# Actors/Actresses that don't speak in their original accent.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 14, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-dont-speak-in-their-original-accent/592711 "2011-08-14T18:52:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-dont-speak-in-their-original-accent/592711/101 "2017-04-08T03:24:53Z")

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> [@micahcarey](#):
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> New Jersey is NOT “Jersey”:mad:! Stop calling it that. Jersey is in The Channel Islands. Is the extra syllable too much for lazy Americans?

Of course not! He should have said “Joisey”.

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**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-dont-speak-in-their-original-accent/592711/102 "2017-04-08T18:34:31Z")

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> [@multimediac17](#):
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> Madonna seems to have gone back to American lately, but there was indeed a time in about 2003-2006 where she suddenly became British.

Was she not married to a british filmmaker for a number of years?

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