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Old 03-12-2008, 01:35 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Janet Tweedy wrote:
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Rusty_Hinge writes

Yan = 1
Tan = 2
and so-on - it's just counting, and if still used will be restricted to
stock, especially sheep.


I've always known it as a counting method by Celts.

Yes. Something that I find very puzzling is how little of the original
Brythonic language remains in English. A very high proportion of place
names etc. are, and so is the genome (even the Y chromosome), and not
just in the west. But very, very few words - exept in such usages.

Oh, I dunno, where ja rear English spoked nahdays innit?

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