User:CiphriusKane
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- Scots Corpus (University of Glasgow): https://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/ (double check that any referenced material is actually in Scots, this corpus also hosts English-language material)
- Gilmour's Corpus of 21st Century Scots: https://www.chrisgilmour.co.uk/scots/index.php
- Elphinstone Kist (University of Aberdeen): https://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/kist/
- Dictionaries of the Scots Language: https://dsl.ac.uk/
- Scots Online Dictionary: https://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/index.php (Use with caution and always in concurrence with one of the above resources; sometimes puts up translations that aren't actually used/misinterpreted; Do not use for place names!)
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- Amir Aharoni's tips for translation
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Chynges ti mak
Ceaut/Creaut/Cræft -> Create/Mak (Ceaut gets nae hits on ony soorce listit abeen, creaut is rare an cræft is Auld Inglis; Mak wis uised oreiginally)
Yinly/Yinlie/Anerly/Anerlie/Ainly/Ainlie/ect -> Anely (fur conseistency; yinly/yinlie isna ae wird an aa)
Naw -> Nae (Naw has a speceific case uissage, bit haes been treatit as ae fu on replacement; nae haes evidence fur bein uised fur faar "naw" is)
Claise -> Close (Claise means clothes, nae close)
Delyt[e|ed|it|ion] -> Delet[e|it|ion] (Delyte means delight, nae delete)
Yince/Eence/Aince -> Ance (Conseistency; despite ma aerlier claim, yince is ae wird)
Histerie -> History (Nae evidence aat "histerie" is ae wird)
On- -> Un- (Nae hits fur "ondae" bit there is hits fur "undae", sae kin ainly assume aat the claim aat un- is bad Scots is bogus)
Aneat -> Anent (Typo fix)
Yin/Een/Wan -> Ane (Conseistency/pan-byleidal; the exemples gien is speceific ti certain byleids)
-ee- -> -i-/-ei-/-y- (case bi case basis; a fair few "-ee-" spellins is rare (lik feection; Gilmour's corpus jist gies single uises fur feection an feiction, sae fiction sud be uised, bit veesit haes seeveral hits, mair nor veisit sae kin be uised)
heelp -> help (Nae evidence aat iss exists)
kist -> field (Ae kist is ae chest uised fur storin hings, an on the wab is uised fur ae colleckshun (see Elphinstone Kist, ae colleckshun ae Doric writins), bit shidna be uised fur text fields siclik sairch ingines)
skauk -> scug (scouk, faar skauk cam fae, means the same as scug bit scug is mair aft uised fur fendfu shelter)
gallus -> skaithfu (gallus means cheeky, bit is bein uised fur heichly skaithfu [harmful] stuff; chorin apples fae ae orchard is gallus, doxxin sumbidy is skaithfu)
fer -> fur (conseistency; technically fir, fur, fer an for is aa correct, bit fur is fit's bein uised onwiki)
gif -> gin (gin is mair common on the wiki, bit gif is still ae valid spellin)
thaur -> There (wrangly applyin the "where -> whaur" change; seemlir wirds siclik "haur" shid be changed as weel)
Ti decide
Fae/Frae (Needs discussion; baith is acceptable)
(-)na -> (-)nae (unnder debate, micht be turnt aboot)
aa -> aw (unner debate, micht be turnt aboot)
Reveesion -> Revision (Nae hits fur "reveesion" in Gilmour's Corpus, bit there is hits fur "veesion", sae dis iss apply ti "revision" as weel? "Reveision" wis uised bi aerlier Scowiki editors as weel)