Glasgow reciprocate by referring to Glaswegians as "keelies". More recently, the word "weegie" has become more widely used to describe Glaswegians. The long-running TV drama "Taggart" and the comedies "Empty", "Chewin' the Fat", "Rab C. Nesbitt", "Still Game", "Limmy's Show" and "Dear Green Place" depict the Glaswegian "patois", while Kevin Bridges, Frankie Boyle, Craig Ferguson and Billy Connolly have made Glaswegian humour known to the rest of the world. Glasgow is Scotland's main locus of Gaelic language use outside the Highlands and Islands. In 2011, 5,878 residents of the city over age 3 spoke Gaelic, amounting to 1.0% of the population.
A Ripple from the Storm A Ripple from the Storm A Ripple in the Storm (1958) is the third novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, "Children of Violence". The first volume is "Martha Quest" (1952), and the others are, "A Proper Marriage" (1954), "Landlocked" (1965), and "The Four-Gated City" (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest "from girlhood to middle age". "A Ripple in the Storm" describes the growth of a Communist group in a small town in Central Africa, "as a result of the general mood of optimism, enthusiasm and admiration