Quite why the majority of US critics are so offended by this particular outrage remains a mystery. Hollywood has always had a somewhat cavalier attitude towards foreign accents, as those of you scarred for life by Dick van Dyke’s chirpy Cockney in Mary Poppins will attest.

—The Register: US film critics slap Calcutta-born Welsh

Actually I was scarred for life by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.