#Scotstober #broonie The longest entries in Jamieson's Dictionary are not (as in OED) for polysemous verbs, but for Scottish folklore & customs (YULE is the longest). His entry for BROWNIE takes up two whole columns and discusses its possible origins and comparative ethnology.

#Scotstober #sithean Jamieson doesn’t have an entry for SITHEAN, as in his day, it was a Gaelic word that had not yet been adopted into Scots. He does however quote the word in his entry for FAIRY-HILLOCKS ('verdant knolls'), which was the 19th-century Lowland word for them.

#Scotstober #cauld CAULD KAIL HET AGAIN ‘broth warmed on the second day; figuratively used to denote a sermon that is repeated, or preached again to the same audience’. As a minister himself, Jamieson would have been keen to avoid the charge of dishing out ‘cauld kail’ sermons!

Een o the maist weel thoucht o Scots poyems fae the 18th c. is Robert Forbes’s owersettin, ‘Ajax his speech to the Grecian knabbs’ (1742), fit transforms Ovid’s original intae summin mair ballad like 🏛️ digital.nls.uk/antiquarian-bo…

We are pleased to share the Call for Papers of our 13th International Conference "More than Words: Lexical Variation and Change across Cultures, Time, and Space", 27-29 Sep 2023, University of Salerno, Italy. Deadline for abstract submission: 14 Jan 2023 lvc3886.wixsite.com/ichll2023/call…

Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography Lecture by Lynda Mugglestone: "Famous Last Words? On Closure and its Challenges in the History of English" blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-society… 21 October 2022, 17.30 EET

Explore oor spooky Scots Hallaeen tales, poems, tradeetions, an a wheen o eldritch wirds! ➡️ ow.ly/Hu1E50LoZTC #Scots #ScotsLanguage

...The light shows in a frightful manner the face formed with blacking on the outside, S. - Jamieson's Supplement (1825)

#Scotstober #neepwords MORT-HEAD, s. 2. A large turnip excavated, with the representation of a face cut through the side, and a lighted candle put within. This is carried about under night, by mischievous boys, as an object of terror, S. - Jamieson's Supplement (1825)

Well done to ✨Lentil Pentil✨ @HistoricAlly Billy Kay Iona Fyfe @scotlit Hist Scots Thesaurus Dictionaries of the Scots Language & others for their arles in the leid of Burns,Dunbar, Ramsay & Scott to a new generation. Some of the most globally significant writers of the last 250 years wrote in it

An extract for #Scotstober #grumlie day from a poem scrievit by the guid Dr Jamieson himself, & printed for the Bannatyne Club in 1828. 'To deep-lored Hailes how much we owe, Quha taucht our shepherds first to know .../

Delighted & honoured to have been asked to contribute to this update on Scottish lexicographers, viz. a much expanded article on John Jamieson & new entries on William Grant of the SND & Alexr Warrack. Excellent articles also by Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social, Marina Dossena & Massimo Sturiale.

William Grant (1863–1946), who features in @odnb Dec update, was the 1st editor of the Scottish National Dictionary. Work on SND continued after his death & is now part of the online Dict of the Scots Language. @scotsdictionars Scots Language Centre @scotgovscots oxforddnb.com/newsitem/789/w…

Jamieson's Dictionary Marina Dossena Particularly glad of the opportunity to bring James McLeod Wyllie's remarkable (and tragic) story to a wider audience. For those prevented by a paywall from reading the @ODNB article, see tinyurl.com/mrxr6pwf (sorry, current version of this page n/a)

Just some of the important lexicographic works compiled or overseen by William Grant, whose work is now justly celebrated in a new entry in the @odnb - including the very first fascicle of the Scottish National Dictionary, published in 1931. Read more at oxford.ly/48BEYP9

This is such sad news. Patrick was the key speaker at the 1st ScotLex Symposium @RoyalSocEdin in 2016. He was full of enthusiasm for the Scottish lexicographic projects on show & was especially encouraging to younger lexicographers. He will be greatly missed & fondly remembered.

Dictionaries of the Scots Language For the sake of accuracy, it is important to note that the @odnb has included an entry on John Jamieson since its first edition in 1891. The new article was commissioned to replace previous versions to take account of recent scholarship on Jamieson’s work and influence.

It's Jamieson Day! The Rev. Dr John Jamieson, author of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language, was born #OTD on 3 March, 1759. nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artist…

You can read more about Jamieson’s life and work on the Jamieson Dictionary website: jamiesondictionary.com/jamiesons-life….