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And a bit of English dies...
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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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There's a recording here: BBC News - Last Cromarty fisherfolk dialect speaker dies
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