No. In general I wouldn't. If I say it out loud I get nearly all of it.
I miscopied the Garioch and left out the title. I've put them back in. Once yu get the picture of an oak tree covwered with galls (oak-apples they are often called) does it become clearer?
Of course this looks like a discussion about dialect. But we'd need to ask someone like Janice how similar or dissimilar Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are. Or Spanish and Portuguese?r Spanish Spanish and South American Spanish? Or American and English? How many English films need subtitles in the USA? Billy Liar for sure.
What about the poems of Wlliam Barnes? He is contemporary with Hardy In the museum in Dorchester you can hear recordings of his poems read in the Dorset speech. Quite beautiful I think. Only in these islands can you hear so MANY varieties of English in so small a space. They are dying for sure, but slowly, slowly.
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