What's the worst accent?

WoollyRedHat

Dubstep.

Maldesu

The Letterkenny accent has gotten worse in the last few years. I've no idea how visitors understand what is being said.

Seannew1

CJC999 wrote: »

Louth is the worst bigger drawl there is by a long shot.QUOTE] Which one,Dundaaaaawk or Draaaaaawda?

Solair

I wouldn't generalise about Dublin and Cork accents but there are two that do my head in:

Dublin - The particular variety that leads to a completely flat accent that sounds like they don't even bother to use their mouths.
Cork - There's a whiney accent that is in certain suburban parts of Cork City that would actually curdle milk.

That being said, there are also very pleasant Cork and Dublin accents.

preddy

Belfast - Could anyone understand Paddy Barnes?

Solair

preddy wrote: »

Belfast - Could anyone understand Paddy Barnes?

Yeah, I would have to say that Belfast and Glasgow are the only places I've ever gone in the Ireland and Britain where I was ABSOLUTELY unable to understand people. They might as well have been speaking Dutch.

WumBuster

All strong accents are annoying. Elocution should be compulsory in all schools in this country

KenSwee

bambera wrote: »

Dublin teenagers who have a weird fake american accent

Close Thread.
Just joking.
The Canadian accent sometimes gets on my nerves but only when they say certain words. With the huge amount of Canadian actors on TV now, it's worse than ever. They love to "uut" instead of out and so on.

HalloweenJack

The two Dub extremes are the worst, along with the Cork and Drogheda ones.

Australian accent can be fairly annoying, also.

marnie d

Maldesu wrote: »

The Letterkenny accent has gotten worse in the last few years. I've no idea how visitors understand what is being said.

Nothing wrong with the LK accent! Of course visitors have no bother at all understanding everything.

lubie76

Donegal and Derry...yuk!

marshbaboon

Grayson wrote: »

Inner city dublin (although let's face it, it's all across dublin now), D4, Cork, Strong midlands (especially Cavan), Cork again.

Anyone remember that vodafone advert where the girl answers the phone to the guy with the cork accent and hangs up? i can't find it anywhere.

You mean the esat one?

Pensivepuca

Belfast accent wrecks my head every time I hear it! I am from Derry and hate the accent too, but if its a weak accent its not too bad. Caaaaaavan gets on my nerves too.

retalivity

My accent is the worst accent.

orignally from donegal, but having lived in Asia and North America over the past 3 years, i've had to slow down and enunciate everything so people could understand me. I didn't realise any difference (although my parents mentioned it last xmas), until I heard a recording of myself on the phone last week. I sound like graeme mcdowell after his balls dropped.

I hate myself.

Lawrence1895

Bavaria and Berlin

Grayson

marshbaboon wrote: »

You mean the esat one?

That's it.

_coinin_

I never liked Wexford accents. I don't mind any other accents though.

PearlLedbetter

The Welsh accent is appalling.

Pumpkinseeds

The worst accent has to be the 'skanger/scumbag Limerick' accent, not the ordinary Limerick accent. You know the one I mean, 'Anthony come here, I want you' is pronounced as 'Ant'ny c'mere I want choux' also the use of the terms gowl, you handicap, bud and sham. Basically I have a pathological hatred of the Limerick skanger/scumbag, not Limerick people.

Lawrence1895

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

The worst accent has to be the 'skanger/scumbag Limerick' accent, not the ordinary Limerick accent. You know the one I mean, 'Anthony come here, I want you' is pronounced as 'Ant'ny c'mere I want choux' also the use of the terms gowl, you handicap, bud and sham. Basically I have a pathological hatred of the Limerick skanger/scumbag, not Limerick people.

I heard the 'Ant'ny c'mere' part in Dublin as well. Maybe it was somebody who moved over from Limerick

Red Star Bellend

Wexford accent is horrendous and very hard to understand.

Drogheda accent is shocking too. "Maaaahs baaaah"

Lawrence1895

Don't know, if that's typical for a certain reason, but that 'yeez', when you address two or more others is just horrible :mad:

Rasheed

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Mullingar. An accent that makes even non pikeys sound like born and raised pikeys.

This by a country mile. Every man, woman and child from here sounds like a gypsy.

fasttalkerchat

Rasheed wrote: »

This by a country mile. Every man, woman and child from here sounds like a gypsy.

My granny is from Mullingar and has a southern accent but its nothing like the accent you hear in Mullingar now! Its more like a Meath accent.

Heroditas

The flah Wicklah accent is pretty grim

blingrhino

Cork , Kerry or anywhere outside the pale

Ziegfeldgirl27

Any accent from the north and I include my own in this. But mostly Belfast ones.

Second is the fake American accents most young ones have adapted these days.

MaroonAndGreen

Cork/Kerry

Ted!

Boston women.

1ZRed

Newcastle/Geordie BY FAR!!

They reduce me to angry tears!