What accent(s) grind your gears? I'll start with Glaswegian.

Leicester

Those I can’t understand

Aussie

Birmingham

Brum.

You do realise we're going to offend a lot of people on this thread

Ours is pretty bad. Dont realise how awful it sounds till I go back to Burnley and hear it everywhere. Couldn't do with living down the West Country and hearing that accent all day.

The accents of backwater Yorkshire towns between Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster are so bad they are funny but I'd hate to have the infliction personally

Irish
Just got back from lanzarote this morning and everywhere you went it was irish. Don't get me wrong my dad and stepmother live in belfast, my dad is a plastic paddy being born in salford & he always says with a name like paddy mcsherry you are not irish!!! Born and bred in bury and never left but i am irish, really!!

Scouse, no contest. More so, scouse women.

TheFamilyCat wrote:Scouse, no contest. More so, scouse women.

Always found the Scouse one strange - the Scouse accent on a good looking lass seems to make her more attractive yet any other time it grinds my gears!

The brum accent is the worst IMO.

The BBC accent, professional northerner accent, New London boiz innit bruv accent, middle England nowhere accent

Cumbrian

Gangsta / grime , even worse when white lads/lasses try it, sounds horrific.

Birmingham



Dont mind the female version of the Welsh, irish or posh Geordie accent.

Put-on Scouse (think Carragher)


Sorry, cshhhchaaaarereigghghheeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh

Derby.

Thread closed.

Circumflex. Tilde is probably my favourite.

The black county accent is the worst followed by the Geordie with Stokies not far behind

Close thing between Brummie and Michael Owen.

Brummie without doubt

Anybody that calls a bus a buzz .. Or anybody who pronounces the word Scone to rythme with cone instead of gone ..

David Lloyd when he adopts his 'northern man down south' accent.

I don't think there is much worse than Lancashire dialect - really (and Yorkshire). Despite being a Lancashire lad I really don't like it and it makes us sound thick. Thankfully because of my work I haven't got broad Lancashire but people still know I'm from Lancashire or (worse still) Yorkshire. Otherwise I don't have much problem with other accents apart from Essex, who also sound thick but with arrogance, horrible twang.

A few have said Brummy but I love it, they all sound like comedians even when trying to be serious. Sexiest accent on a female...mmm...I think I'd have to say Geordie (with Scouse second).

FactualFrank wrote:What accent(s) grind your gears? I'll start with Glaswegian.

Billy Connolly once said that Glaswegian is the only accent that makes good morning sound like a threat.

Burypaddy wrote:Irish
Just got back from lanzarote this morning and everywhere you went it was irish. Don't get me wrong my dad and stepmother live in belfast, my dad is a plastic paddy being born in salford & he always says with a name like paddy mcsherry you are not irish!!! Born and bred in bury and never left but i am irish, really!!

Did you attend St. Gabriel's in Bury in the early 1970's by any chance?

ElectroClaret wrote:Close thing between Brummie and Michael Owen.

Worst accents and commentators?

Central to east yorkshire
I hope
pronounced
I herrrrrpppppp
uggggghhhhhhh.

Hibsclaret wrote:Aussie

G'day Bruce

claretnproud wrote:Central to east yorkshire
I hope
pronounced
I herrrrrpppppp
uggggghhhhhhh.

Hull is a bit of a naff accent, must admit. They have nothing on fat, ugly, hairy female Glaswegians though.

FactualFrank wrote:Worst accents and commentators?

Both.

Probably the most irritating would be either Brummy, Glaswegian or Mockney.

Do like a southern Irish accent, as well as the West Country accent.

Apologies to anyone from the Black Country around Brum, Dudley and Wolverhampton .... but that one really grates...

Or another is heard mainly about 10 miles down the M65 from Burnley spoken by someone who enjoys "thurr murrs burr in t'curr purrk befurr travellin on't Buzz tu Blackburrn"

Ethiopian and Scouse Laa my Ar$e!

A strong scouse accent is practically a disability

claret2018 wrote:A strong scouse accent is practically a disability

Remember pulling a very tidy scouse lass in Benidorm. I genuinely didn't understand a word she said all night. Smiles and nods and she was none the wiser.

Fake "Microsoft" support callers from London (when it's probably Delhi...) calling themselves Dave or Steve...

FactualFrank wrote:Remember pulling a very tidy scouse lass in Benidorm. I genuinely didn't understand a word she said all night. Smiles and nods and she was none the wiser.

most lasses like that when they have their mouth full

Rick_Muller wrote:Fake "Microsoft" support callers from London (when it's probably Delhi...) calling themselves Dave or Steve...

And thats the women

Glaswegian.

Mockney

Steve1956 wrote:Glaswegian.

Hey yooo ahhm talkin tu yooo ... ayyye yooo ... see yooo jummmy....

So yeah you are right Steve

that london yoof thing when they pronounce "like " Laayk"
all the other london ones
scouse
all aussie /new zealand

Leeds, like the 2 sisters on gogglebox.

Bosscat wrote:Hey yooo ahhm talkin tu yooo ... ayyye yooo ... see yooo jummmy....

So yeah you are right Steve

My neighbour is a Glaswegian,straight out of Rab C,great lad doesn't give a fu*k I was round his the other day and he had decorated the living room,he mustn't have had any scissors where the all paper had come over the skirting board ,the bit you trim off it was just left at all random lengths hanging over the skirting..funny as.

Liverpool.

Steve1956 wrote:My neighbour is a Glaswegian,straight out of Rab C,great lad doesn't give a fu*k I was round his the other day and he had decorated the living room,he mustn't have had any scissors where the all paper had come over the skirting board ,the bit you trim off it was just left at all random lengths hanging over the skirting..funny as.

His Brother must live near us my m8 has wallpaper like that

A couple of the female sports presenters on Sky and BBC are already in possession of it.

Gabby Logan has IT ...

Dublin.

bfcjg wrote:Dublin.

Agreed