WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF THE ORKNEY DIALECT?

Populations are changing, and the various forms of media affect us all. Does this mean that dialect is fated to go the way of the great auk and the cruisie lamp? Can social media help? Could it even become a language – as has happened in Shetland? Dr Tom Rendall and Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon look at views and examples to open up the debate.