British and global accents: what's your favourite & hated ones?

[Eeyore]

1) What your accent is - Bri'un

2) Your favourite accent - Female Geordie or soft Irish

3) Your most hated accent - Michael Gove-type posh Sweatie

4) What you think is the most least intelligible accent - Male Geordie or Glaswegian

TwopTwip: If you are good at placing people by their accent/dialect, it can be a great pickup line.

PG

Yes, one most useful attribute. Due to the nature of my former job I could eventually place most people to within 40 miles of their origin. This especially impressed folk from Pennine Yorkshire who are often mistaken for Lancastrians.

What I find most interesting is how accents get diluted. I've discovered how some folk who have live in these parts for a long time, yet come from the north, have accents that I have often miss-read as being from Leicester.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

1) What your accent is - West Sussex
2) Your favourite accent - In women French/Edinburgh - otherwise West Sussex
3) Your most hated accent - South African/Dutch
4) What you think is the most least intelligible accent/ Geordie - it's a different language practically

 

[Guy Crouchback]

1) What your accent is: Standard American (people often take me for an American when I'm abroad--must be all those Hollywood movies I watch).

2) Your favourite accent: Old-school RP (Jeeves and Wooster style)

3) Your most hated accent: strong Polish accent (don't know why but even though I love the Polish language, hearing English spoken with Polish accent annoys me to no end).

4) What you think is the least intelligible accent: Cork

 

[AmexRuislip]

My accent is armed forces generic.
Favourite accent is Dutch.
Most shared accent is Brummie.
Most intelligible accent has to be South Wales.

 

[Ecosse Exile]

My accent: ****ed up
Favourite accent: Italian, an Italian bird could call me a **** and I would fall in love with her and hear it as something similar
Most hated: posh London. Just sounds pretentious to me
Least intelligible: at the moment it's Spanish cos I'm trying to learn it, of the home accents Id say Brummie, I just want to laugh at them, they've made sounding thick an art form

 

[gregbrighton]

I hate Mockney - think Jamie Oliver and that annoying cab driver in the 'Gio Compare' commercials.

 

[studio150]

My accent is armed forces generic.

Is this just shouting orders or just the 'Yes Sir'

Mine

Trans rail Brighton/London
BBC 1950s Announcer
Scouse
American Deep South - I saw Tom Petty live at the start of his career and when he was talking between songs I couldn't understand a word

 

[AmexRuislip]

Is this just shouting orders or just the 'Yes Sir'

Mine

Trans rail Brighton/London
BBC 1950s Announcer
Scouse
American Deep South - I saw Tom Petty live at the start of his career and when he was talking between songs I couldn't understand a word

Certainly not shouting orders, but the occasional sir, just enough to keep the chinless wonders happy

 

[8ace]

1) What your accent is: Brigh'on
2) Your favourite accent (on a lady): Southern United States
3) Your most hated accent: Scouser
4) What you think is the most least intelligible accent: Wigger

 

[Buzzer]

Me: soft Worthing/Brighton
Fave: Deep South Yank female
Hated: Scouse, Noo Yoik, anyone who speaks questionese, Jafaican
Least intelligible: Pissed Glaswegian.

 

[GreersElbow]

1) Southern
2) Irish female
3) Chinese
4) Chinese

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

1) What your accent is: Brighton, modified so that foreigners can understand me (I have lived abroad).
2) Your favourite accent: Clint Eastwood.
3) Hated: Brummy
4) unintelligible: Australian, because they end every sentence with an intonation that makes it sound like it is a question when it isnt. ? What was the question? FFS!

 

[Yes Chef]

Apologies for another 'nosey' thread but I would like to know:

1) What your accent is
2) Your favourite accent
3) Your most hated accent
4) What you think is the most least intelligible accent

Fairly standard 'home counties' accent

Welsh accent. The guy I sometimes cyber with has a silky gentle lilt

Birmingham accent. It just sounds too laid back for me

Used to be Glaswegian until I became friends with one

1) Eastbourne Mockney

2) American women putting on an English accent

3) White people talking like black people. Particularly when they grew up in a village in Hampshire. (Dis)honourable mentions for Australian high rising terminal and Staffordshire.

4) I have entirely misconstrued what geordies have said to me more then once

 

[Wilko]

Me: Southern English
Fave: Irish (not northern)
Hated: Californian whaaatevverrrrrrrrr
Least intelligible: There is a couple of american TV shows where the actor just mumbles with a deep south accent and I have no idea what they are saying

 

[nickrhodes]

1) What your accent is: Hastings
2) Your favourite accent: Eastern European and female.
3) Your most hated accent: Public school.
4) What you think is the most least intelligible accent: Public school.

I don't think you are in any danger of hearing a public school accent, ie the Queen's English spoken in Hastings.

 

[wellquickwoody]

the guy I sometimes cyber with

WTF?

 

[ManOfSussex]

I don't think you are in any danger of hearing a public school accent, ie the Queen's English spoken in Hastings.

You can increasingly these days.

 

[SeagullofMalaysia]

1. My accent: Malaysian English (one of the accents, along with Singaporean, that randomly put the prefix 'lah' at the end of each sentence)

2. Fav accent: French or German

3. Hated accent: Manglish or T*sser English a.k.a the one used by love seeking teens here

4. Most unintelligible English: South US aka Redneck

If you want a sample of what I deem as t*sser English:

-The use of unneccessary and usually, entirely incorrect shortforms (relay for relationship, seriously? )

-They think it's fashionable to use atrocious spelling, which is quite tinpot in my eyes (there's a local film titled Rongples Rongtaim FFS, where can you get worse spelling than that?)

 

[Worthingite]

Apologies for another 'nosey' thread but I would like to know:

1) What your accent is
2) Your favourite accent
3) Your most hated accent
4) What you think is the most least intelligible accent

Fairly standard 'home counties' accent

Welsh accent. The guy I sometimes cyber with has a silky gentle lilt

Birmingham accent. It just sounds too laid back for me

Used to be Glaswegian until I became friends with one

What is cybering?

 

[Baldseagull]

1. Southern
2. Educated, without the plum.
3. Scouse, South London Youth-innit dough,
4. Hebridean