Posted by Ian E-N on August 19, 2013 at 04:06:02 user IanEN.
In Reply to: Re: Numbers posted by Adam Quinan on August 19, 2013 at 03:22:39:
"The word yan or yen for 'one' in some northern English dialects generally represents a regular development in Northern English in which the Old English long vowel /á/ was broken into /ie/, /ia/ and so on."