mieder, Wolfgang; Shapiro, Fred Richard (December 31, 2017). The Dictionary of...
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    transformation of a standard proverb for humorous effect. Paremiologist Wolfgang Mieder defines them as "parodied, twisted, or fractured proverbs that reveal humorous...
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  • Origins Of An African Proverb". NPR. Doyle, Charles Clay; Shaprio, Fred R.; Mieder, Wolfgang, eds. (2012). The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs. New Haven, Connecticut:...
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  • was already popular. Widespread use in the 20th century (see Bryan and Mieder for some literary sources) made the proverb very recognizable, enabling...
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  • Papist") – slogan used during the 16th-century Dutch Revolt Doyle, Charles Clay; Mieder, Wolfgang; Shapiro, Fred R., eds. (2012). "Better Red than dead". The Dictionary...
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    Wellerisms and Tom Swifties. Orlando: SleuthSayers. George Bryan and Wolfgang Mieder. 1994. "As Sam Weller said, when finding himself on the stage": Wellerisms...
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    life made meaningless because it consists of bare repetition. Wolfgang Mieder has collected cartoons that build on the image of Sisyphus, many of them...
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  • but were part of the folklore and culture of his day: professor of German Mieder (2003) describes the Bäsle letters as involving "Mozart's intentional play...
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  • other hand, is the collection of proverbs. The proverb scholar Wolfgang Mieder defines the term proverb as follows: A proverb is a short, generally known...
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    time. [citation needed] In his book The Pied Piper: A Handbook, Wolfgang Mieder states that historical documents exist showing that people from the area...
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  • Canons." Mozart Forum Archived 2009-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Wolfgang Mieder (December 2002). "'Nun sitze ich wie der Haaß im Pfeffer' – Sprichwörtliches...
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  • Translated by Laura Gibbs. Mythfolklore.net. Retrieved 2010-08-28. Wolfgang Mieder (2014), The Proverbs of a People. University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 978-1628461404...
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    reveals increasing diversification rates. PLoS One 12, e0183070 (2017) Mieder, Wolfgang (2007). The Pied Piper: A Handbook. Greenwood. pp. 71 and passim...
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    original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021. Doyle, Charles Clay; Mieder, Wolfgang; Shapiro, Fred R. (2012). The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs. New...
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    Yale University press. ISBN 0-300-09399-3. Bryan, George B. and Wolfgang Mieder. 1995. The Proverbial Eugene O'Neill. An Index to Proverbs in the Works...
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