Historically, which group of people in Northern Britain used a counting system called "Yan Tan Tethera"?

Correct answer: Shepherds

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Player en_846
Player en_846
Nineteen, twenty.. and those three sheep over there.
WalksBySelf
WalksBySelf
My Cumbrian dad used to count like this. Yan tan, tethera, nethera, pip. I never learnt what comes next
Coo
Coo
It's not Northern Britain, it's Northern England! Northern Britain is Scotland.
Fograt61
Fograt61
luckycatfay, check out Jake Thackery, old Molly Metcalfe
Sue
Sue
Player en_846, that made me laugh. I
luckycatfay
luckycatfay
Never heard of it and how do you count to twenty must be other words.
Its Adliman, yeah
Its Adliman, yeah
how in the DarkSide should i know this?