What Accent do you like?

Mike

Mike

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British Airways surveyed 1,000 Americans and
1,000 Brits and asked them which accent they
liked best from the opposite country?

Americans about British accents.

Brits about American accents.

What accent do you like from the opposite
country?

B.A. Survey Result Here.

Mike.
 

I really love the soft lilt of Southern Irish! Northern Irish like Glaswegian, is much too harsh

I like American accents but of course they are all so diverse .
 
In my travels, I've heard many kinds. So, I'd have to say that my favorites would be anything that I could understand.

I have a friend who came from Scotland and I have to frequently ask him to repeat something in a way I can understand.

And he's been living here for many years now.
 
Falcon said:
In my travels, I've heard many kinds. So, I'd have to say that my favorites would be anything that I could understand.

I have a friend who came from Scotland and I have to frequently ask him to repeat something in a way I can understand.

And he's been living here for many years now.
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Yes but like Americans and all other countries it depends on which part of Scotland he comes from John. I am Scottish born and raised in a city in which has a very harsh and hard to understand accent..but I was raised in the West in quite an upmarket area where the accent was and is less slang related and with a softer dialect than the rest of the city ..similar I would imagine to the different accents in New York for example ..some are much more slang orientated and harsher than other parts! No-one has trouble understanding me anywhere in the world..yet many people raised in the east or south side of the city have trouble being understood.

Further north in Scotland there are accents even I as a Scot struggle sometimes to understand!!..:D There's quite a diverse range of accents for such a tiny country in Scotland alone...never mind the whole of the UK :D
 
I like the Scottish accent the best... the Irish brogue a close 2nd.. Not particularly fond of the accent of the British Royals.. whatever that one is called.

In the States... I really do prefer MY accent... Solid Midwest. then I suppose the Southern accent.... I really have a hard time with the Boston/New England accents.. Please learn to say your "R's" lol!! Just kidding..
 
I like American Southern accents, mainly North/South Carolina and Georgia, which are the areas most of my East Coast relatives reside .

My wife's birth family members live in PA., VT and NH; I find myself picking up that fairly lightweight accent, while visiting.
 
I like all accents. My neighbor for 7 or 8 years was from England and I really loved to listen to her. I hear Spanish all the time here where I live. The closest town to me is 11 miles away and it's a small farming town 98% Spanish speaking. My youngest son tells me all Spanish is not the same. But he manages to communicate well with any of them. His 2nd wife was from the Dominiquin Republic and I could understand her accent pretty well. She had been here about 6 years. His 3rd wife is from the Philippines and I'd have to go in the other room to look up where I wrote down what she speaks. I think it starts with a T. I have a harder time understanding her but he told me she understands what we say better than his 2nd wife did. I love them both. The one from DR was the best cook ever and really beautiful and sweet. The newest one is sweet, loving and helpful. I don't know if she's a good cook but whenever we visit she takes us to a nice restaurant so that's OK too. :) I have another daughter-in-law who is Swedish and oddly enough she speaks English almost perfectly with no accent. Our son, who has lived over there for about 30 years sometimes forgets what the American word is for this or that and it takes him awhile to think of it. That makes me feel very sad.
 
It's so hard to say what an American accent actually is.

Is it "pahk your cah in Hahvahd Yahd"?

Is it "fuggedaboudit"?

Is it "waal, bless yoah sweet lil heart, darlin'"?

Is it "I'm gone warsh the car terday"?

Do the words "elm" and "film" have one syllable or two?

Is the "ou" in house, couch and mouse pronounced like a cross between oo, ew and ow?

Valley Girl? Fargo-ese? Drawled Texan?

Really.....what IS an American accent?
 
See Glasgow and I think of the late Alex Harvey...much stage patter that to American ears sounds like Oot lorry n' das dingo...we luv you. At work my favorite is Jamaican and surrounding islands. One gentleman I work with often, has Creole as a first language...my French is laughable so I sort of read his lips. Aussie will win my heart no matter the source.

Not dissing Scotland...if you ever heard me at work..." Heyhowyadoin'?KinIhelpyaohyeah rightovahheahyeahnahtheycomeinginourmousoryakintrythesizeovahheah" Got that? Broken down-I'm happy to help the customer and they are looking for a bug spray. The great big size is on one shelf then the smaller ones are right above the big bottles.
 
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I like a Scottish accent that is not a thick Glasgwegian or a thick Edinburgh (not a Sean Connery one). My husband was raised in Glasgow but he says his accent was never thick. He hasn't lived in Glasgow since he was 19 and he also spent 18 years in London, so I find his accent very soft. My relatives understand him although some that he doesn't spend much time with like nieces and nephews and their spouses have a bit of trouble understanding him sometimes. But I think often it's the word he used, not the accent. It took me a while to get attuned the accent around where I live but I have no problem now unless I run into a Glasgwegian who sounds like they are speaking at 100 mph.

I love the southern Ireland accents and find the Northern Irish one a bit annoying.

As for the US, on our recent trip I really enjoyed listening to the Massachusetts accents of the tour guides, etc.

I recently discovered I like a Geordie accent like the young guy in this clip of the series George Gently:

I can't find a clip of the actor Lee Ingleby speaking so had to link an entire episode. Good show though.


And I love the highland accent of this character in the series Outlander: a wee bit of Gaelic, oh and some nudity in the last two minutes


Here's a clip demonstrating different Scottish accents:

 
That lady voice coach in the video has the different Scottish accents down pat perfectly...

As for Geordie Annie...similar to Glasgow...the majority of Geordie is quite strong, like in this clip with Jimmy Nail..usually if it's a soft version they're from further North like Northumberland or a little further south

 
RadishRose said:
Reminds me; once a few of us girls went out to dinner. Our waiter had a very heavy French accent and we all fell in love with him immediately!
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That reminds me of a chat up line a lovely lady once used on me, and it gave me something to remember always.

I come from Liverpool, and of course we Liverpool people have a Scouse Accent
(Think Beatles).:D

I was in a pub (bar) one evening, and the lady said to me (This is True)...

'Ooohhh, you look nice, and I just LOVE your Scouse accent.
I could just lay there and listen to it all night!
So make my day'!

I thought that was really lovely, so I granted her that wish!:):D

 
Not that little girl BC...she's verrrry young for her age!!


Have to say...the scouse (liverpool) and the brummy accent (Birmingham) in England are the accents I dislike most. The Glaswegian ( my home city) and the Dundonian (Dundee) accent ( my mothers' city are the ones I dislike most in Scotland...the Belfast accent in Northern Ireland...and the Swansea accent in Wales...errrk!!

I have a really good ear for accents...and I love most people's dialects but those all grate on my nerves..including my own home city LOL

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ts-worse-than-staying-silent-study-shows.html
 
I have a strong Scottish accent of no particular area,
I have smoothed the rough edges in order to be understood
as I have lived out of Scotland for a very long time, yet,
when I am in Scotland I am called an English man!

In the early days of the telephone, when you had to call an
operator to connect your call, it was rumoured that anybody
with an accent from Inverness or its surrounding area were
paid more than those from anywhere else in the UK because
they had the best accent that could be understood in all
areas of the UK. I don't know if this is true though.

Mike.
 

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