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The Worst English Language Accent

  • 25-11-2019 10:55PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    ...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?


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  • #2
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Cork.


  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


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


  • #4
    Salary Negotiator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What’s the dumbest accent?

    Answer - The OPs

    Sorry OP xxxx


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Salary Negotiator wrote: »
    I’m sure the OP meant English language accent and isn’t just trolling.

    Precisely.


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  • #7
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    The hyundai English language accent.


  • #8
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,311 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #9
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭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?


  • #10
    Bobby Baccala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭Bobby Baccala


    Drogheda


  • #11
    gooch2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭gooch2k9


    Which Northern Irish accent?


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  • #12
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Liverpudlian and South African.


  • #13
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,961 ✭✭✭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.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gooch2k9 wrote: »
    Which Northern Irish accent?

    They're almost as equally bad as each other.


  • #15
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,547 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    gooch2k9 wrote: »
    Which Northern Irish accent?
    Exactly there is a huge variation.

    I vote for ballymena.


  • #16
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    gooch2k9 wrote: »
    Which Northern Irish accent?

    Donegal


  • #17
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,961 ✭✭✭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.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #18
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #20
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,418 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #21
    mgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭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,


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  • #22
    Dufflecoat Fanny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Dufflecoat Fanny


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


  • #23
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,307 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Berserker wrote: »
    Dublin is the worst in Ireland from that perspective.

    Which Dublin accent? There must be about 50.


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #25
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #26
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭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?


  • #27
    realitykeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


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


  • #28
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


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

    In Ireland the Derry accent is irritable.


  • #29
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Deleted User wrote: »
    For you, what is the worst English accent - whether native or foreign?

    Foreign.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Birmingham. 100%. Can't stand it.


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