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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18961, 7 January 1930, Page 11

After twenty years’ preparation the plan to bring out a “ Scottish National Dictionary ” has at last taken definite shape. A company has been formed to publish it, with Lord Meston as honorary president, Sir Joseph Dobbie as president and Mr W. Grant, of the Training Centre, Aberdeen, as Li-cary Director and Editor. The dictionary will be brought out in ten or more parts, and will cost £ls. It will fill a long-felt want. The only standard authority at present is, of course, Jamieson’s dictionary, first published in 1808, and revised in the ’eighties. But Jamieson is now out of date; the “ O.E.D. ” and the “ English L)ialeet Dictionary” have opened new paths, and have roused Scottish etymologists to follow them. Sir William Ciaigie’s projected “ Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue ” will cover part of the ground, but the “ National Dictionary ” will concentrate more particularly on the period between 1700 and the. pre-