Accents, Do you have a fav?

French accents can vary, but the one I love is Arsene Wenger's, but now that he is no longer with Arsenal, we don't hear so much of him. As for Scottish accents of which there are many, the Highland accent is beautiful; my native county of Ayrshire has several accents, the least attractive being an irritating drawl.

then Welsh a close second.

Which Welsh accent though?

I’m with the ‘love any regional accent’ brigade. An accent seems to give a person more depth of character. But I absolutely detest a ‘strangled by the old school tie’ accent or cut glass, as an earlier poster called it. I’m sure these unfortunates are often lovely people but truly they would benefit from some elocution lessons so they sound more normal.

I love a Italian accent and a soft Scottish one.

i do not like east end but love scouse accents, also like geordie, talking about countries, i dont like australian and south african but like american

I like the Yorkshire accent,,it somehow seems honest.
I don’t like the South African accent.

Am I right in believing the expression " All round the Wrekin " is a Brummie expression, haven't heard it any where else? It is useful and we use it for our daily circular walk .

LullyDully, I’ve always thought it meant going the long way round to your destination and was local to the Wrekin area. But given the proximity to B’ham, you may be right.

I haven't lived in north Lancashire since I left for university but I've always loved hearing the local accent when I travelled back to visit my parents. It felt very homely and welcoming.

I love a French accent, so romantic.
Also southern Irish, warm and welcoming.
Where we live a Hampshire accent is sometimes heard and is soft and pleasant.

I can't listen to a Brummie voice for long, it just grates on my ears. Sorry all Brummie GNers!

I love Irish accents

As someone who has spent years trying to soften her Geordie accent I'm delighted to see so many people like it. Personally I love all Irish accents but I'm afraid I don't like cockney. Sadly I still feel inferior when someone speaks to me in a plummy voice, they always seem to be looking down their nose at the same time.

I think in any city there are very strong accents which are difficult to listen to and there are soft accents which are charming. My parents are from Belfast but do not have that hard, grating form of the accent. I lived in Manchester for many years and had friends whose accents were dreadful and others who sounded just fine. You can’t just generalise about the accents of any geographical area..

Geordie and Irish for me.

French first, followed by Scottish, Southern Irish and then Geordie.

I think the accents I love are the ones that were spoken by older people I loved. My Nanna and Grampy had a lovely Oxfordshire accent (think Pam Ayres) and my mother-in-law a strong Bristolian one because they lived all their lives in those areas.
My parents moved around for most of their lives and we children picked up different accents from each place.
When we moved from Corby in Northamptonshire I couldn't understand why my new schoolmates said I had a Scottish accent! Later I learned that a lot of the people that lived in Corby had come down from Scotland with the local steel works.

Grandma70s

I like RP myself. Does that count?

I quite like very mild Scottish, like Andrew Marr or Michael Gove. (Not that I like Michael Gove in general.)

I did wonder if RP would even be considered as an accent, in this thread.
I'm astonished to learn that Michael Gove has any kind of Scottish accent.
I don't hear it at all.

I like far too many accents to name, including many of the more guttural, urban ones.

Geordie and Yorkshire. Can’t understand a word spoken with a Glasgow accent. I had a friend from Lancashire, that was nice too.

Middlesborough area - almost a mellow Geordie.

Scottish then Geordie. I count Geordies as honoury Scots though.

Peewitt52

Sean Bean’s Sheffield accent.?

Me too!

I like the sound of Geordie too - but can't understand it!

Can’t understand a word spoken with a Glasgow accent.

That varies too, though. Once I told someone I was sorry, but I didn't speak her language- it turned out she was from Glasgow . However, I have a couple of friends from Glasgow and they speak very precisely and clearly.

Yorkshire although there are regional variations. Geordie and French.

Irish accent, southern not northern!! Hate the annoying northern accent

Love southern Irish accent. Remember having lots of phone calls to an Irish housing officer when I was a community nurse. I was just enraptured by his voice and fantasized about him. Reality hit when I met him at a meeting . Bald,red faced with open sandals wearing socks. So disappointed !!