More than words: A guide to Scottish dialect
WHEN Bobby Hogg died in the Highlands at the age of 92 last week, the distinctive dialect of the Cromarty fisherfolk died with him. Hogg was the last fluent speaker of a version of our language which had its own unique words such as roodadoo (a heron) and belligut (a greedy person) and poetic turns of phrase.
The Cromarty dialect was particularly interesting because – even at its height – it was confined to such a small group of people, but Scotland is rich with dialects, which, while overlapping, all have their own distinctive expressions.
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