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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 ...
1967 Neville Spearman edition. No Mean City is a 1935 novel by H. Kingsley Long, a journalist, and Alexander McArthur, an unemployed worker.It is an account of life in the Gorbals, a run-down slum district of Glasgow (now mostly demolished, but re-built in a contemporary style) with the hard men and the razor gangs.
aa, baa, caa for words like aw, baw, caw – this was later discouraged-ie for final unstressed -y; y for the /əi/ sound in words like wynd and mynd, and i for the short /ɪ/ sound in words like wind and find. ui for the /ø/ sound in words like guid; ou for the /uː/ sound in words like nou and hou; ow(e) for the /ʌu/ sound in words like ...
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.
Farmageddon, from farm and Armageddon, title of book; flimmer, from flicker and glimmer [2] flounder, from flounce and founder [27] or founder and blunder [28] fluff, from flue and puff [29] [30] foolosophy, from fool and philosophy [2] glamping, from glamour and camping [2] glasphalt, from glass and asphalt [2] globesity, from global and ...
The site also includes example sentences showing word usage from the Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and trends from the Google Ngrams project, and word images from Flickr. In August 2012, CollinsDictionary.com introduced crowd-sourcing for neologisms , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] whilst still maintaining overall editorial control to ...
The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English , from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates ...
Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of his home city of Glasgow. Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott". [2]