{"id":7704,"date":"2012-10-06T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2012-10-06T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T16:21:15","slug":"cromarty-fisher-dialect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7704","title":{"rendered":"Cromarty fisher dialect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report I found today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/home-news\/dialects-demise-as-final-speaker-dies-at-92-x.19034230\">Herald Scotland<\/a>, the last fluent speaker of the Cromarty fisher dialect of Scots, Bobby Hogg, died recently. It was a dialect spoken by fisherfolk in the northeast of Scotland. According to experts, it was &#8220;the first ever linguistic demise to be so exactly recorded in Scotland.&#8221; While there are still a few people who know bits of the dialect, nobody speaks it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>There are some recordings and examples of the dialect on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambaile.org\/en\/search\/data?type_id=3&#038;field,DC_RELATION,substring,string=Am+Baile%3A+Cromarty+Fisher+Folk\">Am Baile<\/a> an interview from 2007 with Bobby Hogg and his brother Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>There is a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambaile.org.uk\/en\/item\/item_page.jsp?item_id=131892\"><em>The Cromarty Fisherfolk Dialect<\/em><\/a>, which contains words and phrases in and information about the dialect.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples:<br \/>\n&#8211; At wid be scekan tiln ken? = What do you want to know?<br \/>\n&#8211; Am fair sconfished wi hayreen; gie\u2019s fur brakwast lashins o am and heggs. = I\u2019m so fed up with herring, give me plenty of ham and eggs for breakfast.<br \/>\n&#8211; Foamin for want = Desperate for tea<br \/>\n&#8211; Theer nae tae big fi a sclaffert yet! = You\u2019re not too big for a slap!<\/p>\n<p>The dialect appears to include a number of words from Scottish Gaelic, though the spelling disguises them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report I found today in the Herald Scotland, the last fluent speaker of the Cromarty fisher dialect of Scots, Bobby Hogg, died recently. It was a dialect spoken by fisherfolk in the northeast of Scotland. According to experts, it was &#8220;the first ever linguistic demise to be so exactly recorded in Scotland.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}