How to pronounce “swale” in English

Robert Swale was a proud Englishman and a prouder Saxon, tracing his lineage all the way back to the hardy invaders of the island's southern shore in the 5th century.

Robert Swale had gout, at least this is what his surgeon said.

A hearty creature was Robert Swale.

Swale believed he'd misheard and leaned closer.

Though it was perhaps true that the farther back one went in Swale's family tree, the more that genealogy became less a science and more an art,

But in the morning light, Swale thought that that was perhaps too radical a solution as of yet.

Swale asked.

But had that had to be a misdiagnosis, if not an utter lie meant to convince Swale to undo his purse strings still further.

And none of them are copy-paste, because based on the geography, based on swale conditions, surrounding places, and based on the water catchments,

One did not need documentary evidence to be sure of his ancestry, or so, Swale thought.

And just like that, even before Swale