What regional accent

[Hilldodger]

We have a French girl working for us at the moment......I could listen to her reading the phone book.

 

[Andy]

FRENCH.

Especially if it's coming from a female.

Zees eez zo vereee troo. Eet eez mand bloweeng!!

 

[GrahamG]

Brummie.

In fact it isn't really an accent, but some hideous oral disease.

Okay then, coffee and cookie in hand!

Brummie grates on me and certain Essex/London area accents, but what grates on me the most is when people like the sound of their own voices and have to speak sooooooo loudly. When I am talking in a pub/restaurant/railway station or wherever, the chances are that nobody will hear my converation other than the person I am talking to. Why do some people think that everyone within a 40 yard radius would like to tune in on their conversation. Gets my goat, it really does.

You gents need a little enlightenment.......

 

[ChrisKH]

We have a French girl working for us at the moment......I could listen to her reading the phone book.

I was sitting in the bike carriage on the train travelling home from work one night in the summer. The bike carriage also houses the trains toilet which has a disabled access round electronic door - the door swings round to open. Cue a picture of loveliness going up to the door, pushing the open button, going inside, door shuts. But she fails to lock it, using the lock button After two minutes or so, the door opens to this young lady perched on the lavatoire in fulll view. Fortunately or unfortunately I was sitting facing her. Very embarrassed (her, not me) I got up like the gentleman I was to join her to shut the door so she could have her privacy. When she came out she said "I'm so sorreee, I'm Frenchhhhh, I did not know".

 

[Melvil]

I got to stick up for the Essex accent...sometimes (I know this is really hard to believe) it's really rather nice, especially on a woman with a soft voice. The horrible essex accent is usually concentrated in south essex...romford/ilford etc. Whereas Colchester and environs have a less harsh, more friendly version.

Up here some of the west edinburgh accents sound like a machine-gun having a dump...really they do. It's horrible.

I'd choose an angus or highland acent over those anytime.

 

[Bodhbh]

Not mad on Cockney, those guys were decended from a different tribe of anglosaxons or something, just grates. Also, any strong UK regional accent crossed with a US accent typical of ex-pats is awful. Hearing Lulu talk drives me nuts, not even so much a transatlantic accent as moving between Glasgow, the mid-atlantic, round about to the S of England and back again in the same sentence.

 

[Kirstie]

I'm going to have to defend the brummie accent. It's got a real earthy genuine-ness (not a word, I know) about it. There's nothing like a straight talking brummie...i love it. And if you've not heard a black coutnry accent you've not lived, it is really nice and warm sounding

Accents which grate - yorkshire is just horrible. But then I'm from Lancashire... the Bucks/Herts/Beds accent is really whiney, more so than Essex and I don't like that much either. But my least favourite is the loud, toffee nosed far back home counties accent which just makes me want to blow things up.

Scots, particularly west highlands/isles, Lancashire, Geordie, Cumbrian and Northumbrian accents just make me melt...

 

[ianrauk]

Scouse... horrible whinging sound

 

[HLaB]

The brummie and geordie accents do my head in paricularly when they come from a bunch of screaming lasses on a hen night. I suppose some people can't stand mine though .

 

[ajevans]

Another +1 for the South Essex accent for me.

Brummie accents get stick but whilst brummie accents sound stupid but comical, south essex accents sound stupid and annoying.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Oddly enough the Irish accent really grates on my ears. Possibly this is because when I was 14 and learning to play the guitar, I used to play a lot of Irish folk music, which it's almost impossible not to sing in an Irish accent. I think I must have used up my quota early on, or something.

 

[fossyant]

Any rather broad accent. Despite being a Manc, I can't stand broad Manc...... Broad scouse - can't tell what they are saying (used to work half way between the two cities) and still couldn't understand....

I suppose it's any scally accents, from where ever you live, sounds awful !

 

[Kirstie]

A number of my mates are from the west country - the other night we all got together for a few drinks and they were all going 'ooo-arrr' by the end of the night. It sounded like a worzels convention.

 

[Crackle]

Any rather broad accent. Despite being a Manc, I can't stand broad Manc...... Broad scouse - can't tell what they are saying (used to work half way between the two cities) and still couldn't understand....

I suppose it's any scally accents, from where ever you live, sounds awful !

Spot on Fossy. The nasal variations of any accent, scouse, brummie, geordie, manc etc.... are the ones that grate but I'm wary of accent judging. Too often a far back accent combined with a hint of tallness, sems all you need to make your way in the world, despite the fact you're actually a plank - Harry Enfield, Tim nice but Dim, anyone?

 

[Wolf04]

Quite like Cheryl Coles Geordie accent.

Don't know if this would be the same with some hairy pi$$ed down the Gallowgate on a Saturday night right enough?

Wey pleese ya sel hinny