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meaning a "drink at the door". Translated as "one for the road", i.e. "one more drink before you leave". Fear an taighe an MC (master of ceremonies), Gaelic lit. "the man of the house" Eàrlaid [4] the right sometimes sold by an outgoing to an incoming tenant to enter into possession of the arable land early in Spring. Galore [1] From gu leor ...
The early 10th century Cormac's Glossary has an entry for Oímelc, calling it the beginning of spring and deriving it from oí-melg ('ewe milk'), explaining it as "the time that sheep's milk comes". [16] However, linguists believe this is the writer's respelling of the word to give it an understandable etymology. [17]
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 [50] Holmes Chapel
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 ...
Popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Example of its use in 1916: "You do not hear a lot about us, but we are nevertheless doing our duty toward our King and country. I hope that I shall be spared to see Sweet 'Berdare once again. – I remain, B. J. Edwards. Sto. No. I. Mess, H.M.S. Colossus, c/o G.P.O. London." Aberdeen "Energy Capital ...
Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. [1] [2] Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Makar, or National Poet of Scotland, [3] and served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011.
An early map of Glasgow in 1776, centred on Glasgow Cross. The area around Glasgow has hosted communities for millennia, [specify] with the River Clyde providing a natural location for fishing. The Romans later built outposts in the area and, to protect Roman Britannia from the Brittonic speaking Caledonians, constructed the Antonine Wall.
Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist [39] George Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (The Easybeats) [40] John Paul Young, Australian singer [41] Malcolm Young – Scottish-born Australian guitarist [39] Stevie Young