glasgovian

Example Sentences

• "I visited last week the new dining-rooms for the working-classes at Glasgow; and I will, if you please, describe in a few words what I saw and ate there. I am anxious to do this, because I perceive that a praiseworthy attempt is about to be made in London to follow the example which has been set in Glasgow; and I think that I shall be able to show that the bill of fare issued on Saturday last by “The London Association for the Establishment of Dining and Refreshment Rooms for the Working Classes” lacks one main element—viz. simplicity—which has assured to the Glasgovians the success they so well deserve."
• "Princes Street Gardens will be turned over to neips and the visiting Glasgovian will yield pride of place, as a cause of alarm and dismay, to the Colorado beetle."
• "Thunder and lightning over East Ren! ooooft absolutely horsing it down for about ten minutes there andnits^([sic]) still raining heavily. Suspect a few folk might be flooded out at the bottom of the hill. Just sayin' Glasgovians - I was into weather live-tweets before it was cool"
• "He [H. A. Long] is careful to inform the readers of the G[lasgow] E[vening] News that pineapples do not grow on trees, but in trenches, “much the same as cauliflowers, broccoli, &c., in our own land;” that “gigs and the like are here termed by the word buggy;” that “this land cannot be developed to the Ayrshire level in three generations;” that the “eucalyptus trees are now mostly without bark, which they shed, instead of dropping their leaves as our trees do, an arrangement of nature regulated by temperature;” that the word Kanaka literally means “snake-killer,” and of many other things more or less true which the Glasgovian mind may be presumed to thirst after."
• "Nor did he shy away from such a crassly realitsic play as John Osbourne’s “The Party,” which I saw a decade or so ago at the Old Vic. For that one, this master of accents honed the speech^([sic]) of the Glasgovian Scots speech."
• "I can't imagine a play with Peter Wimsey talking in working class Cockney, Liverpudlian, or Glasgovian English."