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The Worst English Language Accent

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    #32
    Lewis_Benson
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    The inner city north Dublin skanger accest.


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    #33
    endacl
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    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.


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    #34
    gmisk
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    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


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    #35
    Holly13
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    Agree with Drogheda and Dundalk.
    Cavan is pretty bad also.


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    #36
    Carry
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    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?


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    #37
    dd973
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    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.


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    #38
    dxhound2005
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    Holly13 wrote: »
    Agree with Drogheda and Dundalk.
    Cavan is pretty bad also.

    Who said Dundalk?


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    #39
    ChikiChiki
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    Traveller accents are shocking. Can I say that? I suppose I can because they have their status.


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    #40
    Snickers Man
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    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.


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    171170
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    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.


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    #42
    [Deleted User]
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    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:


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    #43
    dxhound2005
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm not sure that's a compliment. :pac:

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


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    #44
    sabat
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    David Norris is Congolese...


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    Snickers Man
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    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.


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    #46
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    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:


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    #47
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    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.


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    #48
    whisky_galore
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    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.


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    #49
    con___manx1
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    [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.


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    #50
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    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?


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    #51
    SharpshooterTom
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    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.


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    Carry wrote: »
    Oh, and Kerry. It sounds as if they never bother to open their mouths properly. It'sh all so very Wesht and parish.

    Oh dear, a ham-fisted attempt at delineating local accents. Heinrich Boll you are not.


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    #53
    RhubarbCrumble
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    Essex. Like nails down a blackboard.


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    #54
    bodhrandude
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    Maybe the Bray accent, its like a culchie Dublin accent, although I don't mind Tommy Teirnan's. Funniest I thought was in the film Hackney's Finest, the Jamaican Welsh accent. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #55
    FanadMan
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    gooch2k9 wrote: »
    Which Northern Irish accent?
    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    Donegal

    Are you for real? Or are you still doing primary school geography?

    For me it would have to be the skanger Dub accent




    or

    the thick mountain Kerry accent



    I love a lot of the northern English accents - Brummie/Dudleeeee/Geordie. Always think they sound so musical.


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    Arghus
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    I'm not really a fan of the Australian accent and I'm not gone on the New Zealand either, though it's a bit easier to bear.

    The Brummie accent gets a lot of hate. I love the sound of it.


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    #57
    Das Reich
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    The English from England is the hardest to understand but the English from USA is the ugliest. And the strange thing is that difference between English accents are very small from one to another despite the distance between the countries. Spanish instead is so different from lets say Mexico and Cuba, I can recognize where they are from with only one word. In Italy is even worse, very small country where the accent change totally from a city to another sometimes becoming non intelligible.


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    Rufeo
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    You mean like engaging in some of the greatest horseplay of all time?

    With a horsey woman.


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    Rufeo
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    Snickers Man wrote: »
    No such thing as a D4 accent.

    I live in Ballsbridge and hear it all the time. Well there's some sort of accent here anyway. I'll tell you, they don't sound like anything else in dublin.


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    Das Reich wrote: »
    .......And the strange thing is that difference between English accents are very small from one to another despite the distance between the countries......

    There’s huge differences between London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Bristol accents.

    Dunno how far up the M1 (or over the M4) you have to go to start seeing the change in accent though. Nottingham would be similar to London with a slight twang.

    Meant Northampton not Nottingham. I always get them mixed up.


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    cj maxx
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    Australian accents just annoy me me for some reason
    Other notables are Galway , Boston and D4


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