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Best/worst accent

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,061 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    You know rightly want it means, you are just parading your faux ignorance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭supernova5


    I just knew poor Ursula would get dragged into this again



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,992 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    worst : the proper London cockney one… not the typical east end accent but the actual proper London cockney one…like you’d often hear down the Isle of Dogs, Hackney, Bow and those places.

    best : accents of the Quebec region of Canada. The accent and their sayings….. it’s a weird hybrid American / French accent. Girls sound very sexy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭hurlaway


    Joanne mc nally apparently she a comedian



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,517 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Best accent the Australian just could listen to it all day and worst Dublin inner city accent it's horrible 😫 now as a south Dubliner it's an alright accent



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  • Posts: 701 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I never said I didn't. I do, because I have an interest in the topic, but obviously many others don't. The "faux" ones are those who pretend everyone knows what, not just "received pronunciation" (received from/by whom? Why not mention the language/geography? Why is it so vague?) means, but "RP".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭blindsider


    @Frost Spice Because that's what it's called - officially. Received Pronunciation is quite well-known e.g. if you studied a TEFL course (Teach English As a Foreign Language) you would have learned about it, and if you studied a European language beyond Leaving Cert, you'd learn about Castilian Spanish, Tuscan Italian or Hochdeutsch.

    Of course, failing that, you could just Google "RP"….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,079 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Worst accents:

    Inner city Dub scanger accent.

    Healy-Rae exaggerated Kirry accent.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,172 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Limerick accent is the worst. I remember hearing Dolores O'Riordan talk on an MTV show, up until that point I thought she was kind of pretty, she started talking in a vaguely suggestive way and I got a little sick in my mouth.

    Truth is any strong accent is generally not very nice.



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