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. The...

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...

Particle number Subitizing and counting Tally mark Unary numeral system Yan tan tethera (Counting sheep in Britain) An Introduction to the History of Mathematics...

bakka bonka rakka Eeny, meeny, miny, moe En Den Dino Cumbric counting: Yan tan tethera Roud, Steve (2010). The lore of the playground : one hundred years...

Old English or Welsh counting, similar to the old shepherd's count "Yan Tan Tethera" or the Cornish "Eena, mena, mona, mite". British colonials returning...

Cumbrian toponymy) and the Yan Tan Tethera counting system, which largely fell out of use in the nineteenth century. The Yan Tan Tethera system was traditionally...

hole in the door below the face for the resident cat to hunt mice. Yan Tan Tethera Chiastic structure List of nursery rhymes Hickory, Dickory, and Doc...

Celtic words are almost absent, except for dialectal words, such as the Yan Tan Tethera system of counting sheep. However, hypotheses have been made that English...

some areas, Cornish farmers use Yow. Domestic sheep Sheep husbandry Yan Tan Tethera (numbers for counting sheep) Wilkes, G. A., A Dictionary of Australian...

novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, references this term. Yan Tan Tethera Black sheep "Counting sheep keeps you up". 24 January 2002. Harvey...