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Most annoying accents in the world

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    #182
    RedemptionZ
    Registered Users Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭RedemptionZ


    Niemoj wrote: »
    I feckin' hate people who use this word wrong.

    I live in the inner city at the moment, have done for a few years. I know several hundred people either as friends or aquaintances/work colleagues all with a similar accent to McGregor, some harsher some more subtle. Therefore I know literally hundreds of people with his accent :)
    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    The late Cathal had nothing like a SOCODU accent, in fact had the typical flat drawl of Marino Fairview area,albeit poshed up a good bit.

    The drawl is the most distinct part of accents from that area with the vowels elongated as in 'peeearson' instead of person.

    If you want a lower grade SOCODU accent from around DL and Dalkey area Des Cahill is yer man, where the o letter gets driven into the u letter as in Guvverment and cuntry.

    Keelin Shanley is the expert at the clipped nasally tones of the educated SOCODU accent whilst of the top of me head Catriona Perry would epitomise the Dort accent.

    Food for thought there👍

    Well I suppose it depends where you determine South Dublin is exactly. Knockyon for example wouldn't have the dort accent but it wouldn't have a 'howiye' accent either. Ditto for Templeogue, Sandyford, Ballinteer etc. You hear many people with an accent similar to Cathal O Shannon here. Not exact, but it's close.

    I was replying to someone btw who said Cathal O Shannon had a traditional South Dublin accent, hence why I asked was he faking it.


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    #183
    Samaris
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    The Healy Rae's have an accent all to themselves and there was I thinking it was a Kerry accent.

    My Kerry partner hit levels of squeak in protesting that Healy-Rae is not indicative of how Kerry people speak. Thanks for that, morning entertainment!

    For me, hrrrm... -strong- regional accents bug me more than national accents in general. The Wexford whine being my main bugbear. But the very nasal American accent (I'm not sure which American accent is from what region) also gets up my nose.


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    #184
    blade1
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    Samaris wrote: »
    My Kerry partner hit levels of squeak in protesting that Healy-Rae is not indicative of how Kerry people speak. Thanks for that, morning entertainment!

    Why didn't you give him/her an oul bit of an oul shhhchelp?:D


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    #185
    old_aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    valoren wrote: »
    In an interview he mentions his accent.

    I remember trying to order a sandwich one day in a Subway shop. There was an old black girl behind the counter.

    Hmmmm,


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    #186
    SHOVELLER
    Registered Users Posts: 1,638 ✭✭✭SHOVELLER


    Australian accent. Awful, cringeworthy ****.


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    #187
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,042 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    A harsh Boston accent.


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    #188
    gormdubhgorm
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    LorMal wrote: »
    I don't think there is an accent particular to Dublin 4. When did all this 'D4' stuff start?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_4

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #189
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    That English accent (I thinks it's referred to as the estuary voice) essexish kind of Londony thing, it's all "Bruv" and "innit". And they all sound like English is their second language. Even in Eastenders it is sometimes hard to Hear a genuine old school cockney accent.


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    #190
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_4



    The 1990s so.


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    #191
    mohawk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,781 ✭✭✭mohawk


    Inner city Dublin accent. It's not really the accent itself it's more the terrible pronunciation that annoys me.

    I find the Cork accent contiguous. I went to college there and I now start speaking in a Cork accent when speaking to people with Cork accents.


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    #192
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Niemoj wrote: »
    I feckin' hate people who use this word wrong.

    Thanks for sharing


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    #193
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Cork.


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    #194
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,303 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    The AA roadwatch girls with their D4 wannabe put ons... Probably all from Westmeath


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    #195
    LizT
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    Someone once told me I sound like I'm from mullingar and I'm pretending to be posh so my accent must be horrible :(


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    #196
    RikkFlair
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    Posh English bloke "What's your name?"

    Cockney bloke "Smiff" (smith)

    Posh bloke (in a mocking tone) "Is that spelled with one F or two?"

    Cockney bloke "Free" :pac:


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    #197
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Nadine Coyle

    http://youtu.be/DHPxYiO9Ijw



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    #198
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    A Kiwi bloke a few years back told me the difference between Aussie and Kiwi accents but strewth Sheila, there is some New Zealand cook on TV with misplaced vowel syndrome and everything is "incridible" chops her "viggies" and "vigit-arians." So Irritee-ting!

    "Piss the rimote."


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    #199
    Dyr
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    blindside88 wrote: »
    Nigerian accent (there may be many Nigerian accents, I don't know). Jesus it drives me mad to listen to it

    It.sounds.like.evary.word.iis.a.santaance.all.togather.at.one


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    #200
    retro:electro
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    There's a girl presenting on Xpose at the minute and she has the most grating D4 accent ever. When she says "celebs" it sounds like "slobs".

    Also the Yorkshire accent is pretty grim,"a love livin in Yorkshaaa me" those two sisters on Gogglebox UK...*shudders*


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    #201
    Duck Soup
    Registered Users Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    The ugliest accent in the world has to be Brummy. It's a wonder anyone in Birmingham ever gets laid. It sounds like an entire city with a head cold.


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    #202
    Duck Soup
    Registered Users Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    Not forgetting South African. The South African accent sounds like it was designed to be spoken exclusively by military and SWAT team personnel. There's a reason you haven't seen many Seth Efrican rom-coms.


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    #203
    Galwayguy35
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    Posh Galway City accent.


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    #204
    Dr Crayfish
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    There aren't many accents I can't enjoy. I actually enjoyed how Aussie people spoke when I was down there. Same with Kiwis. I loved some of the subtle differences. Like how they'd say "crook" instead of sick.
    But yeah, Northern Irish accents of all kinds wreck my head, I freak out when BBC news turns into Newsline and scramble towards the remote before I hear the word "Newtonards".
    Posh "rarara" English accents, the way young Sloanie types would talk.
    D4. It seems to be adopted more so by women in Dublin rather than men. Am I right? I find it insufferable.


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    #205
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    irishguitarlad wrote: »
    The united states accent from the south, the southern english accent that women have from the south. The D4 accent.

    In Spanish the mexican,colombian,catalan and ceuta accents.

    I love when an italian girl speaks spanish, i dont think ive ever heard something so sexy in my life.

    Which one? Colombia has several, all very different.


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    #206
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Which one? Colombia has several, all very different.

    Why do you even care?


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    #207
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,164 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Why do you even care?

    Some of us have spent time there, know people there and can tell the difference. Imagine if you heard someone say that an Irish accent was horrible but all they'd heard was inner city Dublin and had never heard Donegal.


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    #208
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,190 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Anyone who pronounces 'Cork' as 'Koe-erk'


    A1 grummitt


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    #209
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,190 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Anyone who pronounces 'Cork' as 'Koe-erk'


    A1 grummitt


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    #210
    Means Of Escape
    Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    Northern Oreland accent

    Whee da weee da whee


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    #211
    ProudDUB
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    Do people hate the D4 accent, because it genuinely hurts their ears? Or do they dislike it because it represents a certain level of pretentiousness, of which they disapprove? Ye will probably all say you genuinely dislike it, but c'mon now, be honest. Is there not an element of reverse snobbery going on here?


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