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This was not least because I enjoyed imagining the Swedish Academy reading about Coolongolook, Wang Wauk, Forster, Wallamba, Gloucester, and Tuncurry—rural places that populate Murray’s poems, and whose names mix lower-class British English, from which Australian vernacular is derived, with Aboriginal words of the inland farm country he grew up in.

“I know what's at stake,” Rodgers said Tuesday on his radio show on WAUK-540 AM in Milwaukee.

He sed he’d been quiet, but he’d nah interfere, He’d wauk up to Derby and tell em up there, Hah they hed been skitted, sin first they begun, And nah when this wur finished they wurnt to run; But hah he went on I never did hear, But won thing I’m certain he must a been there.

We’d wauk aht it morning wen t’yung sun wor shining,    Wen t’birds hed awakened, and t’lark soar’d the air, An’ I’d watch its last beam, on me Mary reclining,    From ahr dear little cot on the benks o’ the Aire.

Yet thy hills they are pleasant, tho’ rocky an’ bare; Thy dawters are handsom, thy sons they are rare; When I wauk thro’ thy dells, by the clear running streams, I think o’ mi boyhood an’ innocent dreams.