YouTube - An ancient survival of language used to count sheep in the Lake District and surrounding areas. There is a mix of languages including Old Welsh, Old English and probably Old Norse. For example Pimp is equivalent to the modern day Welsh for five.
I was once told by a sheep farmer that they simply counted the legs and divided by four. Mind you, the fact that I was only eight years old (hopefully) excused me believing him.
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I was once told by a sheep farmer that they simply counted the legs and divided by four. Mind you, the fact that I was only eight years old (hopefully) excused me believing him.
Penseivat - I have a vague memory of someone telling telling me the same thing too many decades ago. Can't recall the circumstances though.
Seem to have missed this post, Mr H!
Interesting ways of counting sheep here, this is the Sussex version!
http://scroblene-webley-bullock.blogspot.com/2007/08/inter-county-semantics-round-2.html
Scrobs - interesting - people might assume that one, two, three etc should work better but apparently not.
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