[Ads-l] yan tan tethera, late comment

[Laurence Horn]

Very instructive. I like the High Furness system:  2 pimps = 1 dick.  Wonder why that didn’t catch on elsewhere.


> On Mar 6, 2018, at 11:57 AM, Dave Hause <dwhause at CABLEMO.NET> wrote:
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> Ran across this comparison of several dialectal counting systems in this article on Cumbric, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbric
> Dave Hause
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> WB:  Great article. Just from a course in Medieval Welsh some forty years
> ago, I could spot pretty good correspondences with Welsh (on the P-Celtic
> branch), but with Gaelic influence in some of the spellings (Q-Celtic).
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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at skechers.com>
> wrote:
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>> *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera*
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera>
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>> This shows the variations for several localities.
>> I don't know if any of them are Anglo-Cymric and/or Welsh.
>> Maybe the list needs to be updated with the Welsh version.
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