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Can anyone understand Joseph's old Yorkshire dialect? Perhaps the book would have been better with him dictating the story to Lockwood?
George Honestly? Yes, rather easily. I just went and looked at the first four entries at http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/jo... (thanks ever so, Rekha) and…moreHonestly? Yes, rather easily. I just went and looked at the first four entries at http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/jo... (thanks ever so, Rekha) and while I'd have been hard put to gloss some words out of context, I had absolutely no difficulty with the paragraphs as wholes.

However, I've been reading such stuff off and on for decades, often with the help of glossaries and translations, so I'm not claiming it ought to be clear to everyone. Nevertheless, it will amaze you how well Ha Med's method here works: Read it aloud as well as you can while listening for meaning. After all, don't you occasionally pronounce "to" as t' yourself--even though you don't pronounce "the" the same way?(less)
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