Talk:thester
This entry for the English language has a single source which is the dictionary of the Scots language. This entry should be corrected to be listed as Scots, with the IPA notation corrected to the actual Scots pronunciation. — This unsigned comment was added by Haarle (talk • contribs) at 19:31, 17 April 2020 (UTC).
- First of all, we go by usage, not by authoritative references like Wikipedia does. There's a good chance this is purely Scots, but we have a procedure for checking (see WT:CFI). Second, there's an awful lot more to changing the language of an entry than just changing the header. It would be using different templates, or at least different language codes, and the language section would be in a different place on the page. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:50, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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An attempt was made to convert this to a Scots entry by changing the L2 header (would that it were that simple). Before taking it the rest of the way, though, is there any possibility that this might have some Early Modern or Northern English usage? Chuck Entz (talk) 04:18, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
- I don't think so. I can find plenty of uses in Middle English. But once we get into Modern English, (even very early Modern English) everything I find turns out to be a scanno of "chester". In more recent Modern English, its mostly scannos of "theater". I found one very early Modern English text which had "thester wyke" which was glossed as "the Easter week". Other than that, all I could find was the following:
- 1950, Publications - Volumes 2-3, page 107:
- Cloune was in the said Devision geven to Eynon fab Collion and was some tyme a parke belonginge to the Castle of Llantrisaint, but now his Lordshipes parke is removed to thester parte of that Lordship which hath free tenantes customary tenantes as aforesaid, and leases nowe sett by Indenture for iii lives.
- which might support the definition, but not clearly so. Kiwima (talk) 07:08, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
- I don't think so. I can find plenty of uses in Middle English. But once we get into Modern English, (even very early Modern English) everything I find turns out to be a scanno of "chester". In more recent Modern English, its mostly scannos of "theater". I found one very early Modern English text which had "thester wyke" which was glossed as "the Easter week". Other than that, all I could find was the following:
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 02:22, 24 May 2020 (UTC)