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== Traditional dialect == {{Main|Cromarty dialect}} The town made the news in October 2012 when Bobby Hogg, the last speaker of the traditional local [[North Northern Scots]] dialect, died.<ref>{{cite news |date=2 October 2012 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19802616 |title=Cromarty fisherfolk dialect's last native speaker dies |work=BBC News |access-date=2 October 2012}}</ref> This was referred to on [[HeraldScotland]] as a dialect of the [[Scots language]],<ref>{{cite news |date=2 October 2012 |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/home-news/dialects-demise-as-final-speaker-dies-at-92-x.19034230?_=a816b965843532338aa01847550986ba38636e84 |title=Dialect's demise as final speaker dies at 92 |newspaper=The Herald |access-date=2 October 2012 |author=David Ross|location=Glasgow}}</ref> although a report on BBC Radio 4 said that the dialect had been strongly influenced by the English spoken at the local naval base and that it was one of the few areas in Scotland to exhibit [[H-dropping]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mzs9b BBC Radio 4 β Six O'Clock News, 2 October 2012], from 28:30 until the end of the broadcast</ref> Hogg had previously compiled a booklet of traditional words and phrases.<ref>{{cite news |date=5 May 2009 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8033355.stm |title=Rare fisherfolk dialect recorded|work=BBC News |access-date=2 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=21 February 2007 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1543318/Brothers-are-last-to-speak-dialect.html |title=Brothers are last to speak dialect |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |access-date=2 October 2012 |author=Auslan Cramb}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=26 February 2007 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/feb/26/features11.g21 |title=Anyone here speak Cromarty fisher? |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 October 2012 |author=Matt Kennard}}</ref> In addition, the [[Highland Council]] had produced a digital booklet on the dialect. This states that the [[thou]] forms were still in common use in the first half of the 20th century and remained in occasional use at the time of publication.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/download/files/The%20Cromarty%20Fisherfolk%20Dialect.pdf |title=The Cromarty Fisherfolk Dialect |publisher=Am Baile, The Highland Council's History and Culture website (on Internet Archive)|page=5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202061539/http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/download/files/The%20Cromarty%20Fisherfolk%20Dialect.pdf |archive-date=2 December 2015 }}</ref>
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