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.
 * 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)

RFV discussion: April–May 2020
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:
 * which might support the definition, but not clearly so. Kiwima (talk) 07:08, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * which might support the definition, but not clearly so. Kiwima (talk) 07:08, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 02:22, 24 May 2020 (UTC)