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Which accent do you absolutely love?

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AskAlice Thu 23-Mar-23 19:58:23

Hearing Steven Gerrard on the TV tonight (build up to the England game, which OH is currently watching.)

I just love a Scouse accent. Being Inner London born and bred, I have a typical Cockney accent (I was born in the City of London district within the sound of Bow Bells) but I think that is a boring sound. The Scouse accent just seems to sing!

What accent, apart from your own, appeals to you most?

songstress60 Sun 26-Mar-23 17:16:30

I like all Scottish, Geordie and Irish accents. HATE Scouse, Brummie and Essex accents. Voices are a big turn on or turn off for me. HATE David Beckhams voice. Can't see the attraction at all in him.

nipsmum Sun 26-Mar-23 17:21:22

I love the accent from the Hebrides. Some of the islands have lovely accents.

Grandmagrewit Sun 26-Mar-23 17:22:57

Very few people know what a Norfolk accent sounds like and certainly TV and radio dramas set in the county almost always get it wrong. It's quite a difficult accent for actors to copy and most end up sounding like they are from Devon - much to the frustration of those of us who live in Norfolk. The following is a pretty good example
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2bHBmXXdJo&t=76s

Noreen3 Sun 26-Mar-23 17:23:42

Irish

Kate1949 Sun 26-Mar-23 17:25:04

Not many actors can do a Brummie accent. Peaky Blinders drove me up the wall. Also the blonde lady in Doctors. Her supposed Brummie accent is hilarious.

essjay Sun 26-Mar-23 17:41:03

geordie, my dad was a geordie.

Seamus89 Sun 26-Mar-23 17:56:42

As I was born in West Lancashire (now part of the bigger Merseyside conurbation) I have a fondness for the very quiet Scouse/ Lancs accent I grew up with. I am astonished however when I hear current thick Scouse accents which seem so much harsher , more difficult to understand but somehow celebrated .
My favourites will always be North Welsh and Geordie

Amalegra Sun 26-Mar-23 17:59:34

Highland Scots accent closely followed by southern Irish. Beautiful (and sooo attractive in a man….!)

lilydily9 Sun 26-Mar-23 18:06:17

Irish accent for me.

Barmeyoldbat Sun 26-Mar-23 18:06:55

Just love the Welsh accent, so soft.

kjmpde Sun 26-Mar-23 18:09:30

I agree that too many people say "Fink" rather than think etc. Yet I know that is acceptable to many who hate my Brummie accent, despite the fact I can actually say the words.

jocork Sun 26-Mar-23 18:55:52

I love an Irish accent. I have my sat nav set to the Irish voice 'Sean' which I find very soothing. Unfortunately my sat nav doesn't update for traffic etc so I now mostly use my phone on google maps but the voice isn't so friendly.

Doodledog Sun 26-Mar-23 19:10:47

I’m another fan of the Geordie accent, and I also like a soft Glasgow one (eg Storm Huntley).

I don’t think it applies to a particular accent but the speech habit I most dislike is the grunt at the end of words. It’s not so much a glottal stop as an ‘uh’ sound. It’s used a lot in soaps - ‘You can’t leave me now - I’m pregnun-uh’

It duz me ‘ed in-uh!

grannypiper Sun 26-Mar-23 19:28:10

Scotland has many many accents, even Glaswegians have different accents within the city, the rougher eastside and the gentler southside. I love the Orcadian accent but the east Ayrshire one makes my teeth itch.

AGAA4 Sun 26-Mar-23 19:51:48

I like most accents. The only one that grates on me is the the very plummy one.

JPB123 Sun 26-Mar-23 20:47:06

Rural Lancashire and Southern Ireland…

SachaMac Sun 26-Mar-23 20:49:05

Geordie & variants of Irish or Scottish

Walkowl Sun 26-Mar-23 21:00:04

grannypiper

Scotland has many many accents, even Glaswegians have different accents within the city, the rougher eastside and the gentler southside. I love the Orcadian accent but the east Ayrshire one makes my teeth itch.

The rougher Glasgewian. Is beautiful in a way.

grannyrebel7 Sun 26-Mar-23 21:00:14

I love the USA deep south accent also a French accent.

Kamj Sun 26-Mar-23 21:08:32

The South African and Irish accents do it for me

4allweknow Sun 26-Mar-23 23:41:59

BigBertha1 Have to agree about all the shouting. I'm convinced half the population has hearing issues matched with no manners. It's not the accent it's what people say that counts for me though an Italian always attracts my attention.

IrishDancing Mon 27-Mar-23 10:08:55

Sloegin

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'.

Yes, Sloegin you’re quite right!
My favourite accent is Orcadian.

Silverlady333 Mon 27-Mar-23 15:57:39

I am a Geordie but I sometimes cringe at Geordies on the TV especially the ones with a very thick guttural version of the Geordie accent!

gulligranny Mon 27-Mar-23 17:00:25

I loathe the Liverpool accent but adore Glaswegian (I lived there for 10 years). Geordie is impenetrable to my Southern ear, but I like Birmingham and East Anglian accents.

A French accent can be charming as can some American ones, but I think my favourite is a well-modulated German accent - think the two Jurgens Klinsmann and Kopp. Mmm.

FannyCornforth Mon 27-Mar-23 17:23:51

gulligranny

I loathe the Liverpool accent but adore Glaswegian (I lived there for 10 years). Geordie is impenetrable to my Southern ear, but I like Birmingham and East Anglian accents.

A French accent can be charming as can some American ones, but I think my favourite is a well-modulated German accent - think the two Jurgens Klinsmann and Kopp. Mmm.

For heaven’s sake - can we please not say what accents we ‘loathe’?
It’s so bloody rude angry