Accents You Love or Hate

[Milo]

Leicester accent being fvcking awful gets my vote as well. 
 

 

Can’t take anything said in a Welsh accent seriously, either. 
 

 

[Foxdiamond]

8 minutes ago, bovril said:

North Suffolk sounds like a softer Norfolk to me. When you get towards Ipswich the estuary influence gets stronger, especially amongst younger generations. Cambridgeshire has a similar split. 'The Dig' is a nice film with good Suffolk accents. 

 

I think one of the reasons the East Anglian accent is so unknown is because nobody famous really has one. Martin Brundle, Bernie Ecclestone and Sean Harris have a twang but it comes and goes. Harris probably has the strongest. The only person I know who really has a Norfolk accent on TV is Chris Sutton and that's a very nice, more old school Norfolk accent.

Cheers bovril  I've seen The Dig so can recall that. Shame Nelson was too early to record eh. Now he was famous. Many years ago I worked with a lady from Norfolk. 

[Foxdiamond]

Not many votes for Welsh here. Lots of good singers though 

[CheeseHead]

Limerick accent. Could've listened to Dolores O'Riordan all day long

[SemperEadem]

North Nottinghamshire is another stinker.

 

Love ours

[HighPeakFox]

I saw Bill Bailey live recently, and he reiterated that he had lost his West Country accent because (and I quote) 'I wanted to get on in life'.

[Unabomber]

Like Leicester and New York dislike all others 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Welsh accent is really varied, it always makes me laugh when you go on holiday and the young lad selling you an ice cream or whatever sounds like Windsor Davis.

 

Went out with a girl from South Yorkshire and her voice ended up really doing my head in.

 

Where's Aisling Bea from? Kildare, apparently. I like her voice, although I don't know if that's the accent or just because she's the sort of cheeky cow I fancy

 

[boots60]

I like the Belfast accent, so I do.

[SkidsFox]

14 minutes ago, boots60 said:

I like the Belfast accent, so I do.

And the Ulsterman...?

 

[Raj]

Loathe any west Midland based accent.

Like the Aussie n Irish as they sound very friendly!!!

[Chiltern Fox]

A slight twist on this... Americans seem to love the British accent. Back in the day when I was single, I was drowning in it when I was over. 

[HybridFox]

2 hours ago, Chiltern Fox said:

A slight twist on this... Americans seem to love the British accent. Back in the day when I was single, I was drowning in it when I was over. 

They they hear something like Scouse and say you haven't got a British accent 

[ozleicester]

Edited 11 June 2022 by ozleicester

[Tuna]

Kerry and Cork accents are fantastic!

[The Year Of The Fox]

Wherever The Corrs are from 

 

 

[The Year Of The Fox]

I got messaging a fit bird who’d moved locally to me who initially asked me to look at her shower. 
 

She ‘escalated’ it to WhatsApp voice notes talking about more than shower things a couple of days before I was going to go over. I didn’t know she was Scouse 🤢

Blocked her and never did her shower either 😂

[Kinowe Soorie]

Gorrah luv the Lestah accent ent ya? Anyway, gis a croggeh!

[Charl91]

Dislike a Tory accent.

[Sly]

I quite like the Welsh and Southern Ireland. 
 

I dislike Liverpool, West Midlands and Scottish. 

[Foxdiamond]

Can you tell Canadian accent from Northern States US? I notice they say about like aboot but I struggle mostly. 

[Silebyfox_89]

Scouse and Brummy are the worst.

 

Do like a soft Irish, Geordie and Scottish accent.

[Stadt]

Some accents are good gender dependent. Manc is awful on women but alright on men whereas female West Country accents are great.

 

I hate dislike northern accents a lot of middle class students have, they always have an a slight American upwards inflection and it goes right through me. 100% they go on Reddit.

 

The Leicester & Leicestershire accents depends on how well spoken the speaker is, a moderately well spoken Leicestershire accent is great imo, it’s regional without being overbearing.

 

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

3 hours ago, Kinowe Soorie said:

Gorrah luv the Lestah accent ent ya? Anyway, gis a croggeh!

I think you have demonstrated what I believe. Leicester doesn't have a accent at all, it is more a case of how we say words and/or how we adapt them. It is not so much the way we speak or the rhythm and tonality, it is more slang based.

Noworramean?

[surrifox]

Not a popular one but the New Zealand accent really grates on me . I can’t cope with the mangling of vowels .

 

I have a work colleague who introduces himself as Bin Spintzah