{"id":16304,"date":"2012-04-28T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/rywsut\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2012-04-28T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T11:07:23","slug":"when-you-get-to-jiggit-put-a-stone-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16304","title":{"rendered":"When you get to jiggit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/herdwicks.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 15px;\" alt=\"Herdwick sheep at Ullswater, from: http:\/\/www.shelwin.com\/e\/sheep\/sheep.htm\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a little ditty I came up with recently and which incorporates the old sheep scoring numbers and a bit about their history. I first discovered these numbers in a book about Cumbrian dialect in Lancaster library one day many years ago while I was waiting for my train home from school. The numbers I use here come from Keswick in Cumbria. There are many other versions from all over England, Wales and Scotland.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>When you get to jiggit<\/h3>\n<p>A long time ago in a land not so far away<br \/>\nThe shepherds did count their sheep in this way<br \/>\nAnd the children did use these numbers in their play<br \/>\nAnd this is what they\u2019d say.<\/p>\n<p>Yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp<br \/>\nsethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick<br \/>\nyanadick, tanadick, tetherdick,<br \/>\npetheradick, bumfit, yanabumfit, tanabumfit,<br \/>\ntetherabumfit, petherabumfit, jiggit.<\/p>\n<p>And when you get to jiggit put a stone in your pocket<br \/>\na stone in your pocket<br \/>\na stone in your pocket<br \/>\nWhen you get to jiggit put a stone in your pocket<br \/>\na stone in your pocket<br \/>\nSo you know how many jiggits you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n<p>The last remaining fragments of long-forgotten Celtic tongues<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what they\u2019re thought to be.<br \/>\nCollected mainly during the 19th century<br \/>\nIn many parts of the north country.<br \/>\nAnd they go &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp<br \/>\nsethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick<br \/>\nyanadick, tanadick, tetherdick,<br \/>\npetheradick, bumfit, yanabumfit, tanabumfit,<br \/>\ntetherabumfit, petherabumfit, jiggit.<\/p>\n<p>And when you get to jiggit put a stone in your pocket<br \/>\na stone in your pocket<br \/>\na stone in your pocket<br \/>\nWhen you get to jiggit put a stone in your pocket<br \/>\na stone in your pocket<br \/>\nSo you know how many jiggits you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recording:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F53521202\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I sang this in public for the first time last night at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/8255550674\/\">Poetica<\/a>, an evening of poetry and music at the Blue Sky Caf\u00e9 in Bangor, and it went down well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/celtic2.htm\">More information about the sheep scoring numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a little ditty I came up with recently and which incorporates the old sheep scoring numbers and a bit about their history. I first discovered these numbers in a book about Cumbrian dialect in Lancaster library one day many years ago while I was waiting for my train home from school. The numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}