Online Scottish Dictionary Launched

Dundee University has launched a Scottish dictionary that incorporates both the twelve-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the ten-volume Scottish National Dictionary. It's available at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/ .

The dictionary is searchable by full-entry and "headword" ("searches for Scots and English words spelled as in the main dictionary entries, but will also try to suggest matches"). A search for "mog" by headword found only one result, but a full entry search for mog found ten results, from Nutemug to Moger. Listings include definition and examples; sometimes there are cross references. (I saw once where there was a word listed with examples but there was no definition, and at least one cross-reference -- Muggy -- which didn't have an exact search result.)

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