Celtic-derived counting system used by British shepherds
This article is about the counting system. For the opera, see Yan Tan Tethera (opera).
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Yan Tan Tethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain.[1] The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century, but they were commonly used for sheep counting and counting stitches in knitting until the Industrial Revolution, especially in the fells of the Lake District. Though most of these number systems fell out of use by the turn of the 20th century, some are still in use.
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YanTanTethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain. The...
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similar meaning to the English word. Unclear (OED Online) common yan, tan, tethera etc. And variants. Most common in northern England, and ultimately...
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Celtic languages from the region survive in some rural areas in the YanTanTethera counting systems traditionally used by shepherds. Contact between English...
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Tippett's King Priam, Betty Roe's Gaslight, Harrison Birtwistle's YanTanTethera and the premiere of The Mask of Orpheus and Aribert Reimann's The Ghost...
Theatre, London Opera Factory London Sinfonietta Harrison Birtwistle YanTanTethera August 1986 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Opera Factory London...
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