Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — Plaid and Tartan. [ARTICLE]

Plaid and Tartan.

Will the southron ever learn that “plaid” is not a synonym for “tartan”? Not long ago an Englishmans came Into a hosier’s establishment in Glasgow and asked a man behind the counter to show him some “plaid ties.” The attendant, ’ perhaps wondering what this new and weird article of wearing apparel could was completely baffled until explanation elicited the fact that a necktie with a tartan design was required. Dickens, too. is a sinner in this respect, for he makes Bob Sawyer say with regard to whether his political proclivities are “buff” or “blue.” “I’m a kind of plaid at present, a compound of all sorts of colors.” Moreover, an English dictionary gives an adjectival picaning of plaid”, as "colored in squares.” I’ve never heard such use in Scotland. Has anyone else?—Scottish Field.