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Glasgow Standard English (GSE), the Glaswegian form of Scottish English, spoken by most middle-class speakers; Glasgow vernacular (GV), the dialect of many working-class speakers, which is historically based on West-Central Scots, but which shows strong influences from Irish English, its own distinctive slang and increased levelling towards GSE ...
Chairboys (from the football club, and the town's former industry), Willyous (Wycombe as an acronym: "Will You Come Over, My Bed's Empty") Highlands and Islands (of Scotland) Teuchters, used by other Scots and sometimes applied by Greater Glasgow natives to anyone speaking in a dialect other than Glaswegian Hinckley Tin Hatters Holmes Chapel
Motto: Rupto robore nati [Latin, 'We are born in a weak condition'] Chief: none, armigerous clan. Seat: Aikenhead, Lanarkshire. Ainslie [4] Crest: Issuing out of a cap of maintenance a naked arm embowed grasping a scymitar all Proper. Motto: Pro patria saepe pro rege semper [Latin, 'For country often, for king always'] Chief: none, armigerous clan
The coat of arms of Glasgow is the official emblem of the city of Glasgow. It was first granted by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in 1866, and was re-granted to the current city council in 1996. [ 2 ] The design references several legends associated with Saint Mungo , the patron saint of Glasgow.
The youngest of three brothers, [3] Robert Kerr Fulton was born into a non-theatrical family at 46 Appin Road, [4] Dennistoun, Glasgow. [5] Fulton's mother, who was 40 at the time of his birth, developed severe postnatal depression. Due to this, Fulton grew up a "solitary child" and developed a "voracious reading habit" throughout his childhood ...
y for the /əi/ sound in words like wynd and mynd, but if it's at the beginning or end of a word use ey (eydent, stey, wey) eu for the sound in words like aneuch, speug, neuk-k for final -ct in words like object and expect (which become objek and expek) sk-for initial /sk/ (sclim → sklim, scrieve → skreive, scunner → skunner)
Duo has a rare condition called diprosopus or craniofacial duplication, which means she has one head, two mouths, two noses and four eyes. Kitten born with 2 faces overcomes incredible odds Skip ...
Alexander Smith was the eldest of eight, possibly nine, children born to John Smith (1803–1884) and Christina née Murray (1804–1881). John Smith was a pattern designer for the textile trade; he worked variously in Paisley and in Kilmarnock, where Alexander was born, before moving to Glasgow when Alexander was about eight years old.