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Usage
This template may be used in "References" and "Further reading" sections, and on talk pages, to create a link to The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL).
A guide to abbreviations and symbols used in the Dictionary can be found here.
Parameters
|1=or|entry=– the name of the entry in the DSL. If this parameter is not stated, the name of the Wiktionary entry is used.|2=,|pos=, or|part of speech=– the part of speech of the entry. By default, the template italicizes the value assigned to the parameter and adds a full stop (period) to the end. To turn off the default formatting for the purpose of specifying a different formatting using wikitext markup and templates, specify|noformat=1or|noformat=yes: see the example below.|url=– if the default URL is not linking to the correct webpage, use this parameter to indicate the URL of the DSL webpage to be linked to.|subentry=– a term that appears as a subentry under an entry.|subpos=– the part of speech of the subentry.|accessdate=– The date on which the DSL was accessed. Use either of these date formats: 1 January 2017 or January 1, 2017.|source=– use this parameter to indicate the source relied on by the DSL, as follows:|3=,|text=, or|passage=– a passage quoted from the DSL.|nodot=– by default, the template adds a full stop (period) at the end of the citation. To suppress this punctuation, use|nodot=1or|nodot=yes.
Examples
- Wikitext:
{{R:Dictionary of the Scots Language|accessdate=30 January 2017}}(assuming the template is used on the page taghairm) - Result: “taghairm”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 30 January 2017.
- Wikitext:
{{R:Dictionary of the Scots Language|entry=taghairm|pos=n|source=SND|accessdate=30 January 2017|passage=A form of divination said to have been practised of old in the Highlands}}; or{{R:Dictionary of the Scots Language|taghairm|n|source=SND|accessdate=30 January 2017|A form of divination said to have been practised of old in the Highlands}}
- Result: “taghairm, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 30 January 2017, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC: “A form of divination said to have been practised of old in the Highlands”
- Wikitext:
{{R:Dictionary of the Scots Language|entry=fard, faird|pos=''n.''{{sup|1}}|noformat=1|url=https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/fard_n_1|source=DOST|accessdate=30 January 2017}} - Result: “fard, faird, n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 30 January 2017, reproduced from William A Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
See also
{{RQ:Dictionary of the Scottish Language}}– for quotations in Wiktionary entries