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Morgan was born in Glasgow and grew up in Rutherglen. His parents were Presbyterian. He convinced his parents to finance his membership of several book clubs in Glasgow. The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) was a "revelation" to him, he later said. [2] Morgan entered the University of Glasgow in 1937.
The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [ 3 ]
Blackpudlians (demonym), Black Puddings, Sand Grown 'Uns, Seasiders, Donkey Lashers / Botherers (the town has been rumoured to feature a donkey brothel) [11] Bloxwich Bollockers Blyth Sparts (after the Blyth Spartans A. F. C. football club), Blitherers Bognor Regis Boggers, Bog Buggers (pejorative, alludes to the last words of King George V ...
Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional. Notable examples are cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds.
Its first printed use came as early as 1991 in William G. Hawkeswood's "One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men," wherein one of the subjects used the word "tea" to mean ...
The British Guiana-born Andrew Watson is widely considered to be the world's first association footballer of Black heritage (his father was White and mother Black) to play at international level. [14] [15] [16] He was capped three times for Scotland between 1881 and 1882.
"Billy Boys", also titled "The Billy Boys", [1] is a loyalist song from Glasgow, sung to the tune of "Marching Through Georgia". [1] It originated in the 1920s as the signature song of one of the Glasgow razor gangs led by Billy Fullerton [ 2 ] and later became viewed to reflect the long-running sectarian religious hatred directed by some ...
Glasgow became a county in 1893, the city having previously been in the historic county of Lanarkshire, and later growing to also include settlements that were once part of Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire. It now forms the Glasgow City Council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and is administered by Glasgow City Council.