Word: tae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sennin' ye back TIME for Sept. 24 jist as it cam tae me, because I haena time tae strauchen it oot. If TIME hisna time tae fauld it ony ither wy than on the bias, an' wi' the aidges o't crush't an' crumple't like the heid o' a pine brod that has been hemmer't by a 10 year auld boy, I dinna want it, for I haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer...
...Lord Stevenson was a bad yin. I see ye dinna owerleuk him in yer last issue. He was anither o' thae Ayrshire Yokels. He gaed tae the same schule as I did masel'. I wunner what Jix was thinkin' o' himsel', addressin' the like...
...canna quite mak' oot what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps...
...titles with which the articles are captioned give some idea of the way in which this magazine represents student life in America: "Dan Cupid in the Colleges." "Tipplers and Toddlers." "The Hot Date and the O. F. G." "Girls Be yourself." Tae stories themselves are full of cheap witticisms and the coarse sensationalism usually confined to yellow journals and moving pictures. The coeducational feature is stressed to the limit, and beyond. Just what excuse there is for the publication of such a magazine it seems hard to imagine. If people must write about colleges why not do it truthfully...