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  1. 04-Oct-2012, 18:27 #1
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    Default And a bit of English dies...

    Scottish Man Dies, Taking Town's Dialect With Him - ABC News
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    I was brought up on the Black Isle, in a village a few miles away from Cromarty. The older "Croms", as we used to call the inhabitants of that picturesque place, certainly had a distinctive patois....
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    Default Re: And a bit of English dies...

    There's a recording here: BBC News - Last Cromarty fisherfolk dialect speaker dies
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    Ahhh ....takes me back.
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