what's your favourite accent of English...?

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...be it native speaker or otherwise?

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

east coast accents are the worst.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

1. BBC
2. London
3. Ozzie
4. Irish
5. Scottish
6. Southern (US)

In short, every accent but mine.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

silly keith, us east-coasters don't have accents ... :-)

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i like southern accents - they are fun

― ron (ron), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

To Keith: I think NY sounds fantastic. But then I live thousands of miles away from there and I love the mythology of NY cinema.

Leee: re your number 5 - Glasgow or Edinburgh? I happen to think G is way cool.

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Not to mention the Hebrides accent. Fabulously scrapey and heavy.

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Being an American, Daniel, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference. To answer your question, "generic."

7. Bahstahn. Go Nomah!

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Where's the hostess of Changing Rooms from?

That one.

American accents ... no favorite, but Boston accents often rub me the wrong way, especially from women, and Californian accents can be tough to take seriously.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Boston accents are by far my least favorite.

I like Australian accents a lot, and posh English ones (Windsor or wherever it is Sarah Cracknell is from). I like that Leee separates "BBC" and "London", even if I can't hear the difference.

― chester (synkro), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Posh NYC accents make me giggle, the Mancunian lilt is easy on my ears (probably because I work with one), traveller/pikey accents are full of mystery, St. Louis accents make me proud, proper Georgia accents are lovely all around.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there such a thing as a recognizable Northwest US accent?

― chester (synkro), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Cajun or Caribbean

― oops (Oops), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

All those non-standard broken English dialects spoken outside of Texas.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

No love for the Canadian accent? :(

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

no.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Chester, I think the PacNW accent is about as neutral as it gets, given so many people moved here from elsewhere. Otherwise, it's probably a slight fusion of redneck and Canadian, traditionally speaking.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

There's definitely a northwest cadence. It's like a muted California accent, but just the cadence, not the pronunciation (and, that said, not terribly different from most other accents west of the Rockies -- it takes westcoaster a loooong time to say anything).

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I second Carribean accent. So beautiful!!!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a California accent? I thought we were the default.

Seriously, we talk virtually the same as almost all of the US.

Is there a relation b/w Wisconsin "you betcha" and hoserspeak?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a California accent? I thought we were the default.

Seriously, we talk virtually the same as almost all of the US.

And almost all of the US falls into areas where there are still regional accents.

I'm from New Hampshire. I don't have a trace of a New Hampshire accent. Most people there don't. That doesn't mean there isn't one.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

So we're talking surfer d00d/valley girl then re: CA?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, that's just one of em. It's like ... okay, to use NH as an example again. That's one area of New England -- and, really, there are at least three regional accents in New Hampshire, two of which are shared with other states, Massachusetts and Maine. There are the various Massachusetts accents. There's the slighter south-of-Boston New England accent. All of these are, in broad terms, New England accents, and when you can't place someone specifically you can still pretty much recognize a New England accent by its vowels and r's.

The California accent's like that. The valley girl thing's part of it, I guess (does anyone still talk like that? Was it really a regional accent, or more of a social group thing?). But there are commonalities between San Francisco and Los Angeles, mostly in cadence, rhythm, tone to an extent, etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, ok. Then aside from my distinguishing b/w the beeb and London, I guess I lumped everything together.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.frontiernet.net/~mikemay/celebrities/oldman05.jpg

― Dada, Friday, 25 July 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of my favorite US versions (I can't really distinguish british accents better than North, South, Scottish):

Bawl-di-mur
Roo-a-noke
Naw-fuck, or the Tide-wadder accent (Virginia actually has a few discernable accents none of which are really classic southern accents)

I now live in Colorado, the land of no accents (except Texan).

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

See, Colorado's got the west-of-the-Rockies slooooww-talking accent, though! (That's where I first heard it, aside from on television.) Denver did, anyway.

I wonder if what I mean by accent isn't what other people mean (cause granted, I'm not talking about pronunciation).

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Thai whore

― khao sen, Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

For reference.

(though some of them are not at all typical, unfortunately).

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

that cannot possibly be a glasgow accent, because i can understand what the purported glasgwegian is saying and it's been scientifically proven that no-one can understand a glaswegian (other than another glasgwegian).

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It is a not too street Glasgow accent, but it is a Glasgow accent nonetheless.

It's a shame there's no Edinburgh one for Keith cause he'd see how different they are.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

On the unintelligiblity issue, I'm afraid to admit that I had a 2 minute 'conversation' with the cleaning guy at work this evening and really pushed the nodding and smiling thing to the limit.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot believe
things have got this far and no
one's said 'Liverpool'

― Haikunym, Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

that's because we are discussing favorite accents.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It's kind of been spoiled by all the cheeky scousers, but I agree that it can be nice. You won't find many people in the UK agreeing with me though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

for those who doubt that there's such a thing as a philadelphia accent.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Australian accents give me a chubby.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with N. a soft scouse accent is gorgeous. Sadly a shrill scouse accent is the worst thing in the world, largely because I equate it with someone trying to get free drinks.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

(Incidentally Haikunym I like what you're doing)

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Leee: I see no relation/similarity between Canadian accents (there are a few of them) and Wisconsin/Minnesota/North Dakota accents. I personally find most Canadian accents outside of Newfoundland and the Maritimes unappealing. NYC FAPpers: did you notice that I had an especially noticeable Canadian accent? No one made too many comments and I was fully expecting to be made fun of being the only Canadian there.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

see=hear

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I like southern US, scottish, australian, and canadian accents the best. though not like redneck australian, i hate that. and i like the sound of timid japanese girls speaking english too.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I was being silly before, but the truth is that there is no "default" dialect, nowhere in America where Standard American English is spoken as a regional dialect. Every dialect has at least a few non-standard features.

Englishes I like: Nigerian, South African, Australian, Indian. Favorite British English dialect is probably the one spoken around Cornwall by the older folk.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 26 July 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to like the proper British inflected English of South Asians living in America but schooled in England. I'm over that now.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pghirishfest.org/images/guinness.jpg
http://www.electricferret.com/battle/images/vs.gif
http://www.hatfield.on.ca/pool/alec_guinness.jpg

― Dada, Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I love all accents. I still want to start a 24 hour cable news channel where all of the newscasters are girls with thick accents from all over the world.

It's interesting that while people from another place will often characterize accents as being broadly regional (eg "southern" or "Canadian"), people who actually grew up in those regions will almost always inform you that such a categorization is practically worthless since it leaves out so much DETAIL which is CRUCIAL.

For instance - Boomhauer on King Of The Hill is definitely a lowlander, while Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump never lived a day in Alabama - he's hillbilly Tennessee all the way. I could go on and on. There are probably six or seven different "Southern" accents that I can recognize and place - I can do decent impressions of at least four different styles, but my sex limits me. There are certain accents which are strongly embedded with a person's gender and sexual orientation, too.

Bryan - yes, you do have a strong accent. We love you for it though. Same for me - while I didn't hear much about my Alabamaness at the FAP, I later found out that most folks noticed it, they just declined to comment (there were more interesting topics at hand, like giving people longass voicemails and asking for lighters).

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Smaller next time Daa

― Dada, Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

northern Queensland strine.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sonic.net/~jason/grisly/grisly-hemingway.gif

― Dada, Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

West country accent is the best! Somerset/Gloucstershire cider-tinged is great!

Worst is faux cockney which is a horrible meeja wanker affectation.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to wonder whether there was such a thing as a "new jersey" accent. i mean, the accent that some consider "new jersey" always sounded more like a brooklyn accent to my ears (which makes sense, cause lots of people in the jersey suburbs are transplanted brooklynites). even now, living in hoboken, i still can't tell what the difference between a "brooklyn" accent and a "new jersey" accent. my ears were probably warped from (a) living around princeton, where everyone sounds like a toff or pseudo-boston/new york-preppy (think thurston howell III); (b) my dad's hand-me-down philadelphia/pennsylvania polack accent-mashup; and (c) whatever it is my mother speaks (a mixture of 1940s yorkshire and generic american).

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Mary above mentioned Nigerian. Spending two years in Peckham I got quite fed up with the sound of Nigerian English, with its sharpness and its lack of diphthongs. (Yoruba on the other hand sounds great - fantastically expressive with some amazing noises!) I'm only shocked that nobody has mentioned West Midlands yet. Contrary to its reputation, I find it full of character. It's one of those accents where you think the speaker is about to say something funny at any moment.

― Daniel (dancity), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

1. tads mothers
2. joy-z
3. valley girl
4. dewsbury
5. bradford
6. barnsley
7. west african london
8. east london
9. the accent that john barnes invented for himself
10. dutch

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth, can you explain the difference between the Bradford and Dewsbury accents?

Jamaican English is nigh unbeatable. I love the fact that word stress in Jamaican never falls on the syllable you expect it to. Also, the "intrusive" h (Hinglan', havenue) is a source of endless fascination.

― Daniel (dancity), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

what, nee geordie love?

haway canny lads an' lasses, th' knaa it's bonny like

reet, ahm off doon tha bigg morket...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Saturday, 26 July 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

African voices from French speaking countries are lovely, like this from Cameroon.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always liked some accents on women, some on men. On women, a medium Edinburgh or South Wales is good. On men, I like London best. Still feel a nostalgic affection for Bristol and Wiltshire accents too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I do not have an accent!

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a strange affection for RP BBC-newsreader-ish voices for women. The female newsreaders on Radio 2 have great accents. For a guy, I like an Irish accent, not Northern Ireland, and not overtly "Oirish" like Ciaran on Coronation Street. I also have ridiculous affection for any accents from the Highlands and Islands, as they make me think of home and wish I hadn't got so Central Belt in my way of speaking. My love for Cameron is entirely based on his accent.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Lorraine Kelly's accent.

And I'd like to put in a word for East Coast accents. The Suffolk accent is charming - like a soft shy Australian, if such a thing can be imagined.

― thoth (Jake Proudlock), Saturday, 26 July 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

As far as the kind of accents I usually come across go, Irish (of pretty much all varieties) or English RP of the type ailsa describes (Fea Glover, Charlotte on Just A Minute etc.) are my favourites on women.

But this should really be going here: What is the most sexy/least sexy accent?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Charlotte on the News Quizx, surely? She has a fantastic voice.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

News Quiz yes oops.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure how much that's down to her accent - lots of women have that accent, but none sound as wonderful as her.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

No, of course. But no voice is solely defined by its accent. There are plenty of Irish and RP voices I would hate. Nasal voices are generally a big turn off.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

southern accent taking sides, hillbilly vs genteel: "suuthrn" vs "suthuhn"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i like suuthrn - it allows for the greatest pronuniation of "fucker" in the world - "fuuukr" (the latter BEST done as nasally as it is possible to do)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the genteel southern accent is practically dead now unless you go hang out with really old money or watch a lot of politics.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

People didn't comment about our accents, Tom, because we all had different accents (I guess). Yours was quite pleasant, actually. I tried to not talk too much so I wouldn't embarrass myself.
luna: you have an accent, but it's hard to pinpoint. Californian with bits of southern (non-redneck).

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of my faves are Japanese person speaking English, Mancunian, and my friend Claire speaking over the phone.

― mei (mei), Saturday, 26 July 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

luna does have a tiny bit of an accent, and it only surfaces occasionally.
German speaking English=automatic comedy, see The Simpsons

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 26 July 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

like, whateverrrrr.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 26 July 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

my favourites and northern irish, scottish and boston. it's totally fucked up, but people with these accents instantly become more attractive to me.

i also have a love/hate relationship with southern accents (american).

― sand.y, Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

like, whateverrrrr.

Zat voot be 'votevah', ohr not?

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Sunday, 27 July 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Favorite, not sexiest is Nefie, because no one on the face of the earth sounds like a newf and very few people out in Torana can understand it.
I've lost most of my accent from the east but Im told it still pops up from time to time, specially when going on at length about Halifax or Sackville. Its also kinda amusing for me as people accuse me of trying to sound Irish or Scotish.
My least favorite accent isn't english but Acaidan French which I swear is closer to German than French and also forced me out of Fench classes in high school at the first chance.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 27 July 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess now it's the classic New York/Jewish accent, if such a thing still exists.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

lawn guyland

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course it does. It just doesn't have the cache it used to, since Woody Allen starting making lesser movies.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

German speaking English=automatic comedy, see The Simpsons
-- oops (*******@hotmail.com), July 26th, 2003.

Have you seen the Simpsons in German? It's wicked.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 27 July 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Reviving because of this Giant Archive of English Accents and Dialects

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm kind of fascinated by the site N. posted. I don't know how totally I buy that one can clearly distinguish e.g. a Montreal from a Toronto accent based on the samples there but it's interesting. The Montreal speaker sounded like the most 'normal' or 'correct' Cdn accent and I expected I would sound similar but I don't really: http://www.geocities.com/sundar_subramanian2001/accent.mp3

The California accent definitely sounds like the 'standard' or 'default' North American accent to me (only after listening to these do I really notice its differences from a Cdn accent). I wonder if that's because of Hollywood.

(Buffalo accents are vile, obv.)

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

What kind of accent does Joni Mitchell have? Saskatchewan? It sounded really nice in the 60s.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

I was talking to a Chinese colleague at work today who was amazed that I could tell over the phone that someone speaking standard American English was African American. She can't hear the difference. She also can't tell the difference between different US regional accents (California, Midwest, Upper Midwest, Texas/Arkansas/Oklahoma, Northeast (New York, Boston etc), South (upper vs. deep South vs Georgia, which has a distinctive accent).

I found this all quite interesting. She says that she can't understand African Americans who speak ebonics at all. She doesn't have any idea what they are saying.

The US has lots of accents, but I think Hollywood movies do homogenize it into a flat, "standard" accent.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Official Bob Garner said: "There was a bit of a cock-up. The chap who booked him didn't realise. The DJ sounded white on the phone."

Labour MP Martin Salter said last night: "This just shows they'll never be a legitimate political party.

"They're just poisonous bigots who think they can tell the colour of someone's skin from the other end of a phone line."

― BNP, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

MORE VOICE SAMPLES PLEASE.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

northern Florida (women)
Virginia (men)

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Contrary to what N says, the Liverpool accent is fairly well liked in the UK because of its association with Liverpudlian friendliness. The Scottish accent is well liked in England, but not as much as Irish, but Scottish people tend to think English people sound like snobs. West Country/Midlands accents generally disliked, and nobody ever comments on estuary because it's boring. Unlike cockney, which makes people think you are a likeable rogue. Yorkshire accent gives off honesty vibes. Newcastle accent gives of I'm-out-on-the-piss vibes. Aesthetiic judgements tend to square with the regional stereotype. ie: people think west country folk are thick, and accent unpopular.

That's what the surveys tend to say anyway.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

I've done a survey of my own:

Contrary to what N says, the Liverpool accent is fairly well liked in the UK because of its association with Liverpudlian friendliness.

Who associates Liverpudlians with friendliness?!??!?!

The Scottish accent is well liked in England, but not as much as Irish

Scottish accent(s) seems very much in the ascendancy these days.

but Scottish people tend to think English people sound like snobs

Bollocks

Unlike cockney, which makes people think you are a likeable rogue

Likeable? Ha ha.

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

When we were in NY, a few years ago, everyone in shops and restaurants understood Dawn's geordie accent way better than my 'stateless/est'.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

I've generally found Americans (and Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans etc) better at understanding my accent than English people - probably because they try harder

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

but Scottish people tend to think English people sound like snobs

Bollocks

I've found that outside south-east England, a south-east accent tends to be regarded as posh, even if one is dropping one's tees and aitches.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

I've always been fond of a Lancashire accent. I could listen to the likes of Stuart Maconie all day.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

I was truly amazed when Dawn's sister referred to someone as having a "posh, birmingham accent"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

I hate Geordie accents. It just sounds so fucking wrong, especially that bloke that does the voiceovers on channel 4. I don't know why they keep locating call centres there.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

For some reason it's considered "Britain's favourite accent". Heaven knows why.

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

boooo.

Because, in surveys, people liked that accent best.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

xpoast.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh sorry Mark!

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

(If you're a Geordie, Mr Grout, I apologise)

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

I like posh English accents.
I like posh Dublin accents too.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

s-ok, I'm not, but a lot of mbfag

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

.. although if there was a "Geordie Music Prize" next year, I'd qualify for nomination.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

Howay, bonny lads, divven't we just dee this thread a coupla weeks back, like?

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

that's like the pinefox's scottish accent

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

girls with a highish pitched yorkshire accent are the best

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

or even lancashire... mmmmm pretty sounds

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

i hate geordie accents too - no offense to any geordies.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

that's like the pinefox's scottish accent

Now that's what i call a compliment!

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Everyone at work was asking me to say "about" and "house" tonight!

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 8 September 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Glasgow.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

1) Irish (any kind, if you are Irish I will have your babies)
2) Edinburgh
3) Manchester
4) My own darling North Carolinian accent (Millar is OTM about there being about 6 or 7 southern accents)
5) Lancashire
6) Coastal South Carolina accents (mostly Charleston and Gullah)
7) London

New England accents on women drive me up the wall. The Boston accent doesn't really bother me that much (living in one of the university areas, I don't actually hear it much anyway).

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Scottish people tend to think English people sound like snobs

Yeah, that Steven Gerrard/Wayne Slob/Jimmy Nail/David Beckham/Frank Skinner all sound SO POSH!!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

David Beckham has one of the worst speaking voices I have ever heard. Awful, awful, awful.
I think the pitch of the voice is most important. Any accent can be sexy if it's done well. That said, I generally like English West Country (soft though, not to the point of I've Got A Brand New Combine Harvester) and I'm a sucker for Canadian.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

2) Edinburgh

Oh no no no!

I've decided the worst accent is the one spoken by (some) Scottish people who have lived in England for years, it is truly hideous, see Tommy Docherty, Joe Jordan and, one I've heard recently , Kevin Gallacher. I believe it afflicts people other than footballers too.

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

The worst accent ever (to me) is the transatlantic Scot. Sheena Easton and Lulu. Gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. x 1000

(Dadaismus, how long have you lived in London?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

they don't make 'em like they used to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf2ns0kh8g4

― kid steel (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:34 (thirteen years ago)

unfortunately not
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Boris_Johnson_-opening_bell_at_NASDAQ-14Sept2009-3c_cropped.jpg/220px-Boris_Johnson_-opening_bell_at_NASDAQ-14Sept2009-3c_cropped.jpg

― Radical Jedward (snoball), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:30 (thirteen years ago)

Favorite British English dialect is probably the one spoken around Cornwall by the older folk.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 26 July 2003 04:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

Proper job, my 'ansome!

I love the way, the further West you go in Cornwall, the stereotypical 'West Country' accent seems to mutate into this almost sing-song quality. Love eavesdropping on old people on the bus in Penwith.

― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:40 (thirteen years ago)

I'm partial to Geordie. Least favourite is Lancashire.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:48 (thirteen years ago)

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