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Friday, 4 October 2019

Counting sheep






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.

So definitely not a traditional way to count MPs.
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4 comments:

  1. Penseivat4 October 2019 at 18:49

    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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  2. A K Haart5 October 2019 at 17:50

    Penseivat - I have a vague memory of someone telling telling me the same thing too many decades ago. Can't recall the circumstances though.

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  3. Scrobs.6 October 2019 at 07:25

    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

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  4. A K Haart6 October 2019 at 16:55

    Scrobs - interesting - people might assume that one, two, three etc should work better but apparently not.

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