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Eenty Feenty Halligolun

Date August 1954
Track ID 3791
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1954.101

Original Tape ID

SA1954.101

Summary

Children's counting-out rhyme.

Eenty teenty halligalin
The cat went oot tae hae some fun,
Hae some fun on Toddie's grun,
But cairt an horse tummelt.

Item Notes

The Celtic sheep-counting numerals, which go up to the score in the traditional dialects of North-West England, only go up to ten in Scots, and usually only two ('eenty teenty' or similar) in children's rhymes, with no records in Scots earlier than the 18th c.

See:
'I Saw Esau' (P. & I. Opie, 1947) p. 55
'Golden City' (J.T. Ritchie, 1965) p. 46
'Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee' (E. McVicar, 2007) pp. 90, 92
'The Scottish National Dictionary' (available online [[www.dsl.ac.uk]], accessed 26 January 2009), s.v. baombe

Recording Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Aberdeen

Village/Place - Aberdeen

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R19276

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good