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Author:
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D. E. Stevenson
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Title:
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Counting out Rhymes
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Description:
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Book is Good in no dust jacket. Disbound binding,
Newspaper clipping, Edinburgh, 1942. Here is a very scarce tiny snippet of the writing of Dorothy Emily Stevenson. It is a short letter to a newspaper on the subject of Counting-Out rhymes for sheep counting. It is of more than a little interest to students of the Scots Dialect, and is accompanied by a further short clipping of a letter on the subject from Professor V. Gordon Childe, which explains their Celtic origins. The clippings are pasted onto the flyleaf of a copy of Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, and carefully hand-written into the blank is the numerals for sheep-counting in Borrowdale. We will send with the dictionary, now missing its backstrip, or will extract the page, your choice. Paper yellowed with browned sellotape stain along top part. This is the only non-book piece of D. E. Stevenson's writing that we have come across in several years searching in her native Scotland. The full piece reads: 'Counting-Out Rhymes Moffat, May 5, 1942 Sir,- With reference to the rhyme quoted by Professor W. J. Watson in your issue of to-day, some of your readers may be familiar with the following version which I can well remember from my childhood days. It was almost invariably used on 'counting-out' occasions. I cannot guarantee the spelling, but the words are as I knew them euphonically. The district was Midlothian. Inkty, tinkty, tethery, methery, Bamful, evil, oval, doval, Ding, dell, domino La, ta, touche, Black fish, white trout, Eerie, orie, you go out. - I am &c, D. E. Stevenson.'
Size 64mo keywords: Sheep Counting Rhymes Scots Dialect Borrowdale
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