The Worst English Language Accent

...for me, I'm sorry to say, it's Northern Ireland.

Perhaps there are many from there on here, but I find utterly linguistically pathogenic.

I cringe when I hear it, whether mild or severe.

It's truly awful; if an accent could have a disease, Northern Ireland would be on pills right now.

For you, what is the worst English accent - whether native or foreign?

Your Face

Cork.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

How is the Northern Irish accent an English accent?
Geography says otherwise..

Salary Negotiator

Winston Young Ignoramus wrote: »

How is the Northern Irish accent an English accent?
Geography says otherwise..

I’m sure the OP meant English language accent and isn’t just trolling.

What’s the dumbest accent?

Answer - The OPs

Sorry OP xxxx

Salary Negotiator

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

I’m sure the OP meant English language accent and isn’t just trolling.

Precisely.

BDI

The hyundai English language accent.

Thelonious Monk

I find all accents interesting but probably the D4 one irks me the most, prob due to my dislike of some of the things it's associated with

Berserker

Your Face wrote: »

Cork.

Nope, much sought for call centres. Very melodic, apparently. Dublin is the worst in Ireland from that perspective. Geordie is the best in the UK. Scouse is the worst.

Srameen wrote: »

How is the Northern Irish accent an English accent?
Geography says otherwise..

Are you for real?

Bobby Baccala

Drogheda

gooch2k9

Which Northern Irish accent?

Seamai

Liverpudlian and South African.

Working class heroes

Berserker wrote: »

Nope, much sought for call centres. Very melodic, apparently. Dublin is the worst in Ireland from that perspective. Geordie is the best in the UK. Scouse is the worst.



Are you for real?

Are you? Is this another one of your troll tag team efforts?

Must. Bite. Lip.

gooch2k9

gooch2k9 wrote: »

Which Northern Irish accent?

They're almost as equally bad as each other.

gmisk

gooch2k9 wrote: »

Which Northern Irish accent?

Exactly there is a huge variation.

I vote for ballymena.

Quantum Erasure

gooch2k9 wrote: »

Which Northern Irish accent?

Donegal

Working class heroes

Deleted User wrote: »

They're almost as equally bad as each other.

Well you’ll be happy when you lot are rid of them, won’t ya.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Berserker wrote: »

Nope, much sought for call centres. Very melodic, apparently. Dublin is the worst in Ireland from that perspective. Geordie is the best in the UK. Scouse is the worst.



Are you for real?

OP has been edited since. So, yeah. Very real.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

gmisk wrote: »

Exactly there is a huge variation.

I vote for ballymena.

Strabane. But it's questionable if it's even English they're speaking.

iamwhoiam

Berserker wrote: »

Nope, much sought for call centres. Very melodic, apparently. Dublin is the worst in Ireland from that perspective. Geordie is the best in the UK. Scouse is the worst.



Are you for real?

Which Dublin accent ? Then there are huge differences in accents in Dublin

mgn

Worked with a lot of people from both here and the UK, but one accent i could never understand was the Co Antrim one,

Dufflecoat Fanny

Birmingham, D4, Valley girl California and traveller accents boil my piss

Pherekydes

Berserker wrote: »

Dublin is the worst in Ireland from that perspective.

Which Dublin accent? There must be about 50.

The Dudley accent must be the ugliest on earth. It makes the stereotypical Brummie accent sound cultured and musical in comparison. Some North London accents and the flat type of Dublin accent are hard on the ears too.

I find most Australian accents irritating, and there's a particular Donegal/Scots accent that is very harsh, very grating as are some NI accents.

Oink

I once heard a cleaner on the other side of the office speaking Chinese.
She came closer, I turned around. She was clearly Irish. Then I recognised some English words. The elongated vowels were unreal. I desperately wanted to say something, but what?

BDI

Oink wrote: »

I once heard a cleaner on the other side of the office speaking Chinese.
She came closer, I turned around. She was clearly Irish. Then I recognised some English words. The elongated vowels were unreal. I desperately wanted to say something, but what?

You missed a spot?

realitykeeper

The common Dublin accent. The upper class Dublin accent is not much better, that is just pretensions.

SharpshooterTom

Brummie/Black country accents. Scouse accents when they sound as if they are spitting.

In Ireland the Derry accent is irritable.

dxhound2005

Deleted User wrote: »

For you, what is the worst English accent - whether native or foreign?

Foreign.

Ballymena is a very difficult accent to understand. They talk under their breath.

Birmingham. 100%. Can't stand it.

Lewis_Benson

The inner city north Dublin skanger accest.

endacl

Bobby Baccala wrote: »

Drogheda

Take the ugliest parts of the Dublin accent, add the ugliest part of the Belfast accent. Place the result in an unfortunate town situated between the two, and speak it through the nose.

The Drogheda accent.

gmisk

mgn wrote: »

Worked with a lot of people from both here and the UK, but one accent i could never understand was the Co Antrim one,

There is massive variance in the country antrim accent even

Holly13

Agree with Drogheda and Dundalk.
Cavan is pretty bad also.

Carry

From a non-native English speaker's point of view I found the Belfast accent lovely, when I moved there. It has a wonderfully whining quality with a touch of cheekiness. I didn't like the Derry accent though, to harsh and a tad aggressive.

My favourite English accent in Ireland is the Corkonian one. As someone already said, very musical with a touch of innocence, yet always challenging. Yeah, I know...
(It might have something to do with the not inconsiderable fact that the love of my life (in Ireland) was from Cork. )

I dislike any Dublin accent because I never figured out which perceived accent they prefer.
Oh, and Kerry. It sounds as if they never bother to open their mouths properly. It'sh all so very Wesht and parishy.

The most despicable English English accent is the posh English spoken by mostly despicable and arrogant people. It's a quite slappable accent.

Lazy and drawling American accents that seem to eat up every second syllable and give the impression that the speaker is too dim to have any amount of vocabulary.

Oh, and Australian. Do they even speak English?

dd973

I really like the posh Scottish Kirsty Wark style accent, very pleasant.

That London/South East of England accent which isn't Cockney but just bland, nerdy and tedious to listen to is my least favourite.

dxhound2005

Holly13 wrote: »

Agree with Drogheda and Dundalk.
Cavan is pretty bad also.

Who said Dundalk?

ChikiChiki

Traveller accents are shocking. Can I say that? I suppose I can because they have their status.

Snickers Man

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I find all accents interesting but probably the D4 one irks me the most, prob due to my dislike of some of the things it's associated with

No such thing as a D4 accent.

171170

Carry wrote: »

The most despicable English English accent is the posh English spoken by mostly despicable and arrogant people. It's a quite slappable accent.

e.gs. Shane Ross and David Norris. I concur.

Carry

Carry wrote: »

From a non-native English speaker's point of view I found the Belfast accent lovely, when I moved there. It has a wonderfully whining quality with a touch of cheekiness. I didn't like the Derry accent though, to harsh and a tad aggressive.

I'm not sure that's a compliment. :pac:

dxhound2005

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm not sure that's a compliment. :pac:

It's more of a compliment than calling it a disease.

sabat

David Norris is Congolese...

Snickers Man

171170 wrote: »

e.gs. Shane Ross and David Norris. I concur.

Actually both of them have recognisably Irish accents. They're a variation on the English public school upper crust accent but definitely Irish. Especially Norris.

The difference is in the soft "t" sounds, especially at the end of a word. In an upper class English English accent they are very clipped; the Irish version is more sibilant. Listen to Norris carefully and you'll see (hear) the difference.

Snickers Man

Snickers Man wrote: »

Actually both of them have recognisably Irish accents. They're a variation on the English public school upper crust accent but definitely Irish. Especially Norris.

The difference is in the soft "t" sounds, especially at the end of a word. In an upper class English English accent they are very clipped; the Irish version is more sibilant. Listen to Norris carefully and you'll see (hear) the difference.

When I started this thread, I wasn't quite anticipating this. :eek:

171170

171170 wrote: »

e.gs. Shane Ross and David Norris. I concur.

As an English person I can tell you that neither of them has an English accent. They have very recognisably Irish accents to an English person.

whisky_galore

Dublin Skangerese, nails on blackboard whine.

Some, not all, Nordie accents. Posh Nordie is all right, so called working class Nordie not so much. Barely intelligible, next door to Glaswegian.

Kerry accents, the thick as bog muck ones that appear to be put on, like a bachelor farmer from the 50s who lives down the end of a long passage with grass growing in the middle, Healy Raes and Daithi.
Danny HR sounds like a tractor attempting to start on a frosty morning.

con___manx1

[Deleted User] wrote: »

...for me, I'm sorry to say, it's Northern Ireland.

Perhaps there are many from there on here, but I find utterly linguistically pathogenic.

I cringe when I hear it, whether mild or severe.

It's truly awful; if an accent could have a disease, Northern Ireland would be on pills right now.

For you, what is the worst English accent - whether native or foreign?

I actually like the northern accent. The Swansea accent is the worst iv heard.

Omackeral

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

the D4 one irks me the most, prob due to my dislike of some of the things it's associated with

You mean like engaging in some of the greatest horseplay of all time?

SharpshooterTom

Candie wrote: »

As an English person I can tell you that neither of them has an English accent. They have very recognisably Irish accents to an English person.

I've heard some people try to pass off Declan Ganley as having an Irish accent, but he just sounds English to me.