Richard Burton is from Pontrhydyfen, above Port Talbot--a rare south Welsh village that was entirely Welsh-speaking when Burton was a child. (I know this because my mother grew up in that village and knows the Jenkins family--his name before adoption by Philip Burton. Members of the Jenkins family still live there.) So he 's no poseur but someone whose first language would have been Welsh and whose family still attend Eisteddfodau and speak the language. Pontredyfen, now, has unfortunately changed dramatically: I think most people now speak English. David.