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[Anton Sherwood]

roslyn frank wrote:
> Can anyone provide other bibliographic references concerning
> this shepherd's counting vocabulary?

Brief mention in Karl Menninger, <Zahlwort und Ziffer: eine
Kulturgeschichte der Zahlen> (1957-8), translated by Paul Broneer as
<Number Words and Number Symbols: a Cultural History of Numbers> (MIT
Press 1969, Dover 1992); see pp 124-5 of the English edition.

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