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10 Most Unattractive British Accents
mrkidd85
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mrkidd85
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What does that even mean? There are lots of accents that would qualify as Scottish and they are different even to my English ears. Compare Molly Weir (Sp?) to Rab C Nesbit for example. Indeed I can hear in my inner ear several variants of Glaswegian
If that's the level of the report, putting an entire province in the same category, it's not worse wiping your arse with.
I do struggle with the scottish but probably the worst for me is Geordie. I dated a Geordie lad once and spent the entire relationship nodding in agreement with absolutely no clue what he ever said ...
That sounds like a very risky strategy? Did you ever find out what you were agreeing to?
I hear you. I persevered until Glasgow and Scottish were lumped together as a homogenous mass.
I think the list is more or less covering every accent by being very vague. It seems to start with the Irish one, moves on to the
North East one,
South East posh one.
Midlandy one
Scottishy ones
Welshy ones
West Country ones
South East not so posh ones
etc
I agree with all of them except this:-
What a bunch of crap >:(:kitty::D
Shouldn't that be Shaad appp anyway?
....possibly......;-)
It's the Scottish and Northern Irish accents I can't abide. The rest are OK.
Well, I haven't seen him for 17 years. I could swear he said he was only popping out for a bottle milk
I dated a woman from Berkshire and she struggled a lot more with my accent than I did with hers. She annunciated every word slowly and fully whereas I'm south of Glasgow and we tend to speak very quickly with a lot of syllables not emphasised. Words like "milk" and "cloth" and "twenty" are difficult for me to say in the same way people from other regions can say them. It's not just the conception of them in my brain but the actual physical speech. You do adjust though to people around you, just not immediately.
I could say I disliked or found odd a lot of local accents from within most (probably all) regions. There are some beautiful accents as well though. I love the Cork accent (not UK but will mention it anyway). And the Skye accent too.
Even within local accents there are people who speak harder or softer, quicker or slower, and all other sorts of differences so you'll get nicer or not so nice variations (or ones that are not so subjectively pleasing to the ear of the listener).
I do kind of get the article though when I think of the specific person's voice.
It is a feature of Uk media that generally Northern ireland consists of belfast and everywhere else.
Scouse
Brum
Manc
Hull
All sound nasty.
1) Scouse - just awful
2) Manc - nasal
3) Black Country - nice people, but not the accent, sorry
4) Barnsley - thick beyond belief
5) West Yorkshire accents - also pretty thick
7) Hull - it's ner way to talk properly
8) Estuary English/Mockney - it just "mugs me off mate"
9) Most Northern Irish accents - not a patch on those further south
10) Some Lancashire accents - especially those that say "ther" for "there" and "luke" for "look"
Of course it actually depends on who is speaking. All of the above can sound nice on the right person.
Even if they did sound the same, they have no business being on such a list. i'm not from the area but I love a West Country accent, and can't recall ever hearing anyone express a dislike for any of them.
Manc
South London
Birmingham
Bloody awful.
What's your accent? Do tell so we can rip you to bits. Gonna grate on someone.