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   steverad55@gmail.com to All   
   Re: "Leave that Welsh tart alone"   
   30 Jan 20 21:28:45   
   
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   From: steverad55@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, May 27, 2001 at 3:46:35 PM UTC+1, Julian the Apostate wrote:   
   > This line, from "Life of Brian", has always puzzled me. What is the   
   > significance/meaning  of it?   
      
   The actress who played the character used her own (Welsh) accent - presumab=   
   ly a directoral decision to enhance the comedy value.  Anyone from the Brit=   
   ish Isles would recognise the accent immediately but presumably the Yanks c=   
   an't tell it from Geordie, or Brummie, or even Scouse, given how famously i=   
   gnorant and disinterested they are concerning anything outside their own bo=   
   rders (and there;s no oil in Wales)..   
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