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The Basics

• Go to the page you want to annotate
• click on 'edit'
• put [[...]] around the word you want to annotate
• click 'save page'
• then you will see your word highlighted red or with a red underline
• click on it
• add your annotation
• save that page.

It's always worth clicking on 'show preview' before saving a page, to check for typos before saving.

Note that Page 260 to Page 308 are different, because they have three columns.

If a word represents a recurring theme, please add [[Category:<name>]] at the bottom of the page so that they are collected together. See Special:Categories.

Linking a word that is hyphenated over two lines

Put the whole word you want to make the page for and then the hyperlinked text separated by the "|" sign. For instance: [[catapelting|cata-]] for the first line, and then [[catapelting|pelting]] on the next line.. This is called a Piped Link.

Markup for sigla

 Rotated E for HCE
 image: File:HCE.PNG or File:HCE.png
 code: [[Image:HCE.PNG]] or [[Image:HCE.png]] 
 ASCII: no Unicode character currently exists for the trilithon

 Delta for ALP
 image: File:ALP.png
 code: [[Image:ALP.png]]
 Unicode: Δ
 siglum: Δ

 Toppled T or Right Tack for Izzy 
 image: File:Izzy.png 
 code: [[Image:Izzy.png]] 
 Unicode: ⊣
 siglum: ⊣

 Tombstone for the Book/House 
 image: File:Book.png or File:Book.PNG
 code: [[Image:Book.png]] or [[Image:Book.PNG]]
 Unicode: □
 siglum: □

 Chi for the Four 
 image: File:MMLJ.png 
 code: [[Image:MMLJ.png]] 
 Unicode: ×
 siglum: ×

 Lamda for Shaun 
 image: File:Shaun.png 
 code: [[Image:Shaun.png]] 
 Unicode: ⋀
 siglum: ⋀

 Right-facing Crotchet for Shem 
 image: File:Shem.png 
 code: [[Image:Shem.png]] 
 Unicode: ⊏
 siglum: ⊏

Accents

HTML entries for the following language accents:

• Á
  • "&<character>acute;"
• È
  • "&<character>grave;"
• Î
  • "&<character>circ;"
• Õ
  • "&<character>tilde;"
• Ü
  • "&<character>uml;"

Language Abbreviations

Some people like to use abbreviations for languages. Those that have have used the following abbreviations. However, it is friendlier to the reader to just include the whole language name.

Alb Albanian
Am Amaro (Italian underworld slang)
AngI Anglo-Irish
AngInd Anglo-Indian
Ar Armenian (Eastern dialect)
Arab Arabic
Bas Basque
BL Bog Latin (R. A. S. Macalister, The Secret Languages of Ireland)
BLM Beche-la-Mar (Melanesian pidgin)
BNS Bearlagair Na Saer (R. A. S. Macalister, The Secret Languages of Ireland)
Bre Breton
Bul Bulgarian
Bur Burmese
C Chinese
C.f.rom Chinese with French romanization of characters
Cor Cornish
C.Pi Chinese pidgin
Cz Czech
Da Danish
DN Dano-Norwegian (Bokmal)
Du Dutch
Es Esperanto
F French
Fi Finnish
G German
Gi Gipsy (Romany)
Gr Greek (ancient)
Heb Hebrew
Hin Hindustani
Hu Hungarian (Magyar)
I Irish (Irish Gaelic)
Ice Icelandic
It Italian
J Japanese
Ki Kiswahili (Swahili)
L Latin
Li Lithuanian
Ma Malay
ME Middle English
MGr Modern Greek
MI Middle Irish
N Norwegian (Nynorsk)
OCS Old Church Slavonic
OE Old English
OF Old French
OI Old Irish
O Ice Old Icelandic
ON Old Norse
Per Persian
Port Portuguese
Pro Provençal (Langue d'Oc)
PS Pan-Slavonic
R Russian
RR Rhaeto-Romanic (Roumansch)
Rum Rumanian (Romanian)
Rut Ruthenian (Ukrainian)
Sa Samoan
SC Serbo-Croat
Sh Shelta (R. A. S. Macalister, The Secret Languages of Ireland)
Skt Sanskrit
Sp Spanish
Sw Swedish
SwG Swiss-German
T Turkish
Vo Volopük (artificial language)
We Welsh

More help

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