Posted by Adam Quinan on August 19, 2013 at 03:22:39 user Adam.
In Reply to: Numbers posted by Ed Kiser on August 18, 2013 at 18:00:09:
Jackie's "yin" for one is I believe Ransome trying to express his dialect pronunciation of the word "one" not a separate system of counting. It is quite common in descriptions of speech from Scotland as well, see any of John Buchan's works set in the Borders.
For example
"But I'm no socialist, and I would have ye keep mind of that. I'm yin o' the old Border radicals, and I'm not like to change." spoken by Andrew Amos in Mr Standfast.
Dougal in Huntingtower " I've found a ladder, an auld yin in ahint yon lot o' bushes."