Dundee
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Dundee (Scots Gaelic: Dùn Dèagh) is a ceity on the nor-aest coast o Scotland. It sits on the River Tay. It haes a population o aboot 150 000 fowk. It lees on the basalt plug o an extinct volcano cryed the Dundee Law.
The ceity wis a Pictish settlement in the Airn Age. It wis grantit a ryal chairter in 1191 frae William the Lion, makkin it intil a toun.
The ceity's tradeitional industries wis cryed the three Js: Jute, Jam an Journalism, frae the jute mills, marmalade faictories, an local furthsetters DC Thomson. The first twa o thir industries is nou wede awa, but the furthsetters byde in Dundee yet, furthsettin local wittinsblad The Courier an bairns' comics sic as The Beano an The Dandy.
The ceity is kent forbye as the "Ceity o Discovery", efter the ship that teuk Captain Robert Falcon Scott tae the Antarctic. That ship (cryed the RRS (Royal Research Ship, Ryal Resairch Ship) Discovery, wis designed an biggit in Dundee, an is nou stelt in the ceity and uised as a tourist attraction. Dundee haes twa weel kent fitbaa clubs an aa, Dundee F.C., an Dundee Unitit F.C.