What's the worst accent?

Elliemental

Good to see us Scousers are still grating on nerves of the world, with our gargling, nasal tones.

pablo_escobar

annoying accent? people seem easily annoyed over nothing, how traumatising it must be for some to focus on the sound of persons voice instead of what they're saying... good god.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Co.Louth accents in general are awful.

Cork accent on a girl is dead cute.

Some working class Dublin accents are pretty dreadful. I grew up in Ballymun and even I have a problem understanding some of my relatives when they get going.

But worse of all, the very baddest of the bad - D4 Dort accents.

PeterIanStaker

I'm originally from the wesht, a displaced Galwegian to be more accurate, and when I went back to college - UCD - to upskill in this little recession thingy, I was sure the place was full of Americans from both the loudness and the sheer vacuous - ness of the conversation.

Turns out they're D4's of course but I think some of them are more American than the Americans. Loike:rolleyes:

borderlinemeath

SARASON wrote: »

Isnt the girl out of pure mule or the programme about the restraunt from up there. I love her accent. All she would have to do for me is sit on the bed and keep talkin.;)

She's from south Monaghan. Near Iniskeen I think.
Big difference between the south Monaghan and North Monaghan accents (to me anyway) The Carrickmacross accent is so much easier on the ear than the Monaghan Town accent.

I'm a blow in to Drogheda, living just outside it for about 5yrs now. From a Dubliner looking in the "drawwda" accent is akin to the inner city Dublin "howiya" accent.
The "drawwda" accent seems to be spoken by the "townies" who have lived there all their lives and barely leave the place. To most of them it's a big deal to go to Dublin on the bus. They literally pack their passports.

I know a good few people from Drogheda and the outskirts (Clogherhead, Termonfeckin) who were born there but don't have the inbred accent.

JerryHandbag

Liverpool accent. Eg Sporty Spice. Get me a ****ing shotgun.

RhubarbCrumble

The English accent in general - hate it

The D4 accent - Get over yourself

The Limerick city "wa" accent - "Love, mere I wancha!"

CHealy

dannym08 wrote: »

i have a deep seated hatred of deep kerry and cork accents, I mean jesus like how could you not hate this

You'd want to do some research if you think Cork people talk like this. Maybe down in the deep deep West but this really couldnt be further away from lets say some of the city accents.

WesternZulu

9 pages in and not a mention of the whest

It really is music on the ears.

LizT

Deleted User wrote: »

Definitely the Dublin accent. Also the Midlands (?) one. I was shocked when I watched an episode Pure Mule.

Oh yeah, because Pure Mule is so representative of the Midlands. I live in Tullamore and there are at least 5 different types of accents, all typical to the area. Some are worse than others though.

brummytom

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

The English accent in general - hate it

Erm.. which one?

AckwelFoley

brummytom wrote: »

Erm.. which one?

Your one :pac:

The_Joker.

It has to be the annoying people from 'down the country' , the way they go on,

I seen' yer wan' last night at the barn
We were having the craic with the lads after mass
Ah sure ,lets have a few cans and watch the sunday game on rte(as we only have rte 1 and 2 on our tele)

GTE

Rachel Allen.

KillerKity

The Drogheda accent makes me want to puke

Cormac2791

Cork

homerjay2005

most embarrassing - louth, christ its awful.

but by far, the worst accent in this country is the D4 fake, fraud, up your bottom, snobbish, annoying and punch worthy accent.


to hear people not from the region speak like it then is just appaling, i know 2 girls from cork who have the accent and its just downright wrong. seems a huge part of office life in dublin is based on this horrible trend.

fergiesfolly

Try being from Galway. Blandest accent of all time. Someone once described it as mid-atlantic and that makes it sound like you're from nowhere in particular at all. Its the cotton wool of accents. I'd kill for a bit of Drogheda twang sometimes.

Leroy Lita

Wicklow accent and the Limerick city accent

Dudess

brummytom wrote: »

Brummy accent. I've had people laugh in my face before purely because of my accent.

Not good

I was briefly seeing a guy from Birmingham years ago - "It's rynin' atsoide" is not a sexy way of saying "It's raining outside"... :pac:

okioffice84

Without a doubt its the Dublin skanger. Makes my skin crawl...

Mr. Presentable

Irish? Cork makes me want to punch baby jesus

All? Geordie makes me want to give that Cole/Tweedy bint the fist. And not in a good "Vegas" way.

guybague

Carwk

Truley

What do people think of the Sligo accent?

christ on a bike!

Truley wrote: »

What do people think of the Sligo accent?

I can't actually differntiate between any of the accents in the west, and I'm from there. So yeah, Sligo accents rawks :cool: (mayo better though :pac:)

Truley

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I can't actually differntiate between any of the accents in the west, and I'm from there. So yeah, Sligo accents rawks :cool: (mayo better though :pac:)

Yeah actually really like the Mayo accent but I doubt anyone from outside the North West could actually say what a Mayo accent is :pac:

Dudess

nipplenuts wrote: »

Irish? Cork makes me want to punch baby jesus

I personally think it sounds more funny and ridiculous and silly rather than offensive.

All? Geordie makes me want to give that Cole/Tweedy bint the fist. And not in a good "Vegas" way.

I quite like that accent actually - I'm one of very few though.

Melange

Surprisingly little mention of the Waterford city accent.

Wellllll booooooyyy....

tolosenc

Most if not all accents indigenous to Ireland...

christ on a bike!

tolosenc wrote: »

Most if not all accents indigenous to Ireland...

Most people (abroad) love the Irish accent. But there's no accounting for taste...