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Favourite/Least Favourite UK accents??

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    #32
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    Jaylah Dirty Poacher wrote: »
    Most really - cannot understand the N.I. accent hate. Yum!

    The only one I really dislike is the strong south-west England accent: "Oi've got a brand new comboine 'arvester", Vicky Pollard etc.

    It’s very difficult to take any one seriously when they sound like Worzel Gummidge


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    #33
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Aegir wrote: »
    It’s very difficult to take any one seriously when they sound like Worzel Gummidge
    I should have sympathy, being from Cork, but I reserve that sympathy for people from Liverpool. :)


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    #34
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,269 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Scottish accents of course like Irish accents vary wildly. Worked with a Scottish man once where his employment was short lived but couldn't understand a single word. On the other hand I was talking to a guy from Edinburgh just the other day and he sounded like The Bodyguard star. He looked like him as well coincidently. Quite strong but in no way difficult to decipher. Quite liked it actually.

    In fact thats my answer to favorite, Edinburgh . Least favorite, well it would be hard to pick the worst. Brummie (Birmingham) /Scouser (Liverpool) really grates I feel. Joint Worst. No actually, I'll give it to Scouser. Steven Gerrard's, the footy player, is so whiney. It's like the accent is a by-product of living for years in a deprived area when generations before do noting but complain about their lot.


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    #35
    Prominent_Dawg
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    When them girls from Geordie Shore talk I want to get sick, it has to be the worst


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    #36
    Gimme A Pound
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    Prominent_Dawg wrote: »
    When them girls from Geordie Shore talk I want to get sick, it has to be the worst
    I actually like that accent when it's milder. But yeah, as with any accent (whether posh or not) when it's TOO strong, it's grating.


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    Arghus
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    I like the sound of the Birmingham accent.


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    #38
    Gimme A Pound
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    Arghus wrote: »
    I like the sound of the Birmingham accent.
    The heavy metal accent!


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    #39
    Spleerbun
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Spleerbun


    Have some friends from Burnley and quite like their accent, guess that might be close to a Manchester accent? And Im also a fan of the Scouse accent too tbh, so I seem to be the polar opposite of the people polled!


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    #40
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    I like the soft NI accent, not the Belfast, which sounds harsh. I'm originally from the south of England, Thames Valley, which isn't too bad. My cousins call this country "Eye-lind", which really irritates me.


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    #41
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    Very interesting poll results. I wonder how different the results might have been back in the 1970s or 80s when relations were weak between these two countries and the IRA were setting off bombs in England.

    My Dad worked over there during a lot of that time, and deliberately altered his accent for the avoidance of grief. Not just because of the IRA, but because of a wider suspicion of Irish people in his field of work (construction - a lot of people wouldn't have taken 'Paddy' seriously, even knowing he was an engineer, or whatever)


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    #42
    jimgoose
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    My favourite would be a gentle Bristolian/West Country chunter, as in James May. Eastenders-style "shut it you slaaaag!!" accents make me want to kick things. :pac:


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    Aegir wrote: »
    Any accent that pronounces Graph “Graff”.

    ****ing Philistines.

    It’s grap-eh, right?


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    #44
    OldMrBrennan83
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    That one's news to me. I may be an idiot but in all my working life I've never heard it pronounced like anything other than graf.


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    #45
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    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    That one's news to me. I may be an idiot but in all my working life I've never heard it pronounced like anything other than graf.

    Graph, rhymes with laugh.


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    #46
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    About 12 miles north west of Birmingham is the town of Dudley, where the accent is like a Brummie accent on steroids. It's ghastly.

    It should be classed as a disability.


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    #47
    brainfreeze
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    prinzeugen wrote: »
    There are tons of local variations in Scottish accents.

    Glaswegian is horrible but half cast weegie is worst. Not quite Glasgow, not quite Edinburgh. Posh Glaswegian is just as crap.

    People from Aberdeen sound like Geordies, Highlander is nice, miners scots is gobbledygook (my brother speaks like that) but the most popular (according to QI) is a posh Edinburgh accent (like mine!).

    Queens Scottish its sometimes called. I find valleys Welsh the most annoying after Glaswegian.

    What a half cast weegie accent? Example?


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    #48
    Mad_maxx
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    Like Yorkshire and the West Country

    Hate scouser and Birmingham


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    #49
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    Aegir wrote: »
    Graph, rhymes with laugh.

    That’s right. What with the u in there.

    Do you have your own language going on there?


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    #50
    orourkeda1977
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    My favourite would be a gentle Bristolian/West Country chunter, as in James May. Eastenders-style "shut it you slaaaag!!" accents make me want to kick things. :pac:

    Faacking shaaaat it you cockney caaaant


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    #51
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    I like: cockney, scouser, west country, soft scottish, soft welsh, posh southern english (sexy on women)

    Don't like: glaswegian, manchester, brummie, geordie, yorkshire and hard nordy irish


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    Doc07
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    I get to enjoy a few days every year in UK , mostly north of England or Scotland for courses/conferences.

    Like the accent around Harrogate (Yorkshire) and Southhampton (south) but all time favourite is Newcastle.
    Listening to a talk on complex Surgery in a Geordie accent is like opera for me!


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    #53
    jimgoose
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    Candie wrote: »
    About 12 miles north west of Birmingham is the town of Dudley, where the accent is like a Brummie accent on steroids. It's ghastly.

    It should be classed as a disability.

    I was watching Coronation Street the other evening with Woman and some youngfella - it might have been David Platt - went up to the counter in the local caff and deadpanned "'Ave yer owt 'ealthy laaahk?". I shot port out of my nose, I thought it was ludicrously funny. :pac:


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    #54
    Yer Da sells Avon
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    Eastenders-style "shut it you slaaaag!!" accents make me want to kick things. :pac:

    Oi, leave it aaaahhhht!


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    #55
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    I don't mind the Cockney accent but there's one thing that drives me crazy, and that's 'innit'. It's worst in the under 25's, innit, but it's annoying when someone ends almost every sentence with innit. Innit?


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    #56
    jimgoose
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    Oh and, a certain James Whitham, former World Superbike hardarse, motorcycle racing commentator and general-purpose legend in his own lunchtime, hails from 'Uddersfield and will respond to any given question with something that sounds like "Eeeeeeee t'booggery-booggery-booggery-booggery nice cuppa tea laaaaahhhhk!!" :D


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    #57
    fryup
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    Candie wrote: »
    About 12 miles north west of Birmingham is the town of Dudley, where the accent is like a Brummie accent on steroids. It's ghastly.

    like this is it? ;)


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    #58
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    fryup wrote: »
    like this is it? ;)

    Only worse!


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    #59
    Yer Da sells Avon
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    Candie wrote: »
    I don't mind the Cockney accent but there's one thing that drives me crazy, and that's 'innit'. It's worst in the under 25's, innit, but it's annoying when someone ends almost every sentence with innit. Innit?

    Every sentence is a question, innit?

    I ain't done nuffink, 'ave I?


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    #60
    Tom Mann Centuria
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    Candie wrote: »
    About 12 miles north west of Birmingham is the town of Dudley, where the accent is like a Brummie accent on steroids. It's ghastly.

    It should be classed as a disability.

    The Black Country.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #61
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    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    Every sentence is a question, innit?

    I ain't done nuffink, 'ave I?

    Matter of opinion, innit? I know nuffink bout nuffink, innit?


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