Which accent do you absolutely love?

French and also love a brummie accent

I suppose I ought to say Welsh because DH was Welsh but years of military exile had watered it down so that it was barely discernible most of the time. But it really has to be the Geordie accent for me. I could listen to it all day long.

Thanks for the votes for us geordies!

FannyCornforth
Of course Black Country is acceptable too! Who could resist the lilting tones of Upper Gornal, Dudley and West Bromwich, to name but a few? 😍

Kate1949

I actually think the Birmingham accent is awful but I love it because it's mine.

😂😂😂

FannyCornforth

fiorentina51

Brummie for me.

Oh! Oh! I could kiss you! 🥰
(Is Black Country acceptable?)

But there's a world of difference between Brummie and Potteries accents - with several variations in between 😀

For those who say they like a ,' southern Irish' accent - which one? Accents vary from county to county and even within a county. I live in Fermanagh N.ireland and accent here is very different from eg a Co Antrim accent. There is a middle class N.Irish accent which is not associated with any particular area - a sort of 'standard Ulster'.

Geordie.

I'm Hull born/bred but always liked Geordie...my family live and work up there so get the opportunity. Love hearing the local kids in the playground. it's like another language to learn - and speak to be understood..

Im a native scouser who had to negotiate to RP in uni otherwise my international students would not have understood me. I do revert to scouse when I return to Liverpool but my accent was never as pronounced as that of my family because I moved in different circles. I like soft Irish and Welsh accents.

Funny how we associate places with accents. After a long trip abroad when I was younger I got on a Qantas plane ( good old days when it was decent) and got all teary when I heard the Aussie accents of the crew. There must have been a few of us because a cheer went up when we finally landed in Perth.

Lilypops

Glammanana Do you find the scouse accent of years ago is very different to the very strong drawn out lazy sound of today? , I do, born and bred in Liverpool I would hardly believe it was the same accent

Born in Liverpool, yes the accent has changed and on returning regularly, it can go through me like a knife. It generally was much softer years ago. My family were softly spoken and my mother could tell the difference between north and south Liverpool (Ringo)😁

I love a South Wales accent as it reminds me of being deflowered (in a nice way lol) also Irish.

Not keen on the Sarth London accent ... even if it is mine
LOVE the Geordie accent

As I said, I love the Scouse accent but I hate the way John Bishop speaks. I have no idea why

Kate1949

As I said, I love the Scouse accent but I hate the way John Bishop speaks. I have no idea why

John Bishop has an exaggerated fake Liverpool accent. He actually grew up in Winsford, Cheshire and just happened to be born in Liverpool.

There are definitely two clearly different families of Scouse accent, the sharper, more guttural one north of the Prescot Road and the softer and more rounded one to the south.

My natural accent is Woollyback, Scouse as spoken outwith the city itself, since I spent my formative years on the Wirral (Woollybacks are also found in south Lancashire and parts of Cheshire and North Wales.

I love the Scouse accents in all its forms and I get on the defensive whenever people say it is ugly. I know Brummie gets this too, I have no dog in that fight but I do sympathise. Whenever I hear Winifred Robinson's upmarket Scouse on the wireless I get a very warm glow. Conversely, and I wasn't going to talk about accents I dislike but I have my reasons, I dislike London accents. This is partly down to bullying for my accent having been dropped in Welwyn Garden City (full of London overspill in the 60s) at the tender age of 11, and partly because of the free pass "cockney" culture gets in comparison to other working-class accents. In primary school on Wirral we were told our Woollyback accents and culture were "common" and undesirable whereas we were taught approvingly of pearly kings and queens, and "cockney" rhyming slang, which may have been invented in the thieves' middens of the East End but long since became more widespread. Oh yes, and chirpy cockneys being defiant in the Blitz, as if the people of Liverpool and Hull and Clydebank didn't get the shit bombed out of them night after night too.

Oh really holly ? I didn't know that. His voice grates on me for some reason.

I am a Brummie born and bred with, I think, a strong accent. When we moved close to The Black Country about 40 years ago, I found it very difficult to understand what some of the people were saying although we were still in Birmingham.

Winsford is classic Woollyback territory. It was a Liverpool overspill town in the 1950s,

The one I would have if I had never moved. Never heard it on T.V. and only spoken by the local people move twenty miles east and it has gone.
Geordie is friendly and lilting and Welsh up in the north.

Geordie

I am Irish and still have an Irish accent. It is not strong. I don't have a preference so long as I can understand what is being said.

Southern Irish and Scottish.

I think Phyllis Logan - Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey - has a delightful Scottish accent

I love accents but hate bad grammar. Keep the accents but preserve good English.

Liam Neeson please! (Scouse not a favourite, seems to sound argumentative even when they're not.)