Word: refered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just been a-readin' that right-and-proper rebuke that was sent to you from England ITi.ME, March 12]. Mr. G. Ovendale, over there says you sound like a Kahlege Kid from the Bible Belt when you refer to the King of England as George...
Airmail Sirs: I have been a TIME enthusiast and subscriber since my undergraduate days. At times some of your pert comments have nettled me but in your March 5 issue I find a type of journalism that I consider distinctly unTIME-worthy. I refer to the article, "Army's First Week" under your Aeronautics section...
Once more the CRIMSON scoops the field! Although it was not emphasized in any yellow-press, sensational style, the news contained in this (Monday) morning's CRIMSON is indeed startling. I refer, of course, to the notice concerning "brother Kelton" in the Playgoer's column on page four. Considering how feminine a young lady Pert Kelton was only a picture or two ago, I find it quite remarkable that "he" can now fit a gangster part perfectly, crack a crib with "his" underlings...
...usually refer to the British Monarch as "George V,'' and couch the rest of the reference in language which suggests the outlook of a Kahlege Kid from the Bible Belt, rather than of the only newspaper with a modern orientated intelligence published in the Anglo-Saxon tongue...
...Correct English" is an unrealistic, pedantic legend, and the quicker we get rid of it, the better. For authorities I refer the Doctor to any elementary course in linguistic science, and to Dr. Edward Sapir, [Sterling professor] of the Yale University Department of Anthropology and Linguistics and head of a committee to bring out a New English Grammar to describe the language as it really is instead of for harassing school children with artificial, pseudo-classical prescriptions and "rules"-or to anybody who has at least an inkling of the true nature of language and its principles...