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Scottish soap opera River City has featured neds such as Shellsuit Bob. [18] Neds is a 2010 film by director Peter Mullan. [19] A 2020 Graeme Armstrong novel, The Young Team, set in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire a few miles east of Glasgow and narrated by a gang member in the local dialect, focuses on the 'ned culture' of the region in the early ...
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 ]
Scotland is the "Home of Golf", and is well known for its courses. As well as its world-famous Highland Games (athletic competitions), it is also the home of curling, and shinty, a stick game similar to Ireland's hurling. Scotland has 4 professional ice hockey teams that compete in the Elite Ice Hockey League. Scottish cricket is a minority game.
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For many years, Easterhouse has had a poor reputation in Scotland and the UK as a whole. [19] [24] [32] This is partly due to riots in the 1970s that started there and spread to surrounding areas. [citation needed] The crime problems in Easterhouse and many surrounding areas in Glasgow's East End are often associated with "Ned culture".
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In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes ..." — Billy Connolly " ... this nation must rank among the most enlightened in the universe. Politics, religion and literature have made of Scotland something beyond compare ..." — Charles de Rémusat
Edward Atkinson Hornel (17 July 1864 – 30 June 1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. He was a cousin of James Hornell . His contemporaries in the Glasgow Boys called him Ned Hornel .