Worst English accent?

Arpa

I mean the country that speaks English as its main language. Was listening to the rugby commentators today and realised....Welsh sounds silly...got me thinking, are we so different?

The Irish accent you hear in Hollywoood is appalling(sometimes promulgated by Irish actors)....so what about the rest?

I'm talking about New Zealand, Wales, Oz, England, Scotland, South Africa, USA, Ireland, and any I've left out. Which country sounds the funniest and is perhaps the worst gramatically? (countries with English as a primary language, not India or somewhere similar...)

Where To

English is an official language in India.

Just saying.

Rasheed

Can't stand the Australian accent. Can't even watch Home and Away.

Arpa

Where To wrote: »

English is an official language in India.

Just saying.

I mean the country that speaks English as it's main language.

tonycascarino

Nigeria

flas

They speak afrikaans or what!vever its called in south africa....

Chuck Stone

Don't know which English accent is worst but know which is best.

The Irish one.

token101

The Birmingham accent. It's ****ing horrific. If I spoke like Adrian Chiles I'd drink bleach.

pappyodaniel

Pikeys

grenache

Arpa wrote: »

I mean the country that speaks English as it's main language.

Better rule out Serf Afreeka so, it's only the 4th most spoken language there. Although its almost universally understood, even in areas that are Zulu or Afrikaans dominated.

grenache

token101 wrote: »

The Birmingham accent. It's ****ing horrific. If I spoke like Adrian Chiles I'd drink bleach.

+1

The Brummie accent sounds like someone trying to speak with their mouth full. Bloody awful. East London accent is mank too. Not fond of Glasweigian either.

im invisible

Louth

scudzilla

Scouse, it's like a cross between Mancunian and how a pig would sound if it tried talking

celtictiger32

the english accent itself is horrible they sound like whinging little @*&%^ the words get drawn out and go up and down in pitch uuuuugh

grenache

scudzilla wrote: »

Scouse, it's like a cross between Mancunian and how a pig would sound if it tried talking

Scouse accent is actually a combination of the local Lancashire dialect mixed with Irish and Scottish, largely due to the massive immigration in Liverpool from both countries, especially from Ireland. Most Irish who went there in Famine times spoke Irish as their first language and had very little if any English. You can hear the influence of the Gaelic speaking people in the modern Scouse accent.

Cookie_Monster

North Dublin

monkeysnapper

Scottish accent . ....

Well if you can call it English ...

And welsh accent .... Sounds like the persons being shook while they talk ..

tdv123

Harry Redknapp's one.

"well we were kicking the ball around"

ah fuck off

Dejvice

1. Dubliner Uni undergraduates.
2. Dubliner Uni graduates who then go to the states returning with even worse accents.
3. Country kids who go to Uni in Dublin.
4. Country kids who go to Uni in Dublin then go to the states returning with even worse accents.


Also accents where people use the word 'em....em....em.....em....em.....em.....em....em...em'.

Creasy_bear

Scouse, nothing else even comes close.

Roger_007

Dort.

sesswhat

U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A...

MarkHitide

The accent that pops into my head when a boardsie user posts 'ya' instead of 'you'.

Cookie_Monster

The southern states, Alabama - Louisiana drawl is a pretty awful one too. No matter how intelligent the person that accent makes them sound like an inbred hick with barely two brain cells to rub together.

osarusan

I remember watching a documentary on the teaching of creationism in schools in some southern US state. The teacher, himself a creationist, felt it was his duty to present both sides of the 'debate' and let his students decide for themselves.

As he explained the 'theory' of white-skinned people evolving from Africa, one of the students expressed their doubt, by pointing out that, contrasting with most Africans now, 'they'or dif'rint skeeeeee-un.'

I've never heard anything else quite so ignorant in my life, so I'll go for wherever that student was from.

Dejvice

...or 'listen mate'....'hey bud'.

summerskin

Either Birmingham, Cork, north Dublin or Coleraine accents for me. Hate the bloody lot of them. If I had one of them I'd have taken lessons to change it years ago.

bigneacy

I personally don't mind the brummie accent. Cannot stand the oz accent.

The worst tho- definitely the Louisiana/ Alabama accent.

Son0vagun

D4 accent.

mikemac1

Cajun accent, ridiculously difficult to understand

monkeysnapper wrote: »

And welsh accent .... Sounds like the persons being shook while they talk ..

Welsh accent is gorgeous!

Jordan5372

The irish accent is unbelievable, cant say one word correct. Let me give you some examples.

Three- Tree

Hammer- Hummer

van- vand

thunder- tunder

Bathroom- battroom

throat- troat

beat- bate

Davidth88

As a Southerner anything north of Watford is horrible but Brum is just horrible

Daveysil15

The Eastenders accent is awful. Or Dizzy Rascal and other British guys trying to be rappers is really annoying too.

TheTwiz

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

North Dublin

Is that "northside" accent the same as the stereotypical Crumlin, Tallaght, Clondalkin southside accents.
Those Clontarf folk and their awful northside accents

Arpa

Jordan5372 wrote: »

The irish accent is unbelievable, cant say one word correct. Let me give you some examples.

Three- Tree

Hammer- Hummer

van- vand

thunder- tunder

Bathroom- battroom

throat- troat

beat- bate

Have you seen Aoife from Axa on the TV? It's like she has made a conscious effort to omit the "th" sound from her communication. Wench.

Daveysil15

Jordan5372 wrote: »

The irish accent is unbelievable, cant say one word correct. Let me give you some examples.

Three- Tree

Hammer- Hummer

van- vand

thunder- tunder

Bathroom- battroom

throat- troat

beat- bate

They're basically all the same except for hummer, vand and bate. How is thunder pronounced differently to tunder? Or throat and troat? It's a silent h.

Sir Gallagher

Daveysil15 wrote: »

They're basically all the same except for hummer, vand and bate. How is thunder pronounced differently to tunder? Or throat and troat? It's a silent h.

Plus who even pronounces van and hameer, vand and hummer?

Arpa

Daveysil15 wrote: »

They're basically all the same except for hummer, vand and bate. How is thunder pronounced differently to tunder? Or throat and troat? It's a silent h.

They're not basically the same. It's crucial to have the "th" sound.

How is "thunder" pronounced differently to "tunder"? Are you serious? Say it aloud. The "h" is not silent.

Try "trough" and "through"...the ommission of the h changes the meaning completely.

Daveysil15

Arpa wrote: »

They're not basically the same. It's crucial to have the "th" sound.

How is "thunder" pronounced differently to "tunder"? Are you serious? Say it aloud. The "h" is not silent.

Try "trough" and "through"...the ommission of the h changes the meaning completely.

I still don't see how there's so much emphasis on the h. Thunder, tunder... when I say both of them out loud they sound the same. But maybe I just have an odd Irish accent.

Merkin

Daveysil15 wrote: »

I still don't see how there's so much emphasis on the h. Thunder, tunder... when I say both of them out loud they sound the same. But maybe I just have an odd Irish accent.

They don't sound remotely the same.What kind of accent have you?!

Toby Take a Bow

Jordan5372 wrote: »

The irish accent is unbelievable, cant say one word correct. Let me give you some examples.

Three- Tree

Hammer- Hummer

van- vand

thunder- tunder

Bathroom- battroom

throat- troat

beat- bate

There are plenty of words in 'proper' English where letters are silent. I take it you have a problem with them, too?

Also, it must be a very specific regional accent that pronounces van 'vand' and hammer 'hummer'.

Hitchens

Stephen Hawkings accent is the worst

Daveysil15

Daveysil15 wrote: »

They're basically all the same except for hummer, vand and bate. How is thunder pronounced differently to tunder? Or throat and troat? It's a silent h.

You've grown up as an English speaker and have never noticed that most English speakers outside Ireland pronounce three and tree differently?

................................Wow. Do you live in the arse end of nowhere with no TV or radio?

Daveysil15

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

There are plenty of words in 'proper' English where letters are silent. I take it you have a problem with them, too?

Also, it must be a very specific regional accent that pronounces van 'vand' and hammer 'hummer'.

Exactly, I have never heard those pronounciations anywhere. How is three pronounced differently to tree or 3?

Now I understand the "bate" one. A lot of Irish say that. "I'll bate ya" :pac:

But I just don't get the over emphasis on the h. It reminds me of that episode of Family Guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTvHTxHX-Y

looksee

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Exactly, I have never heard those pronounciations anywhere. How is three pronounced differently to tree or 3?

Now I understand the "bate" one. A lot of Irish say that. "I'll bate ya" :pac:

But I just don't get the over emphasis on the h. It reminds me of that episode of Family Guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTvHTxHX-Y

Its not the same issue! I think we may be getting near to solving one of the mysteries (and sources of amusement) of a certain forum which shall not be named.

Reekwind

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Exactly, I have never heard those pronounciations anywhere. How is three pronounced differently to tree or 3?

In England/Ingerland, yes, they do pronounce the 'th' in 'three'. In the south of the country at least. Same with thug/tug or the unfortunate third/turd

But then this is more a matter of dialect than accent. Irish people generally do not pronounce 'th' because it's not a feature of Gaeilge. Slating someone for being a product of this, and failing to adhere to supposedly 'correct' forms of English, is a bad case of cultural cringe

It's also nonsense when you listen to how actual English people speak. My pet hate is not Scouse or Brummie English (which are at least strong regional accents) but the whiny 'outer London' English that so prevalent in the south-east. Does anyone suggest that we should start using 'fing' or 'wiv'?

Jordan5372

I am from England, therefore pronounce my words correctly. There is no way Thunder and tunder sound the same, infact not even close.

If you could pronounce your 'th properly then you would see.

Legs.Eleven

The really posh, Southern English one spoken among young people where all the sentences sound like a question. Drives me nutty.

That's the only one. The nicest is the Northern Irish one, the stronger the better.

Jordan5372

There is a guy i work with who is Irish and he is prolongs his words, more than i have ever heard anyone before.

"but can this not worrrrrrrrrrrk, whhhhhhyyyyy?" makes me so mad.

Legs.Eleven

Jordan5372 wrote: »

I am from England, therefore pronounce my words correctly. There is no way Thunder and tunder sound the same, infact not even close.

If you could pronounce your 'th properly then you would see.

Haha! Rubbish.

Daveysil15

Jordan5372 wrote: »

I am from England, therefore pronounce my words correctly. There is no way Thunder and tunder sound the same, infact not even close.

If you could pronounce your 'th properly then you would see.

And yet a lot of English people don't pronounce the h at all in some words. Listen to them when they're going abroad. "We're goin on oliday." Or "I've lost my at" (supposed to be hat).

I'm not having a go at the British but I've always thought the Irish pronounced their words better.