The Famous Tay Whale Dundee city centre. Paul Godfrey described McGonagall on the strength of the "Tay Whale" and other verse as "the worst poet in the English language". Hugh MacDiarmid wrote of the "Tay Whale" that "what this [the verses about John Wood and the Tay Whale] amounts to, of course, is simply what quite uneducated and stupid people—the two adjectives by no means necessarily go together, for many uneducated people have great vitality and a raciness of utterance altogether lacking here—would produce if asked to recount something they had read in a newspaper." MacDiarmid continued that "in their retailings of, or comments
Bacolod Tay Tung High School appointed principal in SY 2005 with Gil ALfredo Severino, head of English studies. In September 2008, Nilda M. Monge (2008-2013) was installed as the new principal. Dr. Isabelita T. Perigua (2013–present) is the current principal. The Student Council Organization runs programs and services such as leadership development programs, campus activities, TTCB services, health awareness, and community related services. Angelo O. Yao: airline executive, image model, philanthropist Bacolod Tay Tung High School Bacolod Tay Tung High School (Traditional Chinese: 描戈律大同中學, Hanyu Pinyin: MíaoGēLù DàTóng ZhòngXue) is a co-educational Chinese institution in Bacolod City in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. The