Worst accent in Britain
What British accent do you hate the most.
I am really sorry but there are some scouse accents that make me cringe when I hear - especially Jennifer Ellison's and that girl off Hells Kitchen - sorry they might be nice people but :mad:
I am really sorry but there are some scouse accents that make me cringe when I hear - especially Jennifer Ellison's and that girl off Hells Kitchen - sorry they might be nice people but :mad:
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I have lived in Scouse land for 2 years now and I cringe every time I hear a 'dirty scouse' accent. Sublte scouse is ok, but full on is just nasty.
The accents I do quite like are proper East Anglian (just a bit too far West in this part of Essex to really get close), West Country, Lancashire & Yorkshire.
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Belfast :mad:
Brummie makes me cringe, sorry!
I agree. I'm a born and bred Scouser, and there is a distinct difference between North Liverpool scouse and South Liverpool scouse. The South Liverpool scouse is much softer. Once or twice people have actually asked me when I moved to Liverpool because my accent is so subtle, they think I'm from somewhere else. It's only when I'm out of the area or dealing with a call centre somewhere else people actually pick up on my accent.
The North Liverpool scouse is extremely harsh - what I would call 'scally scouse'. It can be almost painful to listen to. Sadly it seems that most scousers who are in the public eye speak with the Northern variant, and therefore people assume we all talk that way. Come up to South Liverpool and you'll see the scouse accent can actually be quite nice.
Very, dare I say the word, chavvy sounding Cockneys, Scousers, Geordies and people from the South East (chavvy ones) sound pretty annoying.
Similar to me. I grew up in Halewood, but have lived in south Manchester/Stockport since I was fourteen.
You'll find a similar divide in Manchester, where people in North Manchester and Salford are the only ones who seem to talk like they're in Coronation Street, whereas in south Manchester and parts of Stockport, it can sometimes sound quite posh! But we always still have baths, never barrths!
I find it amusing to meet southerners, as I have a south Manchester/Stockport accent tinged with soft Halewood scouse. They can work out I'm from the north, but have to ask exactly where!
I've known/heard people with pretty much every accent there is and have come to the conclusion that there are good and bad examples of every accent under the sun
Stoke on Trent
Nottingham/Leicester
Birmingham
Bristol
Ipswich
All horrible.
I like both Scouse and Geordie accents but they tend to sound carping, harsh and common on women.
Well said.. i too am from south liverpool originally.. North Liverpool accent is half put on to make them 'sound dead 'ard lad'.. :rolleyes:
I don't think it's that there are more people with scally scouse accents than southern scouse accents in the public eye, it's more that they are more noticable scouse because of the stronger accent I think.
I detest the brummie accent. It just sounds horrible.
Probably because we don't here them both enough to learn to hear their differences. How many days are there where you don't hear a Brummie, or Geordie, or Scouse, or Scottish accent on the TV/Radio? Not many I'll bet. We simply hear these accents more often so we are more easily able to distinguish between them.