Accents

[Mathew]

Do you like your accent? What's your favourite accent?

I obviously have a slight Yorkshire accent which could be considered quite a nice thing to have due to polls suggesting that it's one of the friendliest. Apparently it's considered one of the most intelligent too, perhaps due to the stereotypical "Yorkshire policeman" image. I'm not convinced and I don't really like it all that much.. :(

My favourite accent is probably Received Pronunciation, better known as BBC English (the Queen, David Cameron and Stephen Fry, to name a few RP speakers)! It sounds so nice when you hear it on the radio or television and it carries a sense of authority.

How about you? :)

[FlyingJesus]

One speaks in a proper manner.

[Jordan]

Hmm I'm not too sure if I have a proper cornish accent or not. I don't really like proper Cornish accents they sound stupid..

[Casanova]

in the uk, the corners.
ie, scotland (apart from the silly ones like fife, aberdeen, dumfries... they sort of silly area's), welsh and especially NI.


Most english accents cut through me. especially the ghetto ones. like LANDAN. they're terrible. especially with the funny dialect that comes up from their infantile chat. like blud. bredrin. brap.

i also like south african and swedish.

[buttons]

i try not to speak in dialect when talking to people not from here & i only really have an accent when i do talk in dialect (i think anyways). i actually like the accent up here. dont rly like any others..

oh n yes we have diff accents in scotland, just bc im scottish doesnt make me a glasweigan.... hey i like matt (cocaine) n niamhs tho lol :/

[Aaron]

Well, I wouldn't say I've got an accent.

I'm from Dublin in Ireland, wouldn't say I've much of an accent. Don't really have a favorite accent tbh! :P

[cocaine]

landan accent. i guess.

[wixard]

i hate mineeeeeeeeee and others especially here usually don't like it too

[Narnat,]

I don't really mind my accent I mean it's scottish whats not to like ;)

[:Gero]

I love accents from the UK,

A lot of girls with an accent always catch my attention.

[brandon]

Yeah I like my accent, although it's not really regional, as if I don't really have one, but most people don't think they have an accent I guess.

[beth]

so i have (voted) the worst accent in the uk hahahaha, but i do like it. i think it gives me a bit of character ;)

[Jin]

I like the welsh accent its like being constantly sung to.

[Sloths]

I get teased for my accent so bad :/
Merge a brummie accent with a kiwi accent and you get mine. it's really weird and I get mixed opinions, i will never get over the amount of crap I get for saying h though...It's what I get for moving to NZ i guess XD

I do say I love Irish accents and those posh London accents like Jude Laws mmmmmmmmm :P

[GirlNextDoor15]

i also like south african and swedish.

Me too! I like South African's accent. Dunno about swedish though

[Eric]

i like english accent

[MKR&*42]

I live in Wiltshire... where everyone is meant to talk like a farmer? And the majority of my friends really fit that stereotype :L

I don't though, The only thing I sound like is Slightly "Posh"... just because I pronounce words properly... -_-. I'd call that more educated than posh.

My favourite accent would probably be a Spanish accent, I love the language and the accent :3 and I'm also like.. 1/16th Spanish xL

[Mark]

I'm scottish and I would say I have quite a strong scottish accent, especially when I talk in slang. I agree with you on the received pronunciation accent.


I don't really mind my accent I mean it's scottish whats not to like ;)

Haha, it's been too long nar!! :P

[Ostinato]

I have a very broad Scottish accent and wouldn't change it :) Plus foreigners abroad seem to love it!

[Casanova]

I have a very broad Scottish accent and wouldn't change it :) Plus foreigners abroad seem to love it!

My accent's really broad and I don't use slang often so it's a very tame glasweigan one. I've been asked about, forty times while out if i'm polish because my accent doesn't seem right.

I JUST DON'T GEDDIT :'(.

[Red]

I have a northern irish one lmao. I don't think its really strong but loads of people think I'm from Belfast. I do like my accent but still cringe when I hear myself speak LMAO

[@K]

in the uk, the corners.
ie, scotland (apart from the silly ones like fife, aberdeen, dumfries... they sort of silly area's), welsh and especially NI.


Most english accents cut through me. especially the ghetto ones. like LANDAN. they're terrible. especially with the funny dialect that comes up from their infantile chat. like blud. bredrin. brap.

i also like south african and swedish.

Not everyone here talks like that, I find it rare to find people today, who use such terrible language, maybe it is because I'm older now and it mainly stays in school? I'm a Londoner, and I say LONDON,not 'Landan', although my friends from up North believe I do. London, obviously, is my favourite dialect, especially when spoken in a correct manner, like myself how I speak. The dialects that really get on my nerves though are the normal ones, Liverpudlian, Welsh, Brumey and Scottish. Oh, not forgetting the Essex dialects.

[Ostinato]

My accent's really broad and I don't use slang often so it's a very tame glasweigan one. I've been asked about, forty times while out if i'm polish because my accent doesn't seem right.

I JUST DON'T GEDDIT :'(.
LOL polish? Jezo - Unfortunately there is no denying I am from Glasgow through and through for me lol. :P

[Casanova]

the blond hair blue eyes does it for me, I think.

And erh, I've met many a londoner like that, especially through my work. It grates on me. What's even worse is the weird accents that come out from mass immigration, like faux afrikan/jamaican-south englander thing some people use.

[@K]

You've obviously met the wrong kind then, I'm from West London and living (until tomorrow) in South London, and the only people I have heard speak like you stated previously are black school kids (not being racist).

[FlyingJesus]

Literally never heard anyone say "Landan" unless they're taking the piss lol but I think I know what the general accent you're on about is Allan, and yeah it does grate a bit. Any time it sounds like speaking is a full on effort is just wrong

[RyRy]

My accent is something disgusting but I love it all the same.

[Rainbow]

I sorta like my Yorkshire accent xD

[tylermunjkt]

I have a an English accent? Dunno what its called but in Lowestoft we dont rly have an accent. My fav is Canadian tho

[Samantha]

Haha, we did a poll in our English Language class Mathew and R.P was ranked the lowest with our own accent voted the highest.

To be honest though I voted west country (Somerset, Glouster etc, I think that's the name anyway). As my Auntie and Uncle are from there and I always think they are Welsh but I just like the way they speak. Also my English Language teacher (one of them) is from Bristol way on originally and he often puts on accents from the West Country and it just sounds nice to me!

[Circadia]

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My accent is northern one (North West) But I don't think i really have an accent because i'm from Blackpool and not places like Manchester and Liverpool which have strong well recognized accents! But I do sound a bit southern sometimes because of my family, they are all southerners and then i picked up the northern accent because of living up north xD But yeah I don't really think I have an accent just certain words sound a bit different xD My favorite accent is either Mancunian or American/Canadian :)

[Neversoft]

I was born in Bedfordshire, which is in East Anglia and rather near London, but grew up in the Midlands in Northamptonshire. I think I probably have more of a normal London-ish accent though. I speak very British English and don't like using slang. I pronounce water correctly and stuff.

I don't know what to make of my accent. Mostly because I don't notice it. I've lived in the same place for too long and all the people I know have similar accents and most of the television I watch is based down here, so I just can't distinguish it. I guess in that respect I wish it was more apparent, though I bet if I ventured up North or something I'd start noticing it every day. My Northern friend said my accent was strange. Although I have had Americans say they love it. I'll have to get back to you on whether I like it or not.

I don't know what my favourite accent is.

[Lamz]

My accent is the **** obvs! ;) lool

I love canadian girls accents, bristol & manchester ... idk why

[geo]

I don't really think I have an accent. Apparently, my voice changes from posh (;l) to just normal. I don't really have the strong accent you would hear in my area which I'm kind of releaved about. :)

[velvet]

i speak bbc english with a slight essex twang, but not enough to be considered a full on essex accent.
my accent is my favourite lol

[Rozi]

I'm from London, we don't have a distinctive accent rly

I guess I speak quite properly, but my accent rapidly changes to do with who I'm talking to or what environment I'm in.

I do actually have a bit of a problem with dropping my t's
and saying H like haich

I love bristol accents
and zee french of course

[Casanova]

My accent is the **** obvs! ;) lool

I love canadian girls accents, bristol & manchester ... idk why

i imagine YOU being the exact distinction of the bad london accent I'm talking of.

[@K]

To everyone saying they don't have an accent, of course you do, an American will turn around and say 'I sound normal, I don't think I have an accent', but, of course they do to US, a northerner will have an accent/dialect, whatever you want to call it, and so do I and the rest of the southerners. Just because you grow up in a certain place, have lived there all your life, doesn't mean you do not sound different to people from other places, obviously to you, that is the norm, but for me and others, you do not sound 'normal'. I speak with a London dialect, just like those of you from Scotland, Blackpool, Birmingham and everyone else speak with a dialect originating from where you are from.

[Narnat,]

My accent's really broad and I don't use slang often so it's a very tame glasweigan one. I've been asked about, forty times while out if i'm polish because my accent doesn't seem right.

I JUST DON'T GEDDIT :'(.

I have the same thing! I was in this taxi and the guy is like are you from Glasgow? and I was like yes.. and hes like nah you talk too posh. I just like to talk properly.

[Casanova]

I have the same thing! I was in this taxi and the guy is like are you from Glasgow? and I was like yes.. and hes like nah you talk too posh. I just like to talk properly.

that's my precise problem.
if I walk into a pub, i get the STARES. never had trouble though, for being a posh poof o:).

[Lamz]

i imagine YOU being the exact distinction of the bad london accent I'm talking of.

loool, okok you win :P

[xxMATTGxx]

I would say I have some sort of Mancunian accent, not fully but some sort. I'm sure someone who has heard me on the phone or on skype can tell me what bloody accent I have. No problems with it either way and I don't really have a favourite!

[Lee]

Weak scouse accent :/

[danzooo]

I have a Scottish accent and I don't mind it, really. I'm from Edinburgh but I've lived now in Fife for 7 years and despite them being right next to each other, there is a little bit of a difference in the accent. Mines is a bit more broad now that it used to be.

[Dopiefreak]

From a stupidly snobbish town just north of Leeds, so I sound like a posh chav.

Id speak the Queens English if I could :)

[chantellehugs]

Whenever I meet someone new they always ask me where I'm from because apparently I've got a posh accent and they're surprised when I say West Midlands. I like my accent though, I like it because I think if I spoke how some of my classmates speak I'd just sound stupid. :P

[Sharon]

I can never tell what accent people have but there's a guy in my science with the hottest voice ever and he's from the Bermuda Triangle if anyone knows where that is :|

[Neversoft]

I can never tell what accent people have but there's a guy in my science with the hottest voice ever and he's from the Bermuda Triangle if anyone knows where that is :|

EL OH EL. I hardly think he's from the Bermuda Triangle as that's typically part of the North Atlantic ocean. Bermuda maybe, but not the Bermuda Triangle.

[Bails]

Irish Accents FTW.

[Demi]

Irish accents on girls. :)

[Sharon]

EL OH EL. I hardly think he's from the Bermuda Triangle as that's typically part of the North Atlantic ocean. Bermuda maybe, but not the Bermuda Triangle.

:( how do I know! Chirs you make me loook bad :(

[bkps]

I got a really londoner accent lol.
I love Australian, Welsh and Canadian accents ;]

[Martin]

My accent is really boring, its like kind of a cross between midlands and wales I guess, not much welsh but just a tint sometimes (used to stay in wales a lot with ma sister in laws family)

I really like welsh accents and scottish accents and Irish accents, idk why xD

[Blinger]

I got a really londoner accent lol.
I love Australian, Welsh and Canadian accents ;]

You'll love mine. ******' love my accent. Sounds true blue.

[Sharon]

You'll love mine. ******' love my accent. Sounds true blue.

I didn't like yours :(

[Blinger]

I didn't like yours :(

You're too used to the movie version of accents, mine is genuine!

[Cerys]

I have a really really strong Yorkshire accent.I don't really like it though, + tyvm for kinda saying Im friendly and intelligent ;) xxx

[Camy]

I quite like my accent, what annoys me is when people try and type out the accent/dialect on fb.
I really like Irish accents too.

[Describe]

I didn't think I had much of a Scottish accent but apparently I'm "very, very, very, Scottish".

[wiktoria]

i hate my accent.

i love scottish and london accents yum

[Jurv]

I've got a Mancunian accent but I don't really think I sound that Manchester-ish, it's never bothered me though. I love Scottish and Irish accents but hate Liverpool accents. :)

[Laurrenbbz]

i
hate
my
accent
:(
i hate liverpool too,
but love american :loveyou:

[MickSays]

Am A Scouser :P Love The Essex Girls Accent to be honest =]

[Blinger]

Pretty much all British accents are amazing tbh.

[Aidenn]

Dont mind mine, but i adore the Scottish + Geordie accents

[-:Undertaker:-]

I don't think I have an accent, at least I hope I don't *taps on Location bar*

I dislike accents myself, personally I prefer to hear Queen's English on television (which is rare these days).

[Blinger]

I don't think I have an accent, at least I hope I don't *taps on Location bar*

I dislike accents myself, personally I prefer to hear Queen's English on television (which is rare these days).

Ugh! she is way way way too posh for my likings, although her voice is beautiful

[Firehorse]

I have a British accent, I do like it: Americans and Canadians love the British accent so that's always a good plus.

[ChloeeBALDWIN]

I dont think I have an accent; well I don't have a strong accent. Cause' im around everyone thats from the same place as me all the time we all have the same accent so like yeah. I hate chavvish accents
But love pikey / gypsy accents
*REMOVED*. (y) like paddy off cbb (y)

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[Luke]

I'm from Essex, and live in Durham - most of the essex is gone, and people in Durham actually attempt to speak properly, unlike Newcastle and Sunderland - so I like my accent, it's rather civilised.
I can't STAND the Liverpudlian accent, or Leeds/Bradford. (infact, make that yorkshire)..

[The Don]

I love the voice of anyone from Birmingham or Manchester!

[xRemziBx]

I don't really an accent I don't think, its just like a plain english accent, I wish I had a better accent though mines kinda boring i think!

[Eoin247]

People usually like mine when i'm outta the country, so i'm happy enough :)

[Jazz]

Hate my accent, its a kinda of mix between a Coventry and Isle of Wight accent :/ Like a chavy farmer

My favorite accent is the Birmingham or the Newcastle accent :P

[benjamin]

the welsh accent is luuuuuuuuush.

i have a southern accent with a welsh twinge every now and again.

well saying that, i don't really know what an oxfordian accent would be classed as.

[Vinnie:Safety]

Do you like your accent? What's your favourite accent?

Accent is a tone of voice, a way of speaking one person is not used to, yeah everybody has an accent, but nobody thinks of themselves having accents.
So in my little world, i don't have an accent. Everyone else does.
And my favorite one would have to be african americans, jewish, and australian. and a ladies british accent, they such a turn-on

[CaptainAce$$]

I have'nt got a favourite tbh, My accent is geordie.

[Jazz]

Accent is a tone of voice, a way of speaking one person is not used to, yeah everybody has an accent, but nobody thinks of themselves having accents.
So in my little world, i don't have an accent. Everyone else does.
And my favorite one would have to be african americans, jewish, and australian. and a ladies british accent, they such a turn-on

what does a jewish accent sound like? o_O

Am I being silly when I say that Jewish people are apart of a religion, not a race?

[toribbz]

geordie. oh my. loooove.

lol i hate my accent..

[CaptainAce$$]

Hate my accent, its a kinda of mix between a Coventry and Isle of Wight accent :/ Like a chavy farmer

My favorite accent is the Birmingham or the Newcastle accent :P

In other words Jazz, you like our geordie accents. ;)

[Jazz]

In other words Jazz, you like our geordie accents. ;)

Yes. I love the geordie accent :love:

[Lewis]

I'm half scottish, half american. I don't mind my accent, don't exactly hate it or love it. I really like pure american accents, and irish ones though!

[Oleh]

I certainly like Yorkshire accent. As I'm from Yorkshire.

[Muffings]

Well I have a welsh accent x

[Shar]

I don't have an accent!

[HotelUser]

I don't have an accent!

Yes you do.

[Robbie]

my accent is a "hard nut" accent according to [@]@ryry[/@] and [@]@paulmacc[/@]

[GoldenMerc]

Iv got a scottish accent :o

[Technologic]

My accent is similar to my dads (he's from Hertofrdshire and rather posh) but with a Mancunian twang

[Jnx]

Slight mix of essex and londener yet surprisingly it doesn't sound as bad as that makes it out to be...

[David]

Glasgow accent :P!

[Racheel]

I'm from Bolton so obviously I'm quite Northern naturally, although to be honest, I find my accent changes quite a bit depending where I am and who I'm with (not intentionally). I guess I don't really like my accent, maybe that's why it changes? Or maybe I'm just open to change and that shows through picking up things from other people's accents?

Accents I like? I'm not too sure really... As long as I can understand you okay I don't have a problem! :p