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Which regional accents do you like the best, the worst and why?

You are allowed 3 of each and as a bonus you can have two International accents.

My likes in no particular order:
West Country – Such a down to earth accent.
Welsh – Soft and musical and a joy to listen to particularly if a woman speaks.
Brummy – Lends itself to humour as Jasper Carrott exploited to the full.

My dislikes also in no particular order:
Yorkshire – It gives the wrong impression that the speaker is as thick as two short planks.
Scottish – Most of the time I can’t understand a word that is spoken.
Cockney – The speakers seem to think that the world ends when you can’t hear the sound of Bow Bells anymore.

The funniest International accent has to be an Indian speaking English. It’s the grammar as much as the sound and the mannerisms that make it hilarious.

The West Indies accent comes a very close second and can be as funny as a Brummy.

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My 'dislikes' in a very particular order!! ;)


1. Brummie
2. Mancs
3. Scousers

but I know what it is that I dislike, they exagerate the vowels to much .... (Brummie) I live in B*eee*m*iii*ngham! (Mancs) c *aaaa*r p*aaa*rk and (Scouse in a very high pitched squeal) G*eeeee*rmany!

Hope that made sense it was the only way I could try to explain it lol!

I like

1. Geordies
2. Irish

and of course No. 3 our own accent. :D

International .... the only one I really like is Spanish. So very, very sexy it makes me go weak at the knees

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I Dislike Strong Irish Accents Like Ian Paisley,s,
......
I Like Welsh Accents,and Northern Of Course

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Oh And I Dont Like Devs Accent On Corrie...

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Ooooo Its got to be

• Scouse Accent
• Bolton Accent
• And I dont mind the Lancashire Accent.

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I do not like:

1) Upper-Class Twit accent

2) Scouse accent

3) East Midlands accent.

4) Sarf London accent (which is not cockney)

Geordie and Glaswegian are not accents; they are languages, on a par with some of the obscure Amazonian Indian languages and both comprise a simple linguistic structure amounting to ten or twelve different grunts, five clearings of the nasal passage, a couple of reverse farts and nowt else.

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My favourites

1) Durham/Northumberland
2) Cornwall/Devon
3) Norfolk/Suffolk

There aren't any accents I really don't like and I was hard pressed to choose just 3. :)

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My absolute hate is cockney!!!! even when people are on T.V I have to turn over it's that bad. I'm also not so keen on Glasgow Accent!! I feel like I am being spat on all the time when they talk to me. I also don't like hearing my accent on T.v, it sounds very common.



I love County Durham accent, I actually don't mind any other Accent apart from ABOVE.

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MIne are

* Cockney sparrows - even worse when they move up north & try to converge the north/south mumbo i know i divorced one :D

* Cornwall devonish combine haaarvesterrr

* Brummie

* Mancunian

* Strong scouse [ a bits fine have to say cos my mate is scouse lancs so may get me car stereo nicked if she reads that shes from posh end]

* Strong N Irish

Like our native lancashire we speak proper :D

Other accents i hate are Yanks "have a nice day u all" so darn false

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dislike in no particular order- brummie - crossroads did me head in. geordie- like the people but can't tell a word they say. somerset- YOKELS lol. likes scouse- want to keep my car.:D cockney- want to keep my jewelry.:D southern irish- my favourite.:)

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Can't stand the sound of it -
Manchester - not the proper Manc accent, but the modern Oasis/Madchester/moronic accent. I have to listen to chavs round here using it all the time.
Estuary English - that strange sort of drawling accent that's not quite cockney. A lot of media people use it. Mick Jagger does it perfectly.
...but the sound I detest most of all is the sound of an Accringtonian who has moved down south and covered their accent up with a "posh" voice. Fair makes me want to spit!

Music to my ears -
Southern Irish - I'm with with Mr. C on that one. Could listen to 'em all day.
Latin-accented English - my missus speaks it!
My first love, though, is pure Accy. Only live 30 miles away, but I miss it...I really miss it.

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Like-
Lancastrian, but only within five miles of Ossy.
Bermudian.
French, but not Parisian.

Dislike-
Brummy.
Mockney. Rich kids affecting a cockney accent to appear cool and street.
Anybody on Trisha.

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I like the northern irish accent but not the way people in Belfast speak it its too harsh the border area is softer and its easier to pick up, the geordie accent and lancastrian and the welsh and liverpudlian one as well.

I hate londoners accent its horrible.

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East lancs has to be the place for local accents, when my parents moved us from Blackburn to Ossie the natives used to take the micky out of my accent, LOL (only moved about 5 miles!) e.g if I might say "down town" I got ribbed cos it should be "dan t taan" looks abit cockney when trying to type it. But I reckon I was thrown in the deep end anyway.. I mean who the F thought up " as ti fekillin, far ti middlin"?

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Dont really mind accents its part of a persons identity. If any accent makes me cringe its Orcadian and Doric.:(

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I Like a soft Scotish accent( Edinburgh ) Clare Grogan comes to mind.
I don,t Like mine, Which is a Lancashire . But then again does anybody like the sound of there own voice.
I also so like Icelandic.

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The lovely wee Clare is actually from Glasgow, but does have a great accent.

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I like

Geordie
Eire - definitely a nicer sound from the south
Somerset - cider country

I don't like
North Manchester
Fake accents - and you can usually spot them
Mid Atlantic drawl that's neither American or English!


I also like French accents when they're speaking English.

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My favourite has got to be the Aussie accent.Followed closely by the southern Irish.Im sorry if I offend anyone on here but my worst accent has got to be scouse,followed closely by brummie.:D

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have to love the geordie accent, as i have one:not_ripe:irish is well funny so like that aswell ermm thats about it for me likes, have to say i hate southern accents, but that has to do with me hating them full stop(big headed f**kers!!) and im talking about london area there becuase just thought that to me you are southern!! dont mind the lancashire accent, even though to me it makes no sense whatsoever, and brings me on to the subject of why the hell you lot call buns, tea cakes or balms, never got my head round that and still get funny looks when in the chippy asking for a portion of chips with a bun, looks like i just ran in there house and p((sed on there kids (thankx peter kay for that saying!!)

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I love Aussie accents and Scouse accents an also like the Geordie accent.
Don't like the broad hard to understand Scots accent. Do like a nice Irish lilt.

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likes 1 South African/Rhodesian
2 New Zealand
3 Southern U S (Texan/Okie/Arkie)

dislike 1 Austrian German
2 Australian
3 Boston US
4 New York US

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East midlands! thats me tealeaf,North Warwickshire, the very centre of England, home to the battle of bosworth, war of the roses, last battle of boudica, Englands first booktown, the jewel of the midlands. :confused: why, it's a very middle of the road accent, with pronunciation of words giving it away as being quite close to wolverhampton/blackcountry, rather than an accent(goo instead of go, a lot of locals also say lof instead of laugh, um instead of home,which are blackcountry, although strangely only a few odd words are used that are blackcountry. It's been described in several places during the days when I travelled the country as having 'a very slight twang'.
It's only recently that it's been pointed out that we are using black country words with only a very weak birmingham acccent. Also it's strange because they are black country words and yet birmingham is nearer yet they don't use them.

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I don't really dislike any, I think each is unique and shows that each area of the country has a unique character, unique identity, unique people with their own way of speaking, way of doing things, outlook on life and personality traits.

I dislike the people changing them more. and mostly thats bigger cities which is probably something to do with that I tend to hear them more and they get annoying. People like lisa on bb speak with that sloby cocky drawnout manc accent. it's very chavy.

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Is there a name for people who appear accentless? I can think of 2 people off the top of my head. ;) Sorry but your one of them Mr Rindy Roo. I was talking to mthead about accentless people and we both agreed yours isn't noticeable.

Do you loose your accent the more you move around the country and instead of adopting other accents you just seem accentless or does it depend were your from?

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People have said that to me before.:(

I think it started when I moved to Liverpool to do my degree, then working in London for years, followed by a couple of years in Scotland.

In London a lot of the people I worked for came from all over the world so you ended up having to speak clearly, that's probably why my accent is accentless perhaps.

Even though I may not sound it, in my heart I will always be 'E by gum'.:)

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Ooops. Loosing the plot.:(

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That's strange, when I've had the occasional word with you on the Clayton End, I thought you did have a local accent, albeit not very extreme. I must stop drinking that Stella in the Oakleigh!

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I love a good old lancashire accent, a lovely southern irish accent and i also like a soft scottish accent.
my hates include geordie accent, southern accent hard to understand, haha and welsh

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I have lived in Australia for nearly 18 years and I sound just like I have come off the boat, now my brother came out here 3 years ago and his kids sound just like Aussies, I think you lose your accent quicker when you are young,also I have found since living here in Oz, it is just one accent for all the country, they can't beleive that you only need to travel few miles in England and you can pick up changes, for example I am from Gt Harwood and my Wife is from Whalley and they think she is from another part of England.

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I wouldn't say rindy has a local accent, although in a pub it's hard to tell. It's called a bbc accent, after the news readers that used to read the news without an accent.

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In 1972 we moved to Durham City, from North Yorkshire, when my older children were aged 9 and 7. My daughter, the older one, continued to speak as she did and still does, more or less accentless. My son was speaking like a native Durhamite within weeks. Three years later we moved here to Cheshire. My son started at Primary School here and came home very upset, saying (in broad Durham again), "Nobody will play with me 'cause they say I'm Scottish and they don't understand me". I think it took him about a week to lose the Durham accent and fit in with everyone else. :D

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lol, thats actually funny isn't it, and proves that most of the accent is habit, we do a lot of it because others do. I wonder if I'd lose my strange accent if I moved.

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Children are great at picking up accents easily & quickly even just being with another accented person.

My mate rang me last night all lancashire soon as we talk about Coleen roons misses & mikey out of big brother - oh geez her native scouse came out:eek: even more you can tell when she's in a right mood it rears its head though least you can run quick as soon as the twang starts pmsl:D

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I think it would depend on how strong an accent the area had. My auntie moved to Liverpool in the 80's to go to university and has adopted a very strong scouse accent.

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Not strong anything here, all the strong ones are all around brummie black country wolves derby, notts loughborough(bonnah) leicester, coventry and me stuck in the middle, bit of everything.
I personally think I started to pick up some liverpool during the eight years I was either up visiting or living there but I'm sure I'm cured now. I'd rather have a lancs accent than scouse anyday, me.

mel whats a twang?

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only dislike any accent that comes from someone who is so stuck up there own a** **** they try to think they know the queens english better! other than that i love being a Lancashire lad! Accy and proud of it

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yes, you are what you are, and as long as you make the best of what you are and don't pretend your better than what you are then you should be proud, good on ya.

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used to mate with a guy (irish) whose wife was accy born n bred but everytime they went across the water for a holiday his missus came back with the strongest irish accent you ever heard lol and he talked as lancashire as me. happy days- was really good mickey taking material.:D :D

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I know the feeling cashy. When I go on holiday to Ireland and stop with my cousins they cant tell what i'm saying - they say i have a broad lancashire accent! When I come back everybody says they cant tell what i'm saying because i've picked up the irish accent!

Can't win either way can i!

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I'm sorry Tealeaf but that's just an ignorant point of view..........by the way.

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My pal Dennis (UBZ on Accyweb) emigrated to Canada in the early 90s and has never been back to the UK since, the Canadians could not understand what he was saying in his Lanky accent although it was not all that broad so he develped a Canadian accent, I met up with him a few months ago on MSN and we had a chat on the microphones, I was quite surprised that his Lancashire accent has virtually dissappeared.

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When you look at the lovely Lesley Garret,,you cant imagine that deep Yorkshire accent...:D

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I can't believe how broad Lisa Stanfeild talks. after listening to her records

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I love the kentish accent (im so modest) lol and i hate my mixed kent and lancashire accent,it dissapears nicely when im talking to southerners :)

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Got asked where I was from and told I talk funny, by people from coalville just up the road. Worse still It wan't just me, I was with my brother too, so we both talk funny. At least I don't pronounce bonnie as bonah. bloomin leicestershire people can't speak proper themselves.

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I've got friend in Leicestershire & they dont speak like Bonnaah shes one on her own is that one!!

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There is one thing I've noticed, particularly on tv from commentaters is in the last decade or so, is a gradual change of the vowel 'u'. We all know how we pronounce it in lanky and we all know how the southerners pronounce it. But there are alot of english words that have to be pronounced like the lanky 'u' regardles of where your'e from. For example:- J.W.Bush. This name should be pronounced with the lanky 'u' but the habit of the toffee nosed buggers has been to pronounce it somewhere between the southern 'u and almost like they are saying Bash. Its almost as though they don't want to associate themselves with the lanky 'u' any more. They have even started doing it with the words ' would and could' and other like words. Silly sods. Me , well I like my own accy dialect best even though I can speak oz no worries. Sometimes I find myself mixing both together, especially after a few turps.:D or when I meet another pom with an accent. The Welsh accent I like and the Irish as well. American!! No thanks.

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Even the local folks in Bury (which no matter what anyone says is still in Lanky as far as I am concerned) have started to call it Berry. We can't win!

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lanky 'me' lol
I have no idea what your getting at terry to be honest, how do southerners pronounce 'u' then, are you saying they say 'a'? or 'e' i'm lostcos I'm more northern than southern, if I moved anywhere it would be north. with the exception of perhaps kent, or devon
Bury has always been bury to me, not berry as in newbury, despite people telling me it's not down here. another is shrewsbury, the locals say it shrew s bury, elsewhere its shrowbery and I get told off for it, when I'm the one thats bloomin right lol.

Mel, I think she had a speach impediment, because as you say they don't sound that bad, but you get what I mean. they're like 19 miles from here, loughborough is 22, but then look at you and the manks.

I didn't realise bury was lancs, but then I suppose it would have been, along with wigan, and merseyside. do bury people thinbk of themselves as lancs or or mancs, cos wigan think of themselves as lancs.

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I think it depends which football team you support wether they think of themselves as Lanks or Manks, if you support Bury (The Shakers) its Lank but if its Man Utd its Mank also there is a shortage of letter Ts over here as lots of people don't pronounce it.

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I could say somethin, but I'd upset the man u fans and the non of the non manu fans will rescue me.