Template:R:Dictionary of the Scottish Language

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This template may be used in "References" and "Further reading" sections, and on talk pages, to create a link to John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1st edition, 1808, 2 volumes) and the Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1st edition, 1825, 2 volumes). The template can be used to create a link to online versions of the works at Google Books:

• Main work
  • Volume I (A–K).
  • Volume II (L–Z).

• Supplement
  • Volume I (A–J).
  • Volume II (K–Z).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |title= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting the Supplement, use |title=Supplement. Otherwise, if quoting the main work, omit this parameter.
• |1= or |entry= – the entry or headword in the work to be quoted from. If this parameter is omitted, the template uses the name of the Wiktionary entry.
• |smallcaps= – some entries in the work appear in small capital letters. To format an entry in this way, use |smallcaps=on.
• |url= – as the main work has no page numbers, use this parameter to specify the URL of the webpage that you wish the template to link to. If quoting the Supplement, omit this parameter.
• |volume= – the template tries to indicate the volume number of the work quoted, but if it is not doing so correctly (for example, because the entry quoted is a verb beginning with the word To, as in "To FORSPEAK"), use |volume=I or |volume=II to manually specify the volume number.
• |page= or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: unlike the main work, the Supplement has page numbers. Thus, use these parameters to specify the page number(s) quoted from. If using |pages= to quote a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=110–111.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.

• |2= or |column=, or |columns= – the column number(s) to be quoted from in Arabic numerals, either |column=1 or |column=2. When referring to a passage that spans both columns, either omit this parameter or use an en dash like this: |columns=1–2.
• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
• |nodot= – by default, the template adds a full stop (period) at the end of the citation. To suppress this punctuation, use |nodot=1 or |nodot=yes.

A reference to the main work

• Wikitext:
  • {{R:Dictionary of the Scottish Language|entry=To FORSPEAK|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ueg-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP525|volume=I|column=2|passage=One is said to '''''forspeak''''' another, when he so commends him as to have a supposed influence in making him practically belie the commendation. If one highly praises a child for sweetness of temper, and the child soon after betrays ill humour; the person, who bestowed the praise, is said to have '''''forspokin''' the bairn''.}}; or
  • {{R:Dictionary of the Scottish Language|To FORSPEAK|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ueg-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP525|volume=I|2|One is said to '''''forspeak''''' another, when he so commends him as to have a supposed influence in making him practically belie the commendation. If one highly praises a child for sweetness of temper, and the child soon after betrays ill humour; the person, who bestowed the praise, is said to have '''''forspokin''' the bairn''.}}
• Result:
  • 1808, John Jamieson, “To FORSPEAK”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: , volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: University Press; for W Creech, A Constable & Co., and W Blackwood; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, T Cadell & W. Davies, and H. D. Symonds, →OCLC, column 2:

    One is said to forspeak another, when he so commends him as to have a supposed influence in making him practically belie the commendation. If one highly praises a child for sweetness of temper, and the child soon after betrays ill humour; the person, who bestowed the praise, is said to have forspokin the bairn.

    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Wikitext: {{R:Dictionary of the Scottish Language|entry=Hummel-corn|smallcaps=on|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ueg-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP696|passage={{smallcaps|'''Hummel'''-corn}}, ''s'' That kind of grain which wants a beard, as pease, beans, &c.}}
• Result:
  • John Jamieson (1808) “Hummel-corn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: , volumes I (A–K), Edinburgh: University Press; for W Creech, A Constable & Co., and W Blackwood; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, T Cadell & W. Davies, and H. D. Symonds, →OCLC: “Hummel-corn, s[ubstantive] That kind of grain which wants a beard, as pease, beans, &c.”.

A reference to the Supplement

• Wikitext: {{R:Dictionary of the Scottish Language|title=Supplement|entry=Wurlie|smallcaps=on|page=700|column=2|passage='''{{smallcaps|Wurlie}}''', 1. Contemptibly puny, or small in size; as "a '''''wurlie''''' bodie," an ill-grown person, Fife, Loth.}}
• Result:
  • 1825, John Jamieson, “Wurlie”, in Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: , volume II (K–Z), Edinburgh: University Press; for W & C Tait, ; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 700, column 2:

    Wurlie, 1. Contemptibly puny, or small in size; as "a wurlie bodie," an ill-grown person, Fife, Loth.

    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• {{RQ:Dictionary of the Scottish Language}} – for quotations in Wiktionary entries