Stephen Dougherty <[log in to unmask]> wrote at Sun, 7 Apr 2019 23:25:52 +0100:-
> ...
> As a wild card, I wondered if it could be derived from the Millom-Cumbrian
> sheep-counting number for three, 'para' (plus -ton).
> Maybe there were three original enclosures very close to one another, hence Par(a)ton.
> ...
Where is a list of these old sheep-counting systems?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera
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