Favourite/ Least favourite accents

[Tibs]

BBC NEWS | UK | Connery's accent is UK favourite

what do you think? personally I like Brummie (dont know why its so unpopular), highlands and cockney. dont really like Northern Irish or a scouse accent.

[tortohibee]

the scouse is by far the worst. followed by scheemie weegie.

southern irish is my favourite

[hibadelic]

I hate, that nasaly west-central Scottish / Glaswegian accent where every sentence ends with a low then high note. So annoying, even on the occasions you can understand it.

I like accents from the southern counties of Rep of Ireland. Cork, Kerry etc. Can't understand a word but it sounds really nice. Like singing a song with nonsensical words.

[east calder hibby]

Favourite accent, Southern Irish on a woman.

Worst, Weegie on a woman...

[beefy]

Accents i like are Geordie/Mackem, Irish(incNorth) and Bristol.

Accents i hate are West coast(especially bints)Welsh and Doric.

Worst is that half breed posh English Edinburgh accent though.

[hibadelic]

I've got to say, there are some shockingly bad Irish accents, just as there are some really bad Scottish ones. Just depends where you are in the country.

[southfieldhibby]

OK yah horsey types really nip my thrupnies, I find corwall/dorset accents quite endearing, mibbe because they all come across as being totally thick it's a sympathy thing?

[beefy]

Brad Pitts Irish pikey accent in Snatch is the best

I understood every word

[Colr]

All accents are fine as long as they are not too thick and you can understand what's being said.

However, one that really grates with my is RP - especially from folk with a superior attitude. It really brings out the worst in me.

[hibadelic]

Originally Posted by Colr

However, one that really grates with my is RP - especially from folk with a superior attitude. It really brings out the worst in me.

Wot dat? Rod Petrie?

[Tibs]

Originally Posted by hibadelic

Wot dat? Rod Petrie?

Received Pronounciation. Basically Queen's English I think

[hibadelic]

Originally Posted by Tibs

Received Pronounciation. Basically Queen's English I think

Like BBC English?


Mr Chumley-Warner

[Tibs]

Originally Posted by hibadelic

Like BBC English?

I think so yeah

[Colr]

Originally Posted by Tibs

Received Pronounciation. Basically Queen's English I think

Yup. Like the type what was spoke on the bbc back in the 50s.

[Tibs]

Originally Posted by Colr

Yup. Like the type what was spoke on the bbc back in the 50s.

Is RP the same as Standard English? According to that article 59% in UK wish they could ditch their regional accent for Standard English

[Hibs_Lass]

Originally Posted by Tibs

BBC NEWS | UK | Connery's accent is UK favourite

what do you think? personally I like Brummie (dont know why its so unpopular), highlands and cockney. dont really like Northern Irish or a scouse accent.

Love geordie accent and irish of course.

Dislike brummie due to my ex dating a lass from there when we split ! dunno why it got to me so much since he is an ex

[Burbank Lilywhite]

the most unpopular voice was that of DUP leader Ian Paisley.

I'm shocked.

I'm certain the Shinners will be issuing a statement shortly claiming bias as Gerry Adams didn't a get a mention.

[CraigHFC]

I like the Bolton/Lancashire accent. Peter Kay's accent really

I don't like the Weegie, fake-Cockney or West Country accents

[Green Sleeves]

Posh English accents really set my teeth on edge. As soon as the Queen opens her coupon it feels like a dentist's drill going right through you. Posh English sorts speaking BBC English/Queens English/Home Counties English scream out AVOID THIS PERSON. It's a shame for them cos it seems to have that affect on millions of people. Its just that theyre too thick to realise it.

[Colr]

Originally Posted by Tibs

Is RP the same as Standard English? According to that article 59% in UK wish they could ditch their regional accent for Standard English

Don't know. Is there such a thing? I meant like Cholmley warner.

[chrissy-r-hfc]

Don't like Yorkshire, it's annoying how they say right.

[Colr]

Originally Posted by [1]hibs[1]

I don't like the Weegie, fake-Cockney

It has been suggested that local accents are disappearing and becoming more like to dominant cultural accent.

In Scotland that would be Weegie and the suggestion being that more accents are closer to Weegie.

I heard a radio article about how vernacular trends in England tend to spread out from London and have done for a few centuries.

You don't often hear old Leith accents like my granny or old Mrs. Casey from the sweet shop had any more.

Airdie and Coatbridge accents aren't that disimmilar any more and even sound quite like weegie themselves.

[GalegoHibs]

Originally Posted by Colr

Don't know. Is there such a thing? I meant like Cholmley warner.

If you are asking if there is such a thing as one Standard English then the answer is probably not as it is a ridiculous idea where the home counties (minority) perspective imposes the "standard" upon millions upon millions of other native English speakers from all over the world who can speak the language just as well (if not better). I'd guess that is why the term was written between quotation marks in the original article - suggesting there is no such thing as SE.

Fortunately more outward views of language have developed over the years and we see such terms as Scottish Standard English, Irish Standard English, American Standard English and so on.

What Standard English means to me in a useful sense is speaking without dialect -not to be confused with speaking without an accent (which of course doesn't exist no matter what someone from the home counties might like to believe).

Using Scottish Standard English then would mean talking with a Scottish accent but avoiding use of dialect, eg saying "I don't know" instead of "Ah dinnae ken" but without the need for a Chumley Warner impression.

For some reason people can get very confused between accent and dialect. Doric is a dialect. "Ken fit a mean, loon?" is of course more than accent and is clearly not (Scottish) Standard English. However, if someone from Aberdeenshire said "Do you know what I mean, son? then they would be speaking (Scottish) Standard English with an Aberdeen accent.

Hope that clears things up a bit on accents and dialect. Apologies to those for whom the above is blatantly obvious but it's amazing how many people confuse accent and dialect and it makes me feel like doing this .

FWIW I'm not keen on Brummie/Midlands accents, Essex is a bit of a nightmare to be honest and is not helped by the Beckhams, some Aussie and New York accdnts do my heid in as well. Also, that growing fashion which is now pretty widespread where the intonation rises at the end of virtually every sentence and makes everything said sound like a question.