The spelling "Lanerks[hire]" for "Lanarks[hire]" appears to be the accepted spelling for this period, and therefore has been left unchanged.
Five instances of Kings Quair have been corrected to King's Quair.
St (no period) Androis is the normal spelling. The spelling St. Androis appears only once (s.v. INSPRAICH), and has been left unchanged.
The cited source is often abbreviated, through lack of space: for example Doug. for Douglas, Houl. for Houlate. These abbreviations have been left unchanged.
There are also numerous inconsistencies in the abbreviation of recurring phrases, which have been left unchanged. For example Palice of Honour, Palice Honour, Pal. of Hon., Pal. Hon..
In entries where the numbers "1." "2." "3." &c. are clearly missing, they have been inserted.
In the original dictionary, capital E acute looks like Eʹ; e.g. p. 69: BOUNTEʹ, for BOUNTÉ. There is also Aʹ representing Á (in FAʹ and FORSTAʹ). But this has to be distinguished from such phrases as "A' the kit" (p. 226) which is an apostrophe indicating missing letters (usually "ll"): "All the kit".
Only two of the Greek words have accents and breathings. No changes have been made to the presence or absence of accents in any Greek words.
In the phrase "A bursen belch or bilch" (s.v. BELCH) there is a missing closing quotation mark. The precise location of the missing mark is uncertain, and the text has therefore not been changed.
The cross-reference "V. [Get]" under "GATE, s. Jet." cannot be linked correctly since the only entry for "GET" has nothing to do with "Jet".