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Personally, I think the Geordie accent is great.
Least favourite is the Brummie accent - bloody awful!
Yours?
Faves Yorkshire, least faves cockney
Don't mind brummie. Absolutely cannot stand Bristol/west country. Makes my skin crawl. Can't stand geordie on women. Indian irritates the hell out of me too, but that's probably related to having to speak to clueless call centres. Yorkshire and Lancs are pretty awful too.
Geordie is good but proper Northumbrian is better.
Bristolian/ SW and Scouse are ok.
Cockney is not ok.
Brummie can be either ok or not, dependant on who is talking.
East Midlands accent is ok but being addressed as 'duck' - you can duck right off.
Best accent I've ever heard was a Spanish-Irish mix. The woman who had it might have had something to do with it though.
I also like a good Glaswegian-Indian accent, best with lot's of swearing.
Can't argue with that.Least favourite is the Brummie accent - bloody awful!
Favourite is Geordie. Least favourite is Scouse. I'm not mad keen on my own either (Leeds/Wakefield tempered with a bit of Bratfud)
Detest a thick Scouse accent. Brum/Black Country crap also.
Quite like Norn Iron accent especially a lady 😉
Quite like Norn Iron accent especially a lady
Oh yes!
Miranda Richardson in 'The Crying Game' 😉
Geordie = beautiful
Brummie = not so much so
Also:
Essex makes my ears bleed
Almost all Scottish accents are lovely (when spoken by women).
Geordie is good but proper Northumbrian is better.
Prroppa Northumbrrian is a spoken art, I love it. That guttural 'rrrurrling' of the letter R has to be heard to be believed.
That's my fave. Southern Irish next followed by NE Scottish. (Love John Bishops accent though)
Anything north of Inverness seems to be a lovely mellow Scottish accent with a hint of Scandinavian the further north you go, beautiful.
A strong scouse accent physically repulses me.
Almost all Scottish accents are lovely (when spoken by women).
Agreed.
I think accents suit the person. Although I'm not keen on the Brummie accent it suits Ozzy Osbourne perfectly.
A strong scouse accent physically repulses me.
🙂
Love Maxine Peake's and Simon Armitage's accents
Hate trying-too-hard posh (brilliantly demonstrated/parodied by Beatrice in C4's The Windsors)
Essex makes my ears bleed
Oh you'd luv me, sunshine... 🙂
Scouse ... stop all the spitting... 'orrible
Lancashire ... I'd happily listen to David Lloyd all day.
Northern irish is quite brutal on the ears .
Despite actually being from around Glasgow, I do hate to hear a common, dirty weegie accent on TV. N'aaw that man.
They just sound stupid.
Hate scouse, it’s like finger nails on a chalkboard to me. Also dislike Black Country and Brummie, bummer really.
Fave is a nice soft Female South Yorkshire accent
Waiting for CFH to creepily mention that French girl again.... 3...2....1
Like my wifes North Yorkshire accent.
I don't know if it is just because she is so irritating but cant stand Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish accent (but dont mind other Scottish accents so think it is more her!)
Italian on the ladies, or i'd go with Geordie/Welsh if we have to stick to the UK... But it also depends on the person it's associated with of course.
A female with a deep voiced Lancashire accent lovely, yeah I know.
Essex just awful and seem to love to hear themselves.
Well, she does have a rather alluring tone, HYD!
Anyway, the finest accent is clearly Richard Burton. That softest of Welsh lilts combined with such clarity.
The worst accent is Germans speaking English. It just tends to come across wrong, too stentorian at times.
tru dat (Richard Burton)!
on the ladeyz.... East Coast Scottish or Italian.
South Wales accent on a female, oh yes.
Harsh NI accent on a bloke, oh no. Heard known accomplice of a well known former loyalist terrorist talking in a pub one day this summer, sounded liking he was choking on a brick. I wish he was tbh.
Can't stand Geordie, it's far too clipped and harsh. It also makes the speaker sound dim.
The Devonshire accent is nice and soft, as long as they don't sound like too much of a wurzel.
But best of all has to be Hereford/Lower Marches, as it has the warmth and softness of a southern rural rolling lilt, without the brashness of the Bristol accent.
As has been mentioned, a lot of it comes down to the individual speaker.
Brummie is by far the worst for me, scouse second then probably geordie. I'm glad I don't have a West Country accent but it doesn't bother me (lived near Bristol for a while now)
Highland Scots when it almost sounds Scandinavian, I'm not a massive fan of black country.
All accents are good, it’s the middle England mish mash embarrassment and portrayal of “Marlow Grammar” that gets on my tits.
They say there are seven different Scouse accents; there's a woman in our labs who is strongly Scouse and every time she sees me she calls me "Mr R..." using my surname; I don't know if it's out of genuine but misplaced respect or just for fun but I find it and her accent a big turn-on and I fantasize about doing very dirty things to her. Is this normal? Should I seek psycholocical help?
Can't stand Geordie, it's far too clipped and harsh. It also makes the speaker sound dim.
🙂 Harsh
I'm easy, though I find some hard to grasp - thick Cornish, for example. But in general it's what folk are saying that'll get to me before any accent.
Nothing can compare with the Gravesend chav accent. It's the sound of a grubby hand stuffed down a pair of grimy trackies.
Cockney/esturine is appalling. Don't mind most of the other regional accents but it does depend on the speaker and the local variant.
Would it be better to listen what people are saying, rather than poo-pooing thier accents ?
Just saying like!
PS Caramel Bunny here 🙂
Tell us your accent OP and rest of you lot 🙂
being pedantic here (but i can be as my Mum's family were all from Walker and Wallsend), proper Geordies are within hoying distance of the Tyne, so all these talking of Geordie accents probably wouldn't like a real Geordie accent as much as they think - it's quite harsh. But come a few miles south to Durham and i think it's beautiful, like Geordie but with a sing-song element to it.
Southern Irish to me, knew a girl from there once whose voice was like runny honey to a sore throat. And also some scottish, but that might be from Gregory's Girl in my formative years.
Middle of the toon Geordie spoken by a thick chav with nowt but fresh air between his ears makes me feel ashamed of my homeland ..as in Geordieshore ..
A Northumberland accent is nicer especially by a fit woman rolling her rrrrs 😉
Fiery Irish women ( North & South ) ..wowsa..also like .
Don't really like west country / Brizzle type accents or Manc ..purely because they are Manc. 8)
I like most regional accents, including Mancunian, Scouse, Brummie. I think my favourites are Northumbrian and Glaswegian.
Thinking further afield, I like a Greek accent.
The only one I'm not keen on is that American accent where the women talk with a "creaky" voice, it grates on my ears after a while.
I'll just leave this here.
Caramel bunny voice...
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How is Richard Burton an accent? 😕
Caramel Bunny here
Now,[i] that [/i]is an voice I could fall in love with. [i]Sigh . . .[/i]
London accents are pleasant enough so long as the speaker isn't [i]making a point of it[/i], as it were.
Essex & estuary/London sprawl is horrible on men & women alike, that's why so many of us who grew up in these areas there have a non-specific southern accent.
Brummies are similar, you can know people for years and one day they casually drop that they're from Birmingham.
Glasgwegian and Scouse but best of all is a proper Luuundun accent.
I heard Michelle Dockery in a commercial once, and quite liked her accent.
Plenty of easy-on-the-ear ascents. Welsh valleys,geordi, West Country, scotch..
But the worst for me have to be Scouse, south London estuary and public school/horse enthusiast.
Absolutely.horse enthusiast.
I met a Flemish girl who knew that when she spoke in English or Flemish, that her accent was exceptionally cute.
scouse and manc, both horrible, can't include one without the other.
a soft female scottish accent can be sublime.
Pikey accent? Sends shivers up my spine
Bleedin 'ate cockney... Got to dive for remote if I turn on TV and EastEnders is on
Worst accent on the planet may possibly be found in Saskatchewan, Canada. It's different, but similar to, Marge's accent in Fargo.
Western Isles for me, say Harris: it sounds like they've taken the nicest bits of Scottish and Irish accents and put them together.
Good - Southern Irish for a female; Northern Irish for a man.
Bad - Geordie, Swansea or valleys for a female; Brummie for a man.
Terrible - Scouse!
Swansea or valleys for a female
Is there a history in this, mooman? 😉
A strong scouse accent physically repulses me.
Literally!
Personally I find Chinese accents (there may be more than one) surprisingly unmellifluous.
I like accents, bit have to admit cockney or mockney and the maccunian accents really annoy me.
Maccunian is just moaning. Horrible.
I know a Brazillian bloke who has lived in Cardiff for about 12 years with a small stint in Leeds, where I met him, his accent is brilliant.
Icelandic ladies ftw...
Don't like scouse, and since I moved away from God's own county I've actually found I don't really like lots of West/south Yorkshire accents.
If you like the Richard Burton, try and listen to Cerys Matthews reading Dylan Thomas. Fablas!
There are few nicer sounds than a young Sikh man from Wolverhampton saying "Hello Mate". Mate seems to contain about nine separate vowels and a glottal stop. Bostin.
I very much dislike "General Purpose Northern Accent", "General Purpose 18th Century" and "General Purpose Cockney" in TV and radio dramas.
I find Liz Kershaw's accent unbearable. But not Fearne Cotton's. Oh no. Not going there.
All southern accents are great
All northern accents are awful
As plain as the nose on your face
Or as they would say, ars plairn uz tha nerrs on yer fairse
I mean, wtaf?!
Norn Irish - awesome. Even more so on women
A strong scouse accent physically repulses me.
Literally!
Yes.
You know that feeling when you turn over a piece of rotten wood and it's covered in earwigs, woodlouse and millipedes?
That.
Yes.
You know that feeling when you turn over a piece of rotten wood and it's covered in earwigs, woodlouse and millipedes?
That.
😀
+ Nuneaton Brummie
- Govan Glaswegian
South Wales accent on a female, oh yes.
You knows it! 😉 Happy to trade it for deep Southern USA though 😛
Not fond of Bristolian, especially when it’s a pretty girl speaking with it...
I do like Scottish and Irish, though not the stronger urban accents, like Glaswegian and Londonderry.
I was rather pleased to find that the TomTom app on my phone gives a voice option called ‘Naoimh’, which is a wonderfully soft Irish accent, and perfect for spoken directions. I have quiet fantasies sometimes about what the supplier of the voice actually looks like...
Actually, I imagine her looking like this lass:
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Her name’s Gemma Hayes, a singer/songwriter who has the same soft accent, and who I’ve met several times, just a lovely voice, if I had a big lottery win, I’d employ her to create audiobooks of my favourite books.
Sad, possibly but I just love the accent.
A whole gang of scouse women is probably the worst sound on Earth.
Best accent? Possibly Barnsley, like Ian McMillan.
+ Aberdeenshire, West Highland, Somerset, Geordie
- RP
Sad, possibly but I just love the accent.
Not at all. And if is this her then I fully agree...
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Western Isles for me, say Harris: it sounds like they've taken the nicest bits of Scottish and Irish accents and put them together.
Oh yes. Especially if they are native Gaelic speakers.
Love the Island accents up here in the north of Scotland, particularly The Outer Hebrides, Skye and Orcadian accents.
The far north Caithness accents deserve a mention too:
" Shot ae door keep ae heet un". Shut the door, keep the heat in.
or
" Got ae go ae Golspae on ae way up ae road ae pick up ae dowg". Got to go to Golspie on the way up the road to pick up the dog! Were two memorable quotes from fella i was in college with. The way they say dog is brilliant.
Hate hearing my own accent (strong Invernessian) on the telly.
Good: old school proper cockney that you very rarely hear anymore. Not that comedy mockney that people seem to think is real.
Awful: South African. Makes my skin crawl.