Bruce Beckham's Blog - Posts Tagged "cumbric"
Word of the day: bumfit
I've just been researching some local Cumbrian language (Cumbria being the larger geographical region that contains England's Lake District).
It seems that shepherds still count using the ancient Brittonic language that dates back to pre-Roman times, when the Britons spoke in something resembling modern-day Welsh.
And apparently different versions of this are used in many rural parts of the north of England to this day.
One-to-ten in Skelgill's stamping ground goes something like this:
1 yan, 2 tyan, 3 tethera, 4 methera, 5 pimp, 6 sethera, 7 lethera, 8 hovera, 9 dovera, 10 dick.
It seems that 15 is bumfit.
Needless to say, these will provide some entertainment in a forthcoming scene!
It seems that shepherds still count using the ancient Brittonic language that dates back to pre-Roman times, when the Britons spoke in something resembling modern-day Welsh.
And apparently different versions of this are used in many rural parts of the north of England to this day.
One-to-ten in Skelgill's stamping ground goes something like this:
1 yan, 2 tyan, 3 tethera, 4 methera, 5 pimp, 6 sethera, 7 lethera, 8 hovera, 9 dovera, 10 dick.
It seems that 15 is bumfit.
Needless to say, these will provide some entertainment in a forthcoming scene!
