July 8 "Let Glasgow Flourish"

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and the third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country’s west central lowlands. A person from Glasgow is known as a Glaswegian, which is also the name of the local dialect.

Even though everyone speaks English, you may need a translator for Glasgow Patter or Glaswegian. Glasgow Patter or Glaswegian is a dialect spoken in and around Glasgow, Scotland.

A few examples-

• Electric soup – Another name for Buckfast Tonic Wine, also a Scottish comic book, or, in general, anything that is more alcoholic than tasty. To be "on the electric soup" is to have lost control of one's faculties.

• Ginger – Any carbonated soft drink.

• Jeg – Any carbonated soft drink

• Mad wi it – Drunk or intoxicated (often abbreviated to MWI)

• Mental – Tough

• Mintit – Cool/amazing, rich

• Nugget – idiot

• Pure dead brilliant – Outstandingly good.

• Rockit -idiot

• Scooby – Clue, rhyming slang from Scooby Doo.

You may not want to move to Glasgow-

Glasgow has the lowest life expectancy of any UK city at 72.9 years. Much was made of this during the 2008 Glasgow East by-election.In 2008, a World Health Organisation report about health inequalities, revealing that male life expectancy varied from 54 in Calton to 82 in nearby Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire.

Glasgow's coat of arms

What's with the fish with rings in their mouths? Will the bell falling from the tree ever hit the fish on its tail? Wish I knew more Glasgow patter. I think it's “pure dead brilliant!”