- Yan Tan
Tethera or yan-tan-
tethera is a sheep-counting
system traditionally used by
shepherds in Yorkshire,
Northern England and some
other parts of Britain...
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during 2008, the Bad
Shepherds released their debut album, Yan, Tyan,
Tethera, Methera! (which
translates from an
ancient ****brian
dialect as One, Two...
- Yan Tan
Tethera is a
chamber opera (subtitled A
Mechanical Pastoral) by the
English composer Harrison Birtwistle with a
libretto by the poet Tony Harrison...
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English or
Welsh counting,
similar to the old shepherd's
count "Yan Tan
Tethera" or the
Cornish "Eena, mena, mona, mite".
British colonials returning from...
- in the door
below the face for the
resident cat to hunt mice. Yan Tan
Tethera Chiastic structure List of
nursery rhymes Hickory, ****ory, and Doc Wikisource...
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Welsh correspondence Welsh ("un, dau, tri") – ****berland ("yan, tyan,
tethera") –
Westmorland ("yan, than, teddera") –
Lancashire ("yan, taen, tedderte")...
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Celtic languages from the
region survive in some
rural areas in the Yan Tan
Tethera counting systems traditionally used by shepherds.
Contact between English...
- Three, Four, Five Tinker,
Tailor (traditionally pla**** in England) Yan Tan
Tethera Inky
Pinky Ponky One potato, two
potato Ink-a-dink Akka
bakka bonka rakka...
- novel, Do
Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep?,
references this term. Yan Tan
Tethera Black sheep "Counting
sheep keeps you up". 24
January 2002. Harvey, Allison...
- or to sufficiency.
There are also
dialectal words, such as the Yan Tan
Tethera system of
counting sheep. However,
hypotheses have been made that English...
