Catherine Zeta Jones' Interesting Accent

[dcup]

Listen to this: http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2015-07-06/catherine-zeta-jones-at-hampshire-cricket-ground/

[PankySmooch]

Yes, it's called Welsh

[tamaris]

Welsh with American

[dcup]

Half LA / half Swansea = Los Swansea

[TWR]

You will never loose your accent Dcup, S.Wales Isn.it

[joggerjayne]

I liked her when she was Welsh.

[andy-hughes]

When you live in another country that speaks English, you naturally start to fall into their idioms of speech because it is what you hear all day every day.

That said, when you have a (divine!) accent to begin with, that is unlikely to ever completely fade.

In the case of Ms ZJ, her Welsh accent is still 98% intact, with very occasional hints of the American speech she hears every day.

Some people fall into accents far more easily. The son of a friend of ours has lived in Austrlalia for a year, and on his return home, he had a complete dyed-in-the-wool Aussie twang. When questioned, he said that he had started to talk like the people around him, because his English accent totally baffled them, and the got fed up with repeating everything he said.

[Elina]

She's quite beautiful isn't she.

[andy-hughes]

She is Elina - I remember her in The Darling Buds Of May when she was probably about nineteen, she was breathtakingly gorgeous!

[Bathsheba]

My son has lived in Swansea for over 20 years now, + I can hardly understand a word he says these days ;)

[Bathsheba]

...he also ends his sentences with either "is it?" or "there we are then" ;)

[ukbod2015]

I could forgive her anything

[pastafreak]

I've been living in the UK for 25+ years. Folks still recognise my accent as originating the other side of the Atlantic. Some think I'm canadian...that's fine by me...lol.
Most never lose it.