Word: weel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine sentence. I hae nae doot the chap that wrote it read it twice or oftener, and smile't at his ain smertness. I widna say but he compare't himsel (muckle tae his ain advantage) wi' that Ayrshire yokel, Rabbie Burns. Rabble's fairly weel ken't the day in the literary world, some hunner and forty year efter his first lines appeared in prent. The Faem o' the author o' "the gaping Ayrshire yokels" should gang thunnerin' doon the ages for five hunner year at least. Anither writer chiel, that...
...room assumes some such motto as Love, Honor and Purity then someone is lying and ought to have his mouth washed out with soap. The type setter's quartet broadcasting "Sweet Adcline" before the evening's work, for all the world like a lot of Big Brothers from Station WEEL was about as indigestible a thought as the movies have put over in some time. If the wrecking crew down stairs ever did such a thing there would be just one reason for it and a lot of funny looking headlines the next...
Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest...
Being a former Glaswegian, I can't let you get away with that?not that it matters. I like your magazine gey weel all the way and do what I can to get them reading it around here...