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What's the worst accent?

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  • #212
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    Go to the Croke Park area now and listen to an angry Louth accent..


  • #213
    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    I really can't stand most Dublin accents. I think that's about it.

    I feel my Cork accent has gotten stronger over the past few years. No idea why. I don't know whether to be happy or sad over it.


  • #214
    jackthelad321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭jackthelad321


    All accents can be a bit annoying, it usually depends on who's talking. outside the usual Ireland ones, (I thought Limerick, my land, was in for a kicking here, not terriby popular) I'd go for Australian, especialy when it's high pitched, any American accent, and to be honest any extreme accent, I prefer neutral ones. even a Scots accent will annoy me after a while, depite it being nice at first. Same for Donegal, Belfast etc.

    The only accent that has never irritated me is probably the Welsh.


  • #215
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    The (I believe) Northern correspondent in RTÉ news. I'd say he invented a new county today, he talked about Meath and somewhere else... :confused:


  • #216
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    The Wicklow town accent. It's so whingy and moany.

    And I hate they way they call their parents mammy and daddy like they are six year olds. Whingy moany six year olds.


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  • #217
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    Louth is pretty bad. I worked with 2 girls from up around there and their accents used to cut right through me.


  • #218
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Censorsh!t wrote: »
    I really can't stand most Dublin accents. I think that's about it.

    I feel my Cork accent has gotten stronger over the past few years. No idea why. I don't know whether to be happy or sad over it.

    you should be sad about it


  • #219
    redstar6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭redstar6


    Cork, Kerry, Wexford, Waterford, Fundalk, Drogheda, Skanger Dub, D4 Dub. WTF is wrong with a CAVAAAAAAAAAAAN accent?


  • #220
    Benny Lava
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Benny Lava


    Barna77 wrote: »
    The (I believe) Northern correspondent in RTÉ news. I'd say he invented a new county today, he talked about Meath and somewhere else... :confused:

    It wouldn't have been Lieth, would it?


  • #221
    RoRoCullen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭RoRoCullen


    Dudess wrote: »
    D4 - every time I hear it, I die a little inside.

    ditto.


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  • #222
    RoRoCullen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭RoRoCullen


    Belfast. Cork. D4 'accent'.


  • #223
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    An easier question might be:
    What is the least annoying accent?

    I would say any of the ones from the west of Ireland Galway/Mayo/Sligo

    Of course a new thread would be a better place to ask...


  • #224
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,156 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    You folks need to, like, totally, get out more - y'know, go to LA and meet a Valley Girl, OK? Bitchen, I am Sure!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHf089jl9H4

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #225
    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    you should be sad about it

    awww, ok:(:(


  • #226
    Tiny Explosions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Tiny Explosions


    I find the white south African accent fairly irritating.


  • #227
    Melange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 287 ✭✭Melange


    Tiny Explosions wrote: »
    I find the white south African accent fairly irritating.

    Couldn't resist posting this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLMKUXZ3hk


  • #228
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    100% cork accent, as tommy tiernan once quoted, " like a tinker talkin french"


  • #229
    Lloyd Xmas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭Lloyd Xmas


    One of the most vomit inducing experiences is listening to the D4 accent... when some fool is adding in an artificial lisp for extended honourary gayness.

    Conor Lenihan does this and I think Miriam O'Callaghan may be prone to the odd bit too. But there's thousands of young Sssthaoirses and Ssssthorcas that are studying hard for Masters Degrees in this Boll*xology.


  • #230
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    anything north, west or south of the pale M50
    Except Sligo, my wife's from there.


  • #231
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    seriously though, i suppose i'd have to go with inner city cork.. only hard to understand cause you're running away from him before he stabs you!


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  • #232
    pdempz
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    dublin by far has to be the worst..... bores a hole in my head every time i hear it!!!


  • #233
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    pdempz wrote: »
    dublin by far has to be the worst..... bores a hole in my head every time i hear it!!!

    d4, inner city, old dub, malahide?


  • #234
    baltimore sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    London, by far and away the worst accent in the world.

    Adding the letter R to words without them and adding the letter W too.
    Everytime I get an phonecall from London I try and get the conversation over as quickly as possible.

    Other English accents are ok though, Cornwall is especially funny

    I like most Irish accents though, 'cept Drogheda, that's just nasty


  • #235
    celticbest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭celticbest


    100% Cork.........Full Stop...


  • #236
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,208 ✭✭✭✭briany


    I had a classmate in college who had not only a D4 accent but a speech impediment such as Jonathan Ross has but worse. His nickname was "Wally Wabbit". But yeah D4.....Horrific.


  • #237
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    Why do the Irish say "so" at the end of a sentence, when it clearly doesn't belong there? I have always wondered.

    For me, worst accents ever are american and northern English. Best accents ever = Welsh & Scandinavian. I would do almost anything for someone with a Welsh accent, especially something dirty.


  • #238
    I_AmThe_Walrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭I_AmThe_Walrus


    The muck-savage boggering caveman aborigine originating from the back-arse of Ireland accent.


  • #239
    Captain_Generic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    Northern Ireland accent.
    Suitably imitated by saying "nine iron" over and over again.


  • #240
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Captain_Generic wrote: »
    Northern Ireland accent.
    Suitably imitated by saying "nine iron" over and over again.
    it's NORN IRON YOU FOOL


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  • #241
    RainbowRose81
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 444 ✭✭RainbowRose81


    The worse accent is probably the scotish accent. Other terrible ones are the australian and american accents, the dublin accents, cork, limerick very strong kerry accents. When chinese people are talking english their accents are abit annoying and when some italian men are talking in english they sound very sleazy and snakey just by the sound of their accent but they are probably really nice though. Sometimes it not a person's accents its just the sound of some peoples voice that isn't easy on the ears.


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