BAI-THE-BAI!
Mr 0. N. Baeyertz is a stickler for the pure, unadulterated English. He has complimented the young people of Masterton upon the respect they have for the mother tongue. Those young ifbik who are going "dahn taihn bai-and-lbai'' will not be on speaking terms with a judge who ridicules their idiosyncracy. The future generation will be the better, however, for (being told that it is neither evidence, of good breeding nor of refined education to murder the King's English, 'ine tendency in many of the higher scholastic institutions to create a distinctive class dialect, or drawl, cannot be too strongly depre- j cated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10286, 14 July 1911, Page 4
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104BAI-THE-BAI! Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10286, 14 July 1911, Page 4
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