HE could still close his eyes, see the boats heading out to sea and hear the unique speech pattern that set his people apart.
But that dialect of Scots which had survived for centuries has died with the passing of its last native speaker, retired engineer Bobby Hogg, at the age of 92.
He was the last person who was still fluent in the old dialect of the fisherfolk of Cromarty, at the north-east tip of the Black Isle, north of Inverness.
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