Template:RQ:Swift English Tongue

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Swift English Tongue/documentation.

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Jonathan Swift's work A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue (2nd edition, 1712); the 1st edition published in the same year (London: Benj Tooke, , 1712; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

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

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, “some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell”) rather than an actual use of it (for example, “we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset”), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Swift English Tongue|page=23|passage=Not only the ſeveral Towns and Countries{{sic|Counties}} of ''England'', have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in ''London'' they '''clip''' their Words after one Manner about the Court, another in the City, and a third in the Suburbs; and in a few Years, it is probable, will all differ from themſelves, as Fancy or Faſhion ſhall direct: All which, reduced to Writing, would entirely confound Orthography.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Swift English Tongue|23|Not only the ſeveral Towns and Countries{{sic|Counties}} of ''England'', have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in ''London'' they '''clip''' their Words after one Manner about the Court, another in the City, and a third in the Suburbs; and in a few Years, it is probable, will all differ from themſelves, as Fancy or Faſhion ſhall direct: All which, reduced to Writing, would entirely confound Orthography.}}
• Result:
  • 1712 March 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; , 2nd edition, London: Benj Tooke, , published 1712, →OCLC, page 23:

    Not only the ſeveral Towns and Countries of England, have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in London they clip their Words after one Manner about the Court, another in the City, and a third in the Suburbs; and in a few Years, it is probable, will all differ from themſelves, as Fancy or Faſhion ſhall direct: All which, reduced to Writing, would entirely confound Orthography.