Nope. Alreet is a north-eastern phrase. Manchester is in the north west. They say it very differently there.

No it’s not. Not unless you’ve got cloth ears.

Really, why not? To understand something, you’ve got to study it. Okay, global warming has been going on for years but if you bother to read Dave Petley’s piece, these large-scale landslides in Alaska are a relatively new phenomenon. Which so far, no-one has studied.