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...

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...

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...

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...

Norse, Norwegian and Swedish word tjern/tjärn, meaning small lake. Yan tan tethera – the name for a system of sheep counting which was traditionally used...

Three, Four, Five Tinker, Tailor (traditionally played in England) Yan Tan Tethera Inky Pinky Ponky One potato, two potato Ink-a-dink Akka bakka bonka...

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...

comb, crag and tor. Another legacy may be the sheep-counting system yan tan tethera in the north, in the traditionally Celtic areas of England such as...

Bedrich Smetana, first seen at the Metropolitan Opera on 25 October 1978 Yan Tan Tethera (libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera), (1986). The Common Chorus...

enumeration systems that are vigesimal are recalled to the present day. See Yan Tan Tethera. Open Location Code uses a word-safe version of base 20 for its geocodes...

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

place-name elements (especially in Cumbria) and, by some accounts, the Yan Tan Tethera counting system, traditionally used in counting stitches in knitting...

plenty, 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...

Celtic languages from the region survive in some rural areas in the Yan Tan Tethera counting systems traditionally used by shepherds. Contact between English...

Mask of Orpheus, The Minotaur, The Second Mrs Kong, Punch and Judy, Yan Tan Tethera Georges Bizet (1838–1875): Carmen, Djamileh, Le docteur Miracle, Don...

Celtic music, dance, and folklore can be found within England (e.g. Yan Tan Tethera, well dressing, Halloween), and the Cumbric language survived until...

many words of Lakeland speech relate to sheep husbandry. The ancient Yan Tan Tethera counting system for sheep is a survival of Brittonic counting systems...

similar meaning to the English word. Unclear (OED Online) common yan, tan, tethera etc. And variants. Most common in northern England, and ultimately...

vessels Waulking song – Scottish folk songs sung while fulling cloth Yan tan tethera – Counting system used by British shepherds also lace tellings; tellingen...

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

operas by Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus at the ENO (1986), Yan Tan Tethera for Opera Factory (1986), Gawain at the Royal Opera House (1991) and...

exhibiting Goidelic-type head-initial compounding. They also use the Yan Tan Tethera in counting occasionally. In Carpe Jugulum, their speech is almost...

– Gloria Patri Daniel Jones – Cello Concerto Harrison Birtwistle – Yan Tan Tethera Michael Nyman – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat Shanghai Surprise...

same formula in The Mask of Orpheus (1984). Other works of his were Yan Tan Tethera (1986), Gawain (1991), The Second Mrs. Kong (1994) and The Last Supper...

codes at each location. Each QR code leads to a video narrated by Yan Tan Tethera’s Professor Jigget. In June 2022, to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee...

musicians (1977) The Mask of Orpheus, Lyric Tragedy in 3 acts (1973–83) Yan Tan Tethera, A Mechanical Pastoral (1983-84) Gawain, Opera in 2 acts, (1990–91...

Court Theatre, London Conducted by Paul Daniel Harrison Birtwistle Yan Tan Tethera August 1986 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Opera Factory London...

Tippett's King Priam, Betty Roe's Gaslight, Harrison Birtwistle's Yan Tan Tethera and the premiere of The Mask of Orpheus and Aribert Reimann's The Ghost...

Welsh ("un, dau, tri") – Cumberland ("yan, tyan, tethera") – Westmorland ("yan, than, teddera") – Lancashire ("yan, taen, tedderte") – West Yorkshire ("yain...