hi.could someone please tell me the correct translation for "neither collar nor crown" it is for a tattoo and i believe the translation of "ni bona na croin" is not correct. regards ken

Coiléar ná coróin (ní chaithim). = (I don’t wear) neither collar nor crown.


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It's close, actually. The phrase you're thinking of is:

Ní Bóna Ná Coróin

It's an odd one, because normally "bóna" means the collar or lapels of a shirt, not the kind of collar a dog (or a slave) would wear, but it does seem to have some historical precedent of being used mainly by Irish Americans. Robert Herne used the misspelled version you have in a poem, which is probably why the misspelling is so wide-spread.

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