From: Charles Richmond [richmond@ev1.net] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:43 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Sv: Younger recruits versus experienced veterans ( was The demise of compaq ) of compaq ) of compaq ) Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote: > > In article > nico@farumdata.dk "Nico de Jong" writes: > > [snip...] [snip...] [snip...] > > [1] In Cumbria, they're still quite proud of their "sheep score", in > which they count in twenties, beginning "Yan, tan, tithera, mithera, > pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick..." It's clear that this > has originally a Celtic basis. Back in the early 1970s someone did his > PhD at Lancaster University on "sheep scores", documenting their usage > even in "civilized" parts of the UK (like Epping Forest, less then ten > miles from London) as late as the 19th century, and showing that they > were all cognate. He'd even found reports of some native American tribe > (the Wawentoc Indians) being discovered in northern Maine in the very > early 16th century using a similar counting method: which must give some > credence to the idea that the Welshman Madoc did go to America in the > first millennium AD. > > -- The Wewentoc Indians and the Cumbrians counting the same way...to me says that they were *both* effected by the Vikings. It is pretty well known that the Vikings visited the coast of Maine long before Columbus ever set foot in America... -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | +-------------------------------------------------------------+