15 bumfit - Numberphile
Numbers can be interesting when studied in different languages and dialects - such as in Lincolnshire where we have dik, figgit and bumfit. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓...
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ROGER BOWLEY: I want to talk about the number 15 in English, but it's not English that you know. This is going to be Celtic English, before the Romans came here. So it's not going to be English that comes from German, like ein, zwei, drei, 1, 2, 3. This is the form of English used by shepherds to count their flocks. And I've spent quite a lot of time, Brady, learning how to say yan, tan, tethera, pethera, pimp for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. TICH RIVETT: Well, there's yan, tan, tethera, pethera, pimp. ROGER BOWLEY: Pimp is five. I find that quite nicely amusing. And then, it's cethera, lethera, hoverer, coverer, dik. And then you get onto the next numbers, which are yanadik, because it's 1 and 10. Yanadik, tanadik, tetheradik, p...
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ROGER BOWLEY: I want to talk about the number 15 in English, but it's not English that you know. This is going to be Celtic English, before the Romans came here. So it's not going to be English that comes from German, like ein, zwei, drei, 1, 2, 3. This is the form of English used by shepherds to count their flocks. And I've spent quite a lot of time, Brady, learning how to say yan, tan, tethera, pethera, pimp for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. TICH RIVETT: Well, there's yan, tan, tethera, pethera, pimp. ROGER BOWLEY: Pimp is five. I find that quite nicely amusing. And then, it's cethera, lethera, hoverer, coverer, dik. And then you get onto the next numbers, which are yanadik, because it's 1 and 10. Yanadik, tanadik, tetheradik, p...
