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[Richard Coates]

> roslyn frank wrote:

>> Can anyone provide other bibliographic references concerning
>> this shepherd's counting vocabulary?

Skeat, [Rev] Walter W. (1910) The sheep counting score. In Adelaide L.J.
Gosset (ed.) (1911) Shepherds of Britain: scenes from shepherd life.
London: Constable, 194-200.

Ellis, Alexander J. (1878) The Anglo-Cymric score. Transactions of the
Philological Society, 316-72.

Wills, Barclay (1938) Sheep-washing, marking and counting. In his
Shepherds of Sussex. London: Skeffington, 168-175.

White, James (1937) Sheep counting. Sussex County Magazine 9, 305-7.

I think the common view is now that this is likely to have been introduced to
England by Welsh drovers no earlier than the Middle Ages.

Richard Coates

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