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Glasgow (or Glaschu in Gaelic)
is Scotland's largest
city, situated on the River Clyde in the country's
west central lowlands.
The City of Glasgow
Known as the commercial capital of Scotland,
the City of Glasgow is a bustling,
cosmopolitan city. At the 2001 Census the city
had a population of 629,501 making it the largest
city in Scotland. This
is down from its 1960s peak of 1.1 million (this
is mostly due to boundary changes rather than
population decline per se, and also due to the
mass building of new 'overspill' towns in the
surrounding region during the 1960s and 1970s),
while approximately 2.1 million people live in
Greater Glasgow : A 15 mile radius of the city
centre known as the city of Glasgow and the greater
metropolitan area. The surrounding region of Strathclyde
(from the Gaelic for 'valley of the River Clyde')
has a population of over 2.6 million, over half
of the whole Scottish population.
The city's name comes from the older Gaelic glas
cu (compare modern Gaelic Glaschu), meaning green
hollow. The "dear green place" (Glaschu)
has been misquoted as a Gaelic translation for
the city, but this was actually Daniel Defoe's
description of the city when he visited in the
early 18th century; he also claimed that Glasgow
was "the paradise of Scotland
and one of the cleanliest and best built cities
in Britain." Another writer of the time said
of the River Clyde: "I have never seen before
any river which for natural beauty can stand competition
with the Clyde. Never did a stream glide more
gracefully to the ocean or through a fairer region."
At that time, the city's population numbered approximately
12,000, and its structures largely consisted of
attractive, compact wooden buildings, none of
which remain today.
Glasgow Dialect
Glaswegian, otherwise known as The Glasgow Patter
is a local, anglicised variety of Scots. Glaswegian
is a rich and vital living dialect which gives
a true reflection of the city with all its virtues
and vices. It is more than an alternative pronunciation;
words also change their meaning, e.g. "away"
can mean "leaving" as in A'm awa, an
instruction to stop being a nuisance as in awa
wi ye, or "drunk" or "demented"
as in he's awa wi it. Cannae means "can't".
Pieces refers to "sandwiches". Ginger
is a form of carbonated soft drink which is orange
in colour. Then there are words whose meaning
has no obvious relationship to that in standard
English: coupon means "face", via "to
punch a ticket coupon". A speaker of Glaswegian
might refer to those originating from the Scottish
Highlands and the Western Isles as teuchters by
the keelies. A (rather old-fashioned) Glaswegian
insult is hieland, which means "awkward"
and is Scots for "Highland". Example:
that wean's got an awfu hieland wey o haudin that
knife meaning "that child has a very awkward
way of holding that knife".
Glasgow Schools
Glasgow is also a major education centre with
four universities within ten miles of the city
centre: the 15th-century University of Glasgow
(which has one of the highest ratios of students
who continue living at home), the "redbrick"
University of Strathclyde, the concrete Glasgow
Caledonian University, and the University of Paisley;
as well as teacher training colleges, teaching
hospitals, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music
and Drama, Glasgow School of Art, and 10 other
further education colleges. Glasgow is home to
a student population in excess of 168,000, second
only to London in the UK, the majority of them
living in the west-end of the city, near Glasgow
University's main campus on Gilmorehill.
Glasgow transportation
Glasgow has a large urban transportation system,
mostly managed by SPT (Strathclyde Passenger Transport),
the only Passenger Transport Executive in the
U.K outside of England. SPT, is formed and financed
out of the 7 councils in the Greater Glasgow area
including Glasgow City Council. It has responsibility
for local trains, the subway, certain ferries
and buses.
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