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The dialect of Caithness

The dialect of Caithness follows that of the North East of Scotland, by and large. In 1735 Aneas Bayne, in his 'A Survey of the County of Caithness', commented that the local dialect was then spoken in five or six parishes, with Gaelic in the other four. He also commented that 'the commons speak ... more

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