Wiktionary talk:About Scots

Vote on merging Scots into English

For findability: a vote to unify Scots into English decisively failed: Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2019-02/Treat Scots as English. - -sche (discuss) 01:58, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Policies about Scots headwords

Scots does not have any standard orthography the way English does. This results in variant spellings for one word, compounded by dialectal pronunciations. How should we create policies about the headword of each Scots word? For reference, the major Scots dictionaries are A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (12 volumes, 1931-2002, Oxford University Press) and The Scots National Dictionary (10 volumes, Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931-1976), both of which are reproduced online on the Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) by Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Other dictionaries include Concise Scots Dictionary (2nd ed, Edinburgh University Press, 2017) which is primarily based on A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and The Scots National Dictionary. YukaSylvie (talk) 21:52, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

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See the thread at Beer parlour. YukaSylvie (talk) 03:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Conjugation

How should we display the conjugation of each Scots verb like Template:en-verb and Template:en-conj? How should we approach the Northern Subject Rule, variant spellings for each grammatical category of a verb, and the distinction between the present participle and the gerund in older Scots and some dialects of modern Scots? At least the headword should have the present, the simple past, the present participle, and the past participle. But I am unsure whether the conjugation table should have the narrative present, the subjunctive, the imperative, and the gerund as well. YukaSylvie (talk) 02:21, 29 September 2024 (UTC)