Glasgovian

English Alternative forms en Glasgowian Etymology From en Glasgow ian or en la:Glasgovia an. Noun en now rare en Glaswegian. en 12 April 1863 a letter writer Working-Class Dining-Rooms William Blanchard Jerrold Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper 1,064 London Printed and published at 12, Salisbury-square, in the City of London, by Edward Lloyd, of Walthamstow, Essex, and Lloyd’s Paper Mills,Bow-bridge, near London, and Sittingbourne, Kent. 8 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/390330655/ 4 176263009 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. en 11 April 1958 The Gangrel pseudonym Bats in the Belfry Daily Record 19,483 Glasgow Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail 2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1047372748/ 1 0956-8069 500344244 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. en 6 August 2021 joel_ca_c https://x.com/joel_ca_c/status/1423631239718780928 Thunder and lightning over East Ren! ooooft absolutely horsing it down for about ten minutes there andnits 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20210806135615/https://twitter.com/joel_ca_c/status/1423631239718780928 6 August 2021 en Adjective en now rare en Glaswegian. en 27 January 1887 Our Queensland Letter w:The Sydney Morning Herald 15,238 Sydney, N.S.W. John Fairfax and Sons 3 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/125599059/ 6 0312-6315 1767031 He H. A. Long is careful to inform the readers of the Glasgow Evening 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. en 21 January 1984 Robert H. Newall Bookmarks: Laurence Olivier lets his readers down w:Bangor Daily News Bangor, Me. 19 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/664581069/ 6 0892-8738 8818350 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 of the Glasgovian Scots speech. en 7 October 2009 PaulJK British actors in American infomercials sci.lang https://web.archive.org/web/20260621072406/https://groups.google.com/g/sci.lang/c/Ja5cUp1nOIU/m/-WaG168gB9IJ I can't imagine a play with Peter Wimsey talking in working class Cockney, Liverpudlian, or Glasgovian English. en en British demonyms City of Glasgow, Scotland