Cromarty may have gone, but now we have Spanglish | Simon Jenkins

Dialect can't be saved any more than the families that use it can be frozen in time. Instead, enjoy the creation of new voices

Bobby Hogg of Cromarty has died at the age of 92. His death was not neglected on the slopes of Millbuie or shores of Avoch Bay, especially since the death last year of his brother, Gordon. They were the last two speakers of the Cromarty dialect, on the wild Black Isle of the Moray Firth. With them goes another British tongue, surviving only in a phrase book and a few p...