This important volume is soon going to be looking very tatty on the shelves of those who will use it frequently.
However, it must be admitted that vast areas have some increasingly tatty and uncared for parts, and fly-posting contributes a great deal to that.
Does he agree that too many of our roads, streets and public places are tatty at best and too often downright filthy?
On the one hand, the market is too grandiose and on the other, it is tatty.
Did freepost come through my letterbox advertising the local haggis, tatties and neeps restaurant and the local kilt outfitter?
It may also produce a form of newsprint which looks rather tatty.
In a few months we shall regard the price lists as tatty and dog-eared mementoes of a former age which we do not quite understand.
The tatty draft order that we have does not give a price.