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" At school I didn ’ t say a word for the first four weeks-I called it my Silent Month.

I think it was because everyone was speaking so differently from how it had been in Wales.

Then, after four weeks, I came home one day and said, ‘ Muumm, I wanna go to Sarfend !’ For her that was the end because I had lost my lovely Welsh lilt.

So I became very conscious of speech and the effects it can have.

But when I went back to Wales I would start talking all Welsh, ‘ lyke that you see ’ before going all Alf Garnett while coming back the other way .”