This essay aims to focus firstly on the typical features of Cornish dialect, also called Anglo-Cornish, Cornish English or Cornu-English (the variety of English spoken in Cornwall) and then on how those typicalities are rendered in Gordon William's novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969). One of the two film versions, Straw Dogs (1971) by Sam Peckinpah, will be later analysed in order to see if and to what extent these regional characteristics are preserved
