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.
Blowing from a gun court martial, and do not, therefore, record deaths as occurring during battle or during informal executions or massacres. Several British were convinced that the sepoy insurgents had blown British women from guns. A specific case, mentioned by several sources, concerns that of Mr. and Mrs. Birch, Mrs. Eckford and Mrs. Defontaine, all of whom were said to have been blown from guns at Fatehgarh. The skull of an Indian soldier blown from a gun was found in a British pub and is the subject of the book, "The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of