Barb_D Moderator Staff member Joined Mar 12, 2007 Member Type Other Native Language American English Home Country United States Current Location United States Oct 4, 2012 #1 Scottish Man Dies, Taking Town's Dialect With Him - ABC News
Grumpy Senior Member Joined Aug 12, 2009 Member Type Interested in Language Native Language English Home Country UK Current Location UK Oct 4, 2012 #2 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....
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....
T Tdol No Longer With Us (RIP) Staff member Joined Nov 13, 2002 Native Language British English Home Country UK Current Location Japan Oct 5, 2012 #3 There's a recording here: BBC News - Last Cromarty fisherfolk dialect speaker dies
Grumpy Senior Member Joined Aug 12, 2009 Member Type Interested in Language Native Language English Home Country UK Current Location UK Oct 5, 2012 #4 Ahhh ....takes me back.