The Worst English Language Accent

Jacob Reese Mogg's accent.

I can't listen to him for more than 30 seconds without wanting to punch the TV.
Disclaimer: It probably wouldn't bother me as much if the content was different.

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

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.

:eek:

I'm from near Nottingham (about 20 miles away) and I can tell you that in no way do they sound anything at all like Londoners.

I can't stand most southern English accents, particularly the Cockney Geezer type accent. Anywhere south of Northampton and it hurts my ears (the south west Devon/Cornwall farmer-type accent is OK).

I also dislike the Brummie accent, I think it makes people sound really dim-witted.

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Mansfield/Derby/Nottingham accents don't make people sound like rocket scientists either!

I hold my hands up! Fair point.

30 years living in Cork and I still sound like I've just finished a shift down t' pit

Whenever I go back to Derbyshire I feel as though everyone speaks like their batteries are running down! I'm just as bad, apparently.

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

Maybe it's changed in the last 30 years. I would always have thought the Nottingham and Derby accents were very similar. Not quite northern accents but certainly not southern accents.

I was from a few miles north of Derby/Nottingham, and we were much more northern sounding than the city accents. It's noticeable today though that even in the area I'm from (which used to be a mixture of farming and coal mining) there is much less of a northern sound among school children. Television and the influx of people from more southern areas probably explains this.

No, I'm not from the South, I'm from further North than you.
Dave Gedge, The Wedding Present.

Either extreme of the dublin accent bothers me. Think Brian Kerr towards one end and Luke Fitzgerald (or that other Eir Sport commentator, might be Conor Morris) on the other. There's a lot in between that's grand.
I like a lot of the Northern ones too. I'm not familiar with the full range but i know i've found the Donegal, Belfast and Derry ones quite nice in the past.
There's a certain stripe of the midlands that sets my teeth on edge at times. Think Cavan, Offaly, Laois and Louth.

Also, and i know this isn't a specific geographical accent, "Question Speak" actually hurts my brain to listen to.

D4 like, they can't like complete a sentence like, without like, every second word being "like", like. Like, drives me mad, like

blackbird98 wrote: »

D4 loike, they can't loike complete a sentence loike, without loike, every second word being "loike", loike. Loike, drives me mad, loike

fyp

Nordie, all of them.

Rufeo wrote: »

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.

There IS a distinguishable middle class Dublin accent, and it's pretty horrible. but it's neither restricted to nor prevalent in Dublin 4, many parts of which are still as down-to-earth Joe Soap as they always were.

I bet most of the people you hear are from outside D4. Many of them are even from Northside areas, or as they would say it Nwerth Soide.
Like Clontorf.
Or Hayth.

blackbird98 wrote: »

D4 like, they can't like complete a sentence like, without like, every second word being "like", like. Like, drives me mad, like

And people from Cork never do that????