Accents-best and worst top three

[Sawl]

I love accents,mostly. My top three favourite are:

1.Southern states -America-once spent at least an hour longer than I should have in a coffee shop in Phoenix listening to two ladies from Alabama chatting! !

2.Italian women saying anything! Worked in Italy for a year,completely seduced by the language.

3.Southern Ireland-Although I am English I spent most of my youth living with my friends family who are Irish,just to hear that lilt makes me smile .


Love to hear others views

 

[lovetoread]

I love all accents. I have a thing for the posh English ones.

Except for the southern one, as that just makes me think of family.

Not that I have an accent, mind you.

 

[Hard_Rom]

1. Northern English
2. Any Scots
3. Any Irish

Euro accents on girls is hot. Russian or Eastern Europe the most.

 

[Sawl]

I don't think I have ever met anyone who thought they have an accent...until they hear themselves on audio !

I tell myself and family I have a neutral accent (which makes family smirk),until I hear myself. Then I sound like Bill Sykes from the film of Oliver Twist !!

 

[Hard_Rom]

The most neutral accents may be central Canada (Ontario) and parts of the American east coast. A true blend of practically every accent spoken in Europe and Britain. And not subject to the isolation under which most regional accents developed. Printing presses had standardized English by then. That's why when Brits sing they sound like many North Americans.

 

[Wings]

I love listening to people and trying to pick out their unique words. My accent is a mess of Minnesotan and Southern with some Chicago brusqueness thrown in.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I mix an Ontario accent with a hint of Hull. A friend once remarked how posh she thought my mum spoke with her English accent. My mum was a fisherman's daughter from Hull or 'ull as they say back 'ome. You can't get less posh than that back 'ome.

 

[Sawl]

Sounds like a great accent Wings
I was in Hull last week, definitely a distinctive sound
The only way I can tell most American accents from Canadian accents us to ask the person to say the word "about" most,(but by no means all that I have heard) Canadians sound slightly Scottish to my ears and tend to say "aboot"

 

[Sean]

I was in Hull last week,

Unlucky.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Sounds like a great accent Wings
I was in Hull last week, definitely a distinctive sound
The only way I can tell most American accents from Canadian accents us to ask the person to say the word "about" most,(but by no means all that I have heard) Canadians sound slightly Scottish to my ears and tend to say "aboot"

It's never 'aboot'. Although it may be 'aboat'.

 

[pink]

I love the English accent.



and I too, have no accent.

 

[Lyricalli]

1) His
2) His
3) And oh, god his...

 

[lovetoread]

Unlucky.

Work on poshing up that accent, bubs.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Brits pretty much all sound like homeless pretenders to glory of long ago and now gone.

No one said it lately, but for much of my life women loved to talk to me and said I had BEDROOM VOICE, whatever that is. But the compliment was common and often.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Unlucky.

'ere 'ang on! Don' bludday laike 'ull, lump i'.

From Hessle actually. I'm thinking Hesslites (?) prefer not to be too closely linked with Hull.

 

[barefootgirl69]

1) His
2) His
3) And oh, god his...

*nods head in agreement* yeah!

I haven't heard a British accent I didn't like
or Australian
and then there's Louisiana

Mine is a mix of Maryland, North Carolina (the Hills), Georgia and California.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Paula Deen destroyed my liking of US southern accents. Worst voice/accent on TV I have ever heard. Like fingernails on a chalkboard.

 

[Lyricalli]

*nods head in agreement* yeah!

I haven't heard a British accent I didn't like
or Australian
and then there's Louisiana

Mine is a mix of Maryland, North Carolina (the Hills), Georgia and California.

Three different ones on my list, and two of the three you've mentioned there.

 

[duranman]

Best: 1/ Italian 2/ Queens's English 3/ Scottish Highlands

Worst: 1/Brummie 2/ Nothern Irish 3/ Glaswegian

 

[gunthernehmen]

My top picks:

Southern belles
Irish lasses
French mademoiselles
English muffins

I would add South Africa and Australia if I could think of a cute way to refer to them. Similar enough to the posh English accent that I can let it slide.

 

[Hard_Rom]

My top picks:

Southern belles
Irish lasses
French mademoiselles
English muffins

I would add South Africa and Australia if I could think of a cute way to refer to them. Similar enough to the posh English accent that I can let it slide.

Go to some Aussie bar and say out loud 'You all sound like posh English'. Then fucking run!

 

[Sawl]

"and then there's Louisiana"
Oh yes !!

 

[Hard_Rom]

I don't know a single Australian that would give a shit if you did that.

I know 3. In fact half of all Aussies I have ever met had a dislike of 'poms'. And they are not of a very old generation. All bludday republicans too.

And I did say in a bar where people might be drunk and rowdy.

 

[kcRollins]

Australian
French
Welsh

 

[gunthernehmen]

Go to some Aussie bar and say out loud 'You all sound like posh English'. Then fucking run!

Well it was INTENDED as a compliment. They both sound exotic and sexy to me.

Italian
Scottish
And there's something about the Boston accent

I have to go park my car in Harvard Yard.