Glasgow

Speech parts

1. Glasgow - Noun

2. Glasgow - Proper noun

Meaning

largest city in Scotland; a port on the Clyde in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world

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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. Billy Connolly

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. Jeffrey Archer

It is unacceptable that eight of the ten areas in the UK with the lowest life expectancy are in Glasgow. And it is surely a matter of national scandal that life expectancy in war torn Iraq remains higher than in some areas of the largest city in Scotland. Alex Salmond

David Mundell MP said it would take a miracle to save Glasgow University participation in the Crichton campus. It is now official - miracles happen in an SNP run Scotland! Alex Salmond

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent. Annalena McAfee

For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Greggs bakers, though, Ill say that. The opening of the 1977 Star Wars movie was possibly the only time Ive seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener. Darren Boyd

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