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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 ]
A music video to accompany the release of "If" was first released onto YouTube on the same day. The video features William Shatner and is Glasvegas' take on The Old Grey Whistle Test . "We played on the Late Show with Craig Ferguson in LA a couple of years ago and William Shatner introduced us as he is a fan of the band," Allan said.
Glaswegian, Keelies, [42] [43] Weegies [44] Glastonbury Glastoids, Ding-a-Lings (a centre of New Age activity) Glossop Hillmen (due to its proximity to the Peak District), Tuppies (after the P. G. Wodehouse character Tuppy Glossop) Gloucester Gloucestrians, Glozzies Godalming Godalmingers, God-all-mingers (pejorative) Golborne Gollums Goole ...
Scots [note 1] is a language variety descended from Early Middle English in the West Germanic language family.Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, the Northern Isles of Scotland, and northern Ulster in Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots), it is sometimes called: Lowland Scots, to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language that was historically ...
Ah've heard folk use 'rocket' tae mean 'mento' but ah've also heard enough folk use it tae mean 'stupit' tae say it means baith, at least in some areas. Plus folk say "in ma puff" aw the time here in Maryhill. As for 'jeg', its a bit ay an older word and 'click', as far as ah know, is an older word meanin 'git aff wae'.
General items are wee, the Scots word for small (also common in Canadian English, New Zealand English and Hiberno-English probably under Scottish influence); wean or bairn for child (the latter from Common Germanic, [27] cf modern Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese barn, West Frisian bern and also used in Northern English dialects ...
Producer, mastering engineer, and programmer Alex McNutt (of Glaswegian bands June and Paige. Louis Abbott (of Scottish indie-folk group Admiral Fallow ) came in for guitar and vocals. Dave Reekie (of Scottish alternative pop outfit Otherpeople [ 5 ] ) was brought in to play bass, and Peter Kelly (of Scottish psychedelic rock trio Moon Unit and ...
The theme music used on the TV broadcasts of the show is an excerpt from "Cuban Boy", [29] as recorded by The Cuban Boys, which is itself based on a sample of Frank Chacksfield's track of the same name from the album West of Sunset. The opening and ending theme tune was changed to an entirely different theme on the BBC DVD and Netflix releases ...