Or maybe it was a "wink wink", oh she's probably just the interpreter.

This picture in an old British newspaper. It's the CEO of Walmart and Charles. An interpreter is called for? These type of things bother me.

For those of us in the UK, where imgur has been disabled, here is the picture, hosted elsewhere:

The now King Charles is an extremely well travelled, well educated and erudite man who is highly unlikely to have required an interpreter to be able to follow Mr Scott's American English.
I expect that it was just a guess by the journalist, or perhaps even a little gentle satire?

Edited yesterday at 07:40 AM1 day by Reader

I have a southern accent. Not those very strong "country" accents, but enough so that one can tell immediately where I'm from.

When I was stationed in the UK, the Brits had no trouble at all understanding me. On the other hand, I had some difficulty understanding them, especially if they spoke fast or had certain dialects such as a more "commoner" type accent distinct from the more refined English you hear some speak. I went to Scotland and could barely understand most people. Then some old man started talking to me in some Celtic dialect and another guy had to interpret what he said for me.

Dave

Edited 20 hours ago20 hr by dave2013

Sam Walton lived in Bentonville, Arkansas. Despite his chainstore empire he carried his daily lunch in a paper sack to his office. Perhaps when he passed, the new CEO of Walmart had an accent too strange for Charles to quite make out.

6 hours ago, Fielder said:

Perhaps when he passed, the new CEO of Walmart had an accent too strange for Charles to quite make out.

Perhaps he said 'bro' quite a lot?

President Bill Clinton had a classic Arkansas accent. Couldn't tell if laughing or crying..

Borat had trouble with southern accents as well:

Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by Mike A
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