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Indeed, in fact I would say W is worth double any other vowel such as U.<br>
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Donnchadh<br>
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*cough, attempt to arrange features in appropriate mask of melancholy*<br>
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Woe indeed. And why does no one seem to believe me when I tell them
that W, like Y, is a perfectly good vowel? Why, between the two we
scarcely really need the others...<br>
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-Catrin<br>
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<div>My soul is black</div>
<div>Black with despair</div>
<div>Black as the formerly-green woods of Cynan Vale</div>
<div>For the clangor of commerce</div>
<div>And the soot of ill-will</div>
<div>And the clear-cutting and subsequent erosion of unreturned
(why will no one return them?) e-mails</div>
<div>Have driven from my soul the green leaves of hope</div>
<div>Driven from it the chirruping songbirds of joy</div>
<div>Driven from it the furry little woodland creatures with
big brown eyes, of compassion.</div>
<div>The world has gone strange to me.</div>
<div>Lo, it understandeth me not</div>
<div>Understandeth not the sensiteve poet</div>
<div>Understandeth not the cultured Welshman</div>
<div>For it thinketh an Eisteddfod is an agricultural implement</div>
<div>It holdeth that Llwyarch Hen is something like a Rhode
Island Red.</div>
<div>The world is strange</div>
<div>People are strange</div>
<div>When you're a stranger</div>
<div>Faces look ugly</div>
<div>When you're alone.</div>
<div>Yes, that's Welsh.</div>
<div>Or at least it should be</div>
<div>If the world were as it should be</div>
<div>Or as it should have been</div>
<div>But never was.</div>
<div>But it is not, wasn't, and never will be.</div>
<div>Wherefore I sing:</div>
<div>Woe, me.</div>
<div>Woe, you.</div>
<div>Woe, they.</div>
<div>Woe, hossie.</div>
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