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.
British Americans Andrew of Scotland. The flag was first flown on December 2, 1775 by John Paul Jones (then a Continental Navy lieutenant) on the ship "Alfred" in Philadelphia). In addition, some places were named after the kings and queens of the former kingdoms of England and Ireland. The name Virginia was first applied by Queen Elizabeth I (the "Virgin Queen") and Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584., the Carolinas were named after King Charles I and Maryland named so for his wife, Queen Henrietta Maria (Queen Mary). British Americans British American usually refers to Americans whose ancestral origin originates wholly or partly