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Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bumfit-dik?

[–] TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't make that up. And some of the regional variations are far worse to modern ears. It's the old celtic numerals - after a millennium or so of speaking english instead,, and a traditional counting out "rhyme". If you are counting real live sheep, you count each one and at the end of the series tie a knot in a piece of string. The number of knots at the end give you the number of sheep in multiples of 20. This is how you count sheep to fall asleep - recite the list in your head. Over and over.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Look up scots (NOT gaelic), lotta these words survive