Worst/best accent

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by mkmel » Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:29 pm

Best.
Geordie

Worst.
Black Country
Clinton Morrison

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by HahaYeah » Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:56 pm

Worst - London Jafaican.
Best - South Wales female.

I Like Liverpool accents as used by, say The Beatles but can't stand what I think of as modern Scouse. I don't know if it's a modern v old thing or by areas.

Geordie,South West England and Southern USA are also favourites. Cockney also but sadly dying out, probably only used by over 50 year olds now.

Some Irish and Scots accents also but I would't know from which part.

Always laugh when I hear a Burnley accent on tv, it stands out like the balls on a bulldog.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by IanMcL » Tue Jun 01, 2021 5:00 pm

Worst Brum

Best Scottish Western Isles. Lyrical.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by fatboy47 » Tue Jun 01, 2021 5:57 pm

Anything manufactured really makes my bum itch...lots of it about..tv adverts are now crammed with false irish brogues... It clearly shifts product though. Just substitute "noy" for "now".. and go from there...any muppet can do it.

Cerys on the other hand, with her "come to bed" Welsh twang is pure hypnosis...she could get into my pants just reading the OED to me.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by tarkys_ears » Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:12 pm

Any.

Lose your accents people.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by ewanrob » Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:20 pm

Was in Northumberland all.last week...just love their accent. Was sat in a pub (Barrasford Arms) famous for a Likely Lads episode.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by NRC » Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:39 pm

I had to rub my eyes to see that this was a genuine thread......a Burnley MB casting aspersions on the accents of others. It just goes to show that no matter where you might find yourself in society, there's always a lens through which to look down on somebody else, justified or not

:roll:

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by eastanglianclaret » Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:23 am

A soft Welsh accent is pleasant on the ear. The Welsh language itself is one of my favourites to listen to although I only understand 'peint o Guinness'.

The Suvverk accent/dialect is really amusing, it makes West Country folk sound like Einsteins. It's occasionally so difficult to follow that it's almost as though the Vikings never left.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Chobulous » Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:58 am

NRC wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:39 pm
I had to rub my eyes to see that this was a genuine thread......a Burnley MB casting aspersions on the accents of others. It just goes to show that no matter where you might find yourself in society, there's always a lens through which to look down on somebody else, justified or not

:roll:
Kris Kristofferson would agree
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ofzCZiQ9vjA
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Holmeclaret » Wed Jun 02, 2021 2:33 pm

Highland Scots is nice and nothing like Glaswegian etc.
Old North Yorks is interesting. Again nothing like West York’s and full of old Norse.
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by redcloud203 » Wed Jun 02, 2021 2:55 pm

The Fermanagh Irish accent / lilt is very pleasant to listen too . I personally find the Cork (calk ) accent very hard and difficult to listen too for a prolonged period .

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by rob63 » Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:40 pm

Goalposts wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 10:16 pm
Lot to be said for the soft Scottish brogue round Inverness, gives a sense of leadership wisdom and authority
I read once that the Highland accent is the perfect "English" accent, as in, they pronounce all the words as they're written......ie book, good etc is pronounced with an oo sound, whereas elsewhere it varies considerably as to pronunciation.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by ecc » Sun Aug 01, 2021 2:15 pm

I thought "duck" was just Nottingham. Mind you, not far from Derby.

I think it should be remembered that people don't choose their accents.

There are so many very different ones in England it's incredible. Having lived in various parts of SE England it's no easy to guess where someone is from but the variations in the Midlands and the North (especially) are uncanny.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Woodleyclaret » Sun Aug 01, 2021 2:48 pm

Worst Yam Yam,Carlise or Helen Skeltons version of it, Essex (Sarfend),Belfast. Manc.Leeds
Best mine (West Lancs) Scouse,Southern Irish
Being raised near Merseyside I dont have the anti Scouse sentiments common in East Lancs

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by JohnMac » Sun Aug 01, 2021 3:59 pm

Any over exaggerated accent is awful to listen to and there are too many around nowadays.

I find some of the gentle Celtic brogues quite pleasant especially Southern Irish, South Wales and Highland Scots.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by PadihamThickNeck » Sun Aug 01, 2021 4:49 pm

Best - Stong Manchester accent (Liam Gallagher esque)

Worst - Brummie or Bristol

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by durhamclaret » Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:37 pm

Best - Scouse
Worst - Edinburgh

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by bfcjg » Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:51 pm

Won't matter soon all regional accents are dieing out.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... -2066.html

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Top Claret » Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:55 pm

ecc wrote:
Sun Aug 01, 2021 2:15 pm
I thought "duck" was just Nottingham. Mind you, not far from Derby.

I think it should be remembered that people don't choose their accents.

There are so many very different ones in England it's incredible. Having lived in various parts of SE England it's no easy to guess where someone is from but the variations in the Midlands and the North (especially) are uncanny.
Ducks are right across the Midlands with Cocks being Lanky

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Top Claret » Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:57 pm

My least favourite is Manchester. Mancs do a pish poor job of trying to take off scouse which is my favourite accent

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by FCBurnley » Sun Aug 01, 2021 6:18 pm

Best Burnley
Worst Blackburn

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by HunterST_BFC » Sun Aug 01, 2021 6:25 pm

Best Dutch

Worst American

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Top Claret » Sun Aug 01, 2021 7:00 pm

HunterST_BFC wrote:
Sun Aug 01, 2021 6:25 pm
Best Dutch

Worst American
Agree

I Love Dutch woman, Tall blond slim with blue eyes and look sooooo classy

One of my favourite artist was the wonderful father Abraham and his smurfs

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Pstotto » Sun Aug 01, 2021 7:05 pm

A Cannet Stand... Geordie.

:-)

Up in Newcastle the cameras are there with God 'n' and Tweedle and there going around the centre asking passers by how to say Berggruen Institute:

:-)

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by bobinho » Sun Aug 01, 2021 7:26 pm

Wile E Coyote wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 11:13 pm
theres a peculiar london offshoot, the type popular with youth culture. No idea whether its got genuine roots, but it sounds appalling. trevor sinclair speaking this morning about "Affletico Madrid.
Something like this popped up on my news feed tother day. Digby jones I think it was, suggesting Alex Scott can’t talk reyt….she thinks it’s her accent. He, like you wile, has a point.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by warksclaret » Sun Aug 01, 2021 7:30 pm

Worst Brummie or Scouse. Best western Scotland (Dumfries)

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by bobinho » Sun Aug 01, 2021 7:33 pm

NRC wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:39 pm
I had to rub my eyes to see that this was a genuine thread......a Burnley MB casting aspersions on the accents of others. It just goes to show that no matter where you might find yourself in society, there's always a lens through which to look down on somebody else, justified or not

:roll:
Are we not allowed an opinion on what accents we like and what we don’t? Who’s casting aspersions?

And your second sentence…. Do I understand that to mean that we here in Burnley are so lowly we’d be hard pushed to find anyone below us?

You see the irony in that right?

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Pstotto » Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:17 pm

Newcastle Federation Breweries drool...

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Pstotto » Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:19 pm

... At their own product.

:-)

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Billy Balfour » Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:45 am

I bet we sound very different to the indigenous Burnley folk who lived here 150 years ago. I suppose our local dialect has been changing at pace, or 'mellowing and morphing' since the onset of talking films, radio/TV and the developments in transport. At one time, going 'oer t'hill' into the next town would have seemed like strange, uncharted territory to some of our forebears.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by JohnMac » Mon Aug 02, 2021 6:08 pm

Top Claret wrote:
Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:55 pm
Ducks are right across the Midlands with Cocks being Lanky
Duck is used across South Lincolnshire as well, Spalding, Boston etc

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by AfloatinClaret » Mon Aug 02, 2021 6:38 pm

Billy Balfour wrote:
Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:45 am
I bet we sound very different to the indigenous Burnley folk who lived here 150 years ago. I suppose our local dialect has been changing at pace, or 'mellowing and morphing' since the onset of talking films, radio/TV and the developments in transport. At one time, going 'oer t'hill' into the next town would have seemed like strange, uncharted territory to some of our forebears.
Agreed. This is why the UK despite it being geographically far smaller has far stronger regional variations in speech/accent than places such as the USA, Canada, Aus and NZ; those regional accents had far less time to diverge from each other before radio and TV began bringing them back together once again. Even here the TV-effect has been huge, you rarely (unless they're trying hard) here such strong accents as our grandparent's generation acquired.

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