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Your favourite and least fav accents from anywhere?

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  • #32
    PhlegmyMoses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    mauzo wrote: »
    Jesus everyone hates the Dublin accent!!! :o

    You always get a load of culchies in these threads with chips on their shoulders about Dublin. Sniping at their betters is all they have really...


  • #33
    Mr. Rager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,958 ✭✭✭Mr. Rager


    Best: Galway City
    Worst: Drogheda


  • #34
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Best: Slightly, but not excessively, posh English accent.
    Worst: The Dublin accent of people inclined to say, "I done".


  • #35
    PhlegmyMoses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    Felexicon wrote: »
    Take that back. The women all sound like wetsers.

    From dribbling on themselves.


  • #36
    Youssef Chippo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Youssef Chippo


    eth0 wrote: »
    The 'Oill bladin' boorst ya' Dublin accent isn't bad though
    Ahh leeeve ihh ouu


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  • #37
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    The Sith Ifrican akshant is greeat. Probably de bezt.

    An' Ja' Jhameecan too.


    Ant newcastle too, tit be honest...proper bo.

    Oh Juan final word, the CoLOMbian accent in English, Jesh? Jew know what I talk about.


  • #38
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Worst - Drogheda and Welsh
    Best - I love the scouse accent & Navan.... Ok joking about Navan


  • #39
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    Love the athlone accent, knew a fella from Athlone and he had a sexy accent.
    Hate the Ozzie accent, its so nasal and pitchy.


  • #40
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    emzolita wrote: »
    Hate the Ozzie accent, its so nasal and pitchy.

    G'day


  • #41
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    I like the Dublin accent so long as its not the Lotty Ryan type accent or the real skanger accent. When they speak clearly and pronounce their words fully its a nice accent.

    Don't like nasally Dub accent or the D4 accent.


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  • #42
    phoenix999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 581 ✭✭✭phoenix999


    I got contracted to work with an employer based in West Cork. Had to work alongside two New Zealand girls. Every time they talked the high pitched ending of sentences made everything sound like a question. Was near suicidal after two days. The local West Cork lilt was like a tonic after a days work.


  • #43
    joseph brand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    Seen a YouTube video with a female chef from Nee Zuland. She looked lum with pututoes and frish munt. Very annoying.


  • #44
    Icarus Wings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭Icarus Wings


    Please...form an orderly queue! ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocWVgmkUSk


  • #45
    DonLimon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭DonLimon


    Dislike anything English unless its very very soft.

    Love the Derry accent.


  • #46
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Favourite, Australian for sure rrraaaaawwwrrr

    Least favourite, Newfoundland, where I live now. Gonna murder a housemate soon.


  • #47
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    Whichever type of Kildare accent Christy Moore has FTW.

    Least favourite is the Belfast accent, I find it impossible to decipher over the phone


  • #48
    ziggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ziggy


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  • #49
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,160 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Fav: A slight Aussie twang, not the "Throw a shrimp on the baaaabie and bring me another VB, Sheila" sort, is fantastic.

    Hate: Cork. Painful to listen to for any period of time, especially on women :mad:

    Not a fan of the Kiwi or hardcore Nordi ones either.


  • #50
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Wen ze seeguells folleau ze trawleur... eet iz becuese zey think sardeens will be threun into ze see.


  • #51
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    I hate New Jersey and most New York accents.

    I strongly prefer the dulcet tone of the midwestern American accent. :cool:


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  • #52
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,867 ✭✭✭touts


    Best: Love the sound of a girl with an Australian accent. Think the girl who sometimes does the Movies & Booze on Newstalk. Close second would be a girl with the soft South African accent.

    Worst: Man with that high pitched male Dublin city accent. Makes you instinctively put your hand on your wallet and your back to a wall. Close second would be the Limerick version.


  • #53
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Donegal *swoon*



    Moore Street salt of da earth, makes my skin crawl!


  • #54
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    mike65 wrote: »
    Gorey - its basically Norn Iron gone wrong (yes its that bad)
    i like the gorey accent,but hate the cockney and the english public school type


  • #55
    TheTwiz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭TheTwiz


    When people say Northside & Southside accents what are they talking about? Do people from Clontarf, Sutton, Glasnevin, Griffith Ave, Raheny, Howth & Malahide north of the Liffey sound like their fellow Dubliners from Dolphins Barn, Rialto, Crumlin, Ballybrack, Tallaght & Ballyfermot south of the Liffey?

    Generally people who say "northside accent" are actually from outside the county and don't have a clue.


  • #56
    clappyhappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    Love love love the Scottish accent.


  • #57
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    the icelandic accent when they're speaking english - sweet jesus it's hypnotic!I could listen to it all day.If you want an idea listen to Bjork giving an interview.The worst then is the D4 accent,or it's less well off cousin the C4 accent which comes from the posher parts of Cork. As a man from the Hollyhill/Knocknaheey side of Cork this sounds like nails been dragged across a chalkboard.


  • #58
    cavan4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭cavan4sam


    love the northern accent and the soft galway accent ie. seoige sisters

    hate the monaghan accent


  • #59
    ruthloss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    I dislike the D.4 accent., "Fionn has a brill job in Markashing"

    and Marianne Finnucane ("it has to be said"):rolleyes:


  • #60
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    favourite
    softer Cork / kerry / limerick / northern irish / scottish and scouse

    dislike
    Australian, Wexford, certain galway and roscommon accents as well as
    the very strong / harsh
    Cork / kerry / limerick / northern irish / scottish and scouse


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  • #61
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    TheTwiz wrote: »
    When people say Northside & Southside accents what are they talking about? Do people from Clontarf, Sutton, Glasnevin, Griffith Ave, Raheny, Howth & Malahide north of the Liffey sound like their fellow Dubliners from Dolphins Barn, Rialto, Crumlin, Ballybrack, Tallaght & Ballyfermot south of the Liffey?
    There's so much diversity and variations in the Dublin accent for one city .

    I'm not to fussy on the Birmingham , Bradford ,Burnley and all the other similar (woolyback) type accents from Lancashire but most other English accents are ok by me .


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