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  2. Glasgow dialect - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Th-fronting - Wikipedia

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    Th-fronting is a prominent feature of several dialects of English, notably Cockney, Essex dialect, Estuary English, some West Country and Yorkshire dialects, Manchester English, [2] African American Vernacular English, and Liberian English, as well as in many non-native English speakers (e.g. Hong Kong English, though the details differ among ...

  4. Limmy - Wikipedia

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    He made a cameo appearance in The IT Crowd, playing a window cleaner with an unintelligible Glaswegian accent in the episode "The Final Countdown", which aired in July 2010. [ 18 ] In 2014, Limmy had a regular segment in the second series of the Charlie Brooker news satire show Weekly Wipe .

  5. Tom Leonard (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Published in 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems has been called 'epoch-making'. [1] The poems were first published as an insert in Glasgow University Magazine. [9]In 1984, he released Intimate Voices, a selection of his work from 1965 onwards including poems and essays on William Carlos Williams and "the nature of hierarchical diction in Britain."

  6. Glaswegian - Wikipedia

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    Glaswegian is the associated adjective and demonym of Glasgow, a city of the Scottish Lowlands in Scotland. It may refer to: It may refer to: Anything from or related to the city of Glasgow, in particular:

  7. Scots language - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of bands and musicians from Glasgow - Wikipedia

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  9. Celtic Symphony (Wolfe Tones song) - Wikipedia

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    The Republic of Ireland women's national football team's sang the song in the dressing room following their play-off win over Scotland in Glasgow on 11 October 2022 to qualify for the 2023 World Cup. Subsequently, the Football Association of Ireland manager Vera Pauw and players Chloe Mustaki and Áine O'Gorman apologised.