Our Village by Droller won the Rosemary Cup for Dialect Prose at the Cornish Gorsedd Grand Gathering in 1995. Writer Michael Tangye collects dialect and is still learning new words. The following is an excerpt from Our Village. It is a dialect story based on true characters who lived in a small mining village in Cornwall. In such tightly knit communities nicknames were commonly given to all with peculiarities of physical appearance, speech, habits, or of employment etc.