Worst English accent?

Arpa · 24-02-2013 04:44AM #1

I mean the country that speaks English as its main language. Was listening to the rugby commentators today and realised....Welsh sounds silly...got me thinking, are we so different?

The Irish accent you hear in Hollywoood is appalling(sometimes promulgated by Irish actors)....so what about the rest?

I'm talking about New Zealand, Wales, Oz, England, Scotland, South Africa, USA, Ireland, and any I've left out. Which country sounds the funniest and is perhaps the worst gramatically? (countries with English as a primary language, not India or somewhere similar...)

Where To · 24-02-2013 04:49AM

English is an official language in India.

Just saying.

Rasheed · 24-02-2013 04:55AM

Can't stand the Australian accent. Can't even watch Home and Away.

Arpa · 24-02-2013 04:59AM

Where To wrote: »

English is an official language in India.

Just saying.

I mean the country that speaks English as it's main language.

tonycascarino · 24-02-2013 05:07AM

Nigeria

flas · 24-02-2013 05:14AM

They speak afrikaans or what!vever its called in south africa....

Chuck Stone · 24-02-2013 05:21AM

Don't know which English accent is worst but know which is best.

The Irish one.

token101 · 24-02-2013 05:29AM

The Birmingham accent. It's ****ing horrific. If I spoke like Adrian Chiles I'd drink bleach.

pappyodaniel · 24-02-2013 05:32AM

Pikeys

grenache · 24-02-2013 05:37AM

Arpa wrote: »

I mean the country that speaks English as it's main language.

Better rule out Serf Afreeka so, it's only the 4th most spoken language there. Although its almost universally understood, even in areas that are Zulu or Afrikaans dominated.

grenache · 24-02-2013 05:41AM

token101 wrote: »

The Birmingham accent. It's ****ing horrific. If I spoke like Adrian Chiles I'd drink bleach.

+1

The Brummie accent sounds like someone trying to speak with their mouth full. Bloody awful. East London accent is mank too. Not fond of Glasweigian either.

im invisible · 24-02-2013 06:01AM

Louth

scudzilla · 24-02-2013 06:16AM

Scouse, it's like a cross between Mancunian and how a pig would sound if it tried talking

celtictiger32 · 24-02-2013 06:21AM

the english accent itself is horrible they sound like whinging little @*&%^ the words get drawn out and go up and down in pitch uuuuugh

grenache · 24-02-2013 06:41AM

scudzilla wrote: »

Scouse, it's like a cross between Mancunian and how a pig would sound if it tried talking

Scouse accent is actually a combination of the local Lancashire dialect mixed with Irish and Scottish, largely due to the massive immigration in Liverpool from both countries, especially from Ireland. Most Irish who went there in Famine times spoke Irish as their first language and had very little if any English. You can hear the influence of the Gaelic speaking people in the modern Scouse accent.

Cookie_Monster · 24-02-2013 07:14AM

North Dublin

monkeysnapper · 24-02-2013 07:20AM

Scottish accent . ....

Well if you can call it English ...

And welsh accent .... Sounds like the persons being shook while they talk ..

tdv123 · 24-02-2013 07:25AM

Harry Redknapp's one.

"well we were kicking the ball around"

ah fuck off

Dejvice · 24-02-2013 09:26AM

1. Dubliner Uni undergraduates.
2. Dubliner Uni graduates who then go to the states returning with even worse accents.
3. Country kids who go to Uni in Dublin.
4. Country kids who go to Uni in Dublin then go to the states returning with even worse accents.

Also accents where people use the word 'em....em....em.....em....em.....em.....em....em...em'.

Creasy_bear · 24-02-2013 09:30AM

Scouse, nothing else even comes close.

Roger_007 · 24-02-2013 09:41AM

Dort.

sesswhat · 24-02-2013 09:43AM

U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A...

MarkHitide · 24-02-2013 09:50AM

The accent that pops into my head when a boardsie user posts 'ya' instead of 'you'.

Cookie_Monster · 24-02-2013 09:54AM

The southern states, Alabama - Louisiana drawl is a pretty awful one too. No matter how intelligent the person that accent makes them sound like an inbred hick with barely two brain cells to rub together.

osarusan · 24-02-2013 10:13AM

I remember watching a documentary on the teaching of creationism in schools in some southern US state. The teacher, himself a creationist, felt it was his duty to present both sides of the 'debate' and let his students decide for themselves.

As he explained the 'theory' of white-skinned people evolving from Africa, one of the students expressed their doubt, by pointing out that, contrasting with most Africans now, 'they'or dif'rint skeeeeee-un.'

I've never heard anything else quite so ignorant in my life, so I'll go for wherever that student was from.

Dejvice · 24-02-2013 10:40AM

...or 'listen mate'....'hey bud'.

summerskin · 24-02-2013 10:43AM

Either Birmingham, Cork, north Dublin or Coleraine accents for me. Hate the bloody lot of them. If I had one of them I'd have taken lessons to change it years ago.

bigneacy · 24-02-2013 10:43AM

I personally don't mind the brummie accent. Cannot stand the oz accent.

The worst tho- definitely the Louisiana/ Alabama accent.

Son0vagun · 24-02-2013 10:47AM

D4 accent.

mikemac1 · 24-02-2013 10:48AM

Cajun accent, ridiculously difficult to understand

monkeysnapper wrote: »

And welsh accent .... Sounds like the persons being shook while they talk ..

Welsh accent is gorgeous!

Jordan5372 · 24-02-2013 10:49AM

The irish accent is unbelievable, cant say one word correct. Let me give you some examples.

Three- Tree

Hammer- Hummer

van- vand

thunder- tunder

Bathroom- battroom

throat- troat

beat- bate

Worst English accent?

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