[Closed] Your favourite - and least favourite - accents

Faves Yorkshire, least faves cockney

Don't mind brummie. Absolutely cannot stand Bristol/west country. Makes my skin crawl. Can't stand geordie on women. Indian irritates the hell out of me too, but that's probably related to having to speak to clueless call centres. Yorkshire and Lancs are pretty awful too.

Geordie is good but proper Northumbrian is better.
Bristolian/ SW and Scouse are ok.
Cockney is not ok.
Brummie can be either ok or not, dependant on who is talking.
East Midlands accent is ok but being addressed as 'duck' - you can duck right off.

Best accent I've ever heard was a Spanish-Irish mix. The woman who had it might have had something to do with it though.

I also like a good Glaswegian-Indian accent, best with lot's of swearing.

Least favourite is the Brummie accent - bloody awful!

Favourite is Geordie. Least favourite is Scouse. I'm not mad keen on my own either (Leeds/Wakefield tempered with a bit of Bratfud)

Detest a thick Scouse accent. Brum/Black Country crap also.
Quite like Norn Iron accent especially a lady 😉

Quite like Norn Iron accent especially a lady

Oh yes!

Miranda Richardson in 'The Crying Game' 😉

Geordie = beautiful

Brummie = not so much so

Also:

Essex makes my ears bleed

Almost all Scottish accents are lovely (when spoken by women).

Geordie is good but proper Northumbrian is better.

Prroppa Northumbrrian is a spoken art, I love it. That guttural 'rrrurrling' of the letter R has to be heard to be believed.

That's my fave. Southern Irish next followed by NE Scottish. (Love John Bishops accent though)

Anything north of Inverness seems to be a lovely mellow Scottish accent with a hint of Scandinavian the further north you go, beautiful.
A strong scouse accent physically repulses me.

Almost all Scottish accents are lovely (when spoken by women).

Agreed.

I think accents suit the person. Although I'm not keen on the Brummie accent it suits Ozzy Osbourne perfectly.

A strong scouse accent physically repulses me.

🙂

Love Maxine Peake's and Simon Armitage's accents
Hate trying-too-hard posh (brilliantly demonstrated/parodied by Beatrice in C4's The Windsors)

Essex makes my ears bleed

Oh you'd luv me, sunshine... 🙂

Scouse ... stop all the spitting... 'orrible

Lancashire ... I'd happily listen to David Lloyd all day.

Northern irish is quite brutal on the ears .

Despite actually being from around Glasgow, I do hate to hear a common, dirty weegie accent on TV. N'aaw that man.

They just sound stupid.

Hate scouse, it’s like finger nails on a chalkboard to me. Also dislike Black Country and Brummie, bummer really.

Fave is a nice soft Female South Yorkshire accent

Waiting for CFH to creepily mention that French girl again.... 3...2....1

Like my wifes North Yorkshire accent.

I don't know if it is just because she is so irritating but cant stand Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish accent (but dont mind other Scottish accents so think it is more her!)

Italian on the ladies, or i'd go with Geordie/Welsh if we have to stick to the UK... But it also depends on the person it's associated with of course.

A female with a deep voiced Lancashire accent lovely, yeah I know.

Essex just awful and seem to love to hear themselves.

Well, she does have a rather alluring tone, HYD!

Anyway, the finest accent is clearly Richard Burton. That softest of Welsh lilts combined with such clarity.

The worst accent is Germans speaking English. It just tends to come across wrong, too stentorian at times.

tru dat (Richard Burton)!

on the ladeyz.... East Coast Scottish or Italian.

South Wales accent on a female, oh yes.

Harsh NI accent on a bloke, oh no. Heard known accomplice of a well known former loyalist terrorist talking in a pub one day this summer, sounded liking he was choking on a brick. I wish he was tbh.

Can't stand Geordie, it's far too clipped and harsh. It also makes the speaker sound dim.

The Devonshire accent is nice and soft, as long as they don't sound like too much of a wurzel.

But best of all has to be Hereford/Lower Marches, as it has the warmth and softness of a southern rural rolling lilt, without the brashness of the Bristol accent.

As has been mentioned, a lot of it comes down to the individual speaker.

Brummie is by far the worst for me, scouse second then probably geordie. I'm glad I don't have a West Country accent but it doesn't bother me (lived near Bristol for a while now)

Highland Scots when it almost sounds Scandinavian, I'm not a massive fan of black country.

All accents are good, it’s the middle England mish mash embarrassment and portrayal of “Marlow Grammar” that gets on my tits.

They say there are seven different Scouse accents; there's a woman in our labs who is strongly Scouse and every time she sees me she calls me "Mr R..." using my surname; I don't know if it's out of genuine but misplaced respect or just for fun but I find it and her accent a big turn-on and I fantasize about doing very dirty things to her. Is this normal? Should I seek psycholocical help?

Can't stand Geordie, it's far too clipped and harsh. It also makes the speaker sound dim.

🙂 Harsh

I'm easy, though I find some hard to grasp - thick Cornish, for example. But in general it's what folk are saying that'll get to me before any accent.

Nothing can compare with the Gravesend chav accent. It's the sound of a grubby hand stuffed down a pair of grimy trackies.

Cockney/esturine is appalling. Don't mind most of the other regional accents but it does depend on the speaker and the local variant.

Would it be better to listen what people are saying, rather than poo-pooing thier accents ?

Just saying like!

PS Caramel Bunny here 🙂

Tell us your accent OP and rest of you lot 🙂

being pedantic here (but i can be as my Mum's family were all from Walker and Wallsend), proper Geordies are within hoying distance of the Tyne, so all these talking of Geordie accents probably wouldn't like a real Geordie accent as much as they think - it's quite harsh. But come a few miles south to Durham and i think it's beautiful, like Geordie but with a sing-song element to it.

Southern Irish to me, knew a girl from there once whose voice was like runny honey to a sore throat. And also some scottish, but that might be from Gregory's Girl in my formative years.

Middle of the toon Geordie spoken by a thick chav with nowt but fresh air between his ears makes me feel ashamed of my homeland ..as in Geordieshore ..
A Northumberland accent is nicer especially by a fit woman rolling her rrrrs 😉
Fiery Irish women ( North & South ) ..wowsa..also like .
Don't really like west country / Brizzle type accents or Manc ..purely because they are Manc. 8)

I like most regional accents, including Mancunian, Scouse, Brummie. I think my favourites are Northumbrian and Glaswegian.
Thinking further afield, I like a Greek accent.
The only one I'm not keen on is that American accent where the women talk with a "creaky" voice, it grates on my ears after a while.

I'll just leave this here.

Caramel bunny voice...

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How is Richard Burton an accent? 😕

Caramel Bunny here

Now,[i] that [/i]is an voice I could fall in love with. [i]Sigh . . .[/i]

London accents are pleasant enough so long as the speaker isn't [i]making a point of it[/i], as it were.

Essex & estuary/London sprawl is horrible on men & women alike, that's why so many of us who grew up in these areas there have a non-specific southern accent.

Brummies are similar, you can know people for years and one day they casually drop that they're from Birmingham.

Glasgwegian and Scouse but best of all is a proper Luuundun accent.

I heard Michelle Dockery in a commercial once, and quite liked her accent.