Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. It sits on the River Clyde. In the 1700s it grew into a busy port, and later it became famous for building ships. It has long had a working-class name — a city of yards, work, and a strong local voice — but it is also a real centre for art and culture now, with galleries, music, and universities (the city has two well-known ones). It is not the capital; that is Edinburgh, which is smaller. People from Glasgow are Glaswegian, and the local speech is often called that too. In English it is a place name, said with a first part like “glaz” and a second part like “go.” Writers sometimes repeat an old romantic gloss of the name as “the dear green place,” from older Celtic words for green and hollow. That is a lovely story people like to tell; the pieces behind it are “green” and “hollow,” not the English word glass.