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 himself that the British had used that technique on Sepoy Mutineers, "in the reign of her enlightened Majesty, Victoria, and could you get any more respectable than that?" Kalvan also thinks this constitutes "a bad pun about cannon-ized martyrs." It's particularly appropriate because Styphon's House made its wealth as the sole source of gunpowder. Blowing from a gun Blowing from a gun was a method of execution in which the victim was typically tied to the mouth of a cannon which was then fired. George Carter Stent described the process as follows: Blowing from a gun was a reported means