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Worst/best accent

Post by Inchy » Mon May 31, 2021 6:10 pm

Currently holidaying in Elmer on the south coast (next to Bognor) and it’s been swamped by cockney wide boys with horrendous tattoos and even worse accent. Jesus Christ it’s unbearable got to be up there with the worst accent.

The best is Geordie and Irish

The worst-
Cockney
Brummie
Scouse
Broad Burnley female accent (male is charming)

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by lakedistrictclaret » Mon May 31, 2021 6:13 pm

Best:- Geordie
Worst:- Derbyshire

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Steve1956 » Mon May 31, 2021 6:15 pm

Worst...Scouse
Best ...Glaswegian

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by bobinho » Mon May 31, 2021 6:25 pm

Worst? Scouse by a country mile. Followed by Brum, Cockerknee, Leeds (yorks) and Naaaaaaaaarrrrrrccccchhhhhh.

Comedic effect? West Country. Still laugh when I hear it.... :lol:

Best? Ours. Geordie is good and Northern Irish (especially on the ladies)
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by OssyClaret » Mon May 31, 2021 6:26 pm

Best - Scottish
Worst - Bristol

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by jetblackcat » Mon May 31, 2021 6:27 pm

lakedistrictclaret wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:13 pm
Best:- Geordie
Worst:- Derbyshire
Which Derbyshire accent? There are many.
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Im_not_Robbie_Blake » Mon May 31, 2021 6:28 pm

Best - Northern Ireland
Worst - Brum

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Steve1956 » Mon May 31, 2021 6:35 pm

Still game...Glaswegian accent
Absolutely hilarious,Not to be missed
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by gawthorpe_view » Mon May 31, 2021 6:35 pm

Best - Female Geordie.
Worst - Female Scouse.
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Stayingup » Mon May 31, 2021 6:36 pm

Inchy wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:10 pm
Currently holidaying in Elmer on the south coast (next to Bognor) and it’s been swamped by cockney wide boys with horrendous tattoos and even worse accent. Jesus Christ it’s unbearable got to be up there with the worst accent.

The best is Geordie and Irish

The worst-
Cockney
Brummie
Scouse
Broad Burnley female accent (male is charming)
Are there any cockneys left in London. Apart from Danny Dyer that is. Never hear one on the media channels. Hear London accents but they aren't cockney.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Bosscat » Mon May 31, 2021 6:37 pm

Worst Brummie/Scouse equally Men and Women
Best Men Southern Irish & Ladies Northern Irish

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by expoultryboy » Mon May 31, 2021 6:40 pm

Best - Lancashire
Worst - black country

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by CleggHall » Mon May 31, 2021 6:43 pm

Worst - Bolton as by Fred Dibnah and Maxine Peake
Best - educated, gentle female Geordie, ditto Ulster female accent but not Arlene Foster!

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by aclaretinstevenage » Mon May 31, 2021 6:43 pm

Worst is strong Northern Ireland, just grates on me

Best is soft Southern Irish and Edinburgh burr.
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by bobinho » Mon May 31, 2021 6:47 pm

Stayingup wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:36 pm
Are there any cockneys left in London. Apart from Danny Dyer that is. Never hear one on the media channels. Hear London accents but they aren't cockney.
Yeah, everything is made up these days. Forget "yeah mate, i'm off darn the boozah for a laaaager".... it's now "we is goin down da spoons innit doh bruv innit"

All just made up shite...

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by minnieclaret » Mon May 31, 2021 6:55 pm

Best: Irish
Worst: Brummie as said before “how can 3 million people have a speech defect”?

In general I love accents. They define Britain.
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by bobinho » Mon May 31, 2021 6:58 pm

Im howling here Minnie.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by lakedistrictclaret » Mon May 31, 2021 7:01 pm

jetblackcat wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:27 pm
Which Derbyshire accent? There are many.
The one where people call me "me duck ".

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by AfloatinClaret » Mon May 31, 2021 7:14 pm

lakedistrictclaret wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 7:01 pm
The one where people call me "me duck ".
North Derbyshire then; it took a bit of getting used to when we lived in Chesterfield for a while, I didn't mind it so much from the lasses, but I wasn't keen on the lads calling me duck.

The Black Country and Brummie accents (Yam Yams and Yow Yows) seem to grate on everyone, but the other one that I dislike particularly is that of the ladies in County Durham, though I'm fine hearing it from the blokies.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Cirrus_Minor » Mon May 31, 2021 7:15 pm

Worst - Essex
Best - Lancy

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by claret2018 » Mon May 31, 2021 7:25 pm

Best is South Wales, worst is scouse which is tantamount to a disability

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by tim_noone » Mon May 31, 2021 7:35 pm

claret2018 wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 7:25 pm
Best is South Wales, worst is scouse which is tantamount to a disability
8-)

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Woodleyclaret » Mon May 31, 2021 7:43 pm

Oh eh la, what's wrong with Scouse?
But Brummie the worst followed by Wigan. Worst t' fait gewing? Its French/Welsh

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Longsider » Mon May 31, 2021 8:05 pm

I've lived in Birmingham now for 20 years. Still got my Burnley lilt but my wife and kids are all Brumies. To be honest the Birmingham accent isn't too bad, I think most people confuse a Birmingham accent with a Black Country accent. Walsall, Wolverhampton folk from the Black Country are very different sounding to a Brummie.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by dermotdermot » Mon May 31, 2021 8:13 pm

Best: Accentless, i.e. normal

Worst: Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Liverpool, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dundee,
Glasgow, Plymouth, Dorset, Norwich, N.Ireland, Ireland, Wales and wherever else the inhabitants can’t speak with a ‘normal’ accent.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by spadesclaret » Mon May 31, 2021 8:29 pm

Accents I like -

1. Republic of Ireland
2. Liverpool

Accents I don't like -

1. Birmingham
2. Essex

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Claret Toni » Mon May 31, 2021 8:37 pm

For me the West Cumbrian accent is the best.

Sadly quite a few I'm not keen on - like my own.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Claret_tinted » Mon May 31, 2021 8:41 pm

9:01am Monday - Friday @ 5pm: Welsh

Friday 5pm - 9:00am Monday: Scouse

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by ceborame » Mon May 31, 2021 8:54 pm

I like the scouse accent of Holly Johnson but the Jamie Carragher scouse is like fingernails down a blackboard.

Is there any reason for the difference?
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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by BleedingClaret » Mon May 31, 2021 8:56 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:35 pm
Still game...Glaswegian accent
Absolutely hilarious,Not to be missed
Yep absolutely love it

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by tim_noone » Mon May 31, 2021 8:57 pm

ceborame wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 8:54 pm
I like the scouse accent of Holly Johnson but the Jamie Carragher scouse is like fingernails down a blackboard.

Is there any reason for the difference?
You cant name names ... :? I agree on the Blackboard though.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Stayingup » Mon May 31, 2021 9:11 pm

bobinho wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:47 pm
Yeah, everything is made up these days. Forget "yeah mate, i'm off darn the boozah for a laaaager".... it's now "we is goin down da spoons innit doh bruv innit"

All just made up shite...
I didn't really mean that. Its a different accent or acents I was referring too.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by dermotdermot » Mon May 31, 2021 9:14 pm

It's not just the accents. It's the way people string words together. i.e. Steve McMananaman as a football pundit, ' he's went early'. This just grates with me. I think he was trying to say that the player had made his move too soon, But 'he's went early'. Now come on.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Volvoclaret » Mon May 31, 2021 9:17 pm

Best Northumbrian
Worst Blagburrrrrrrn

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Milltown1882 » Mon May 31, 2021 9:20 pm

Best - Geordie
Worst - Burnley by a country mile

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Right_winger » Mon May 31, 2021 9:24 pm

Best, Hebridean accent, southern Irish,

Worst, Scouse, urban London accent where they talk like “dat tings rollin wi da Mandem”

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by yTib » Mon May 31, 2021 9:24 pm

worst - danny dyer
best - sophia loren

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by SalisburyClaret » Mon May 31, 2021 9:44 pm

Best - West Country / Southern Irish
Worst - R P

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Billy Balfour » Mon May 31, 2021 10:00 pm

Received Pronunciation.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by jetblackcat » Mon May 31, 2021 10:03 pm

lakedistrictclaret wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 7:01 pm
The one where people call me "me duck ".
That would be Alfreton, Ripley and along the Erewash Valley. Further north around Chesterfield it’s just “duck” without the “me” which I don’t mind but” mah duck “ is strangely annoying.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Goalposts » 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

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Goalposts » Mon May 31, 2021 10:17 pm

Worst brummie - scouse or South London

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Wile E Coyote » 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.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by RingoMcCartney » Mon May 31, 2021 11:20 pm

Brummies always sound as though they're just about to yawn. Think about it


The Brum accent is the only British accent that is said to be in a minor key.

You didnt know that did you.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Mon May 31, 2021 11:31 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.
I don't think it's just London or Greater London, it's all over the place now. Crap music and Americanisms are to blame.

It's not accent related, but the amount of folk (usually under 30 years old) asking.... "can I get" at a shop/pub etc is getting beyond a joke.

You can't 'get' anything, because you don't f***ing work here.

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by BenWickes » Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:48 am

Scouse without doubt the worst. It really grates. Sad to say as a northerner I am not keen on any northern accent. Hate that hybrid accent in and around London 'innit like bruv'.
Having lived in Bucks. I find the accent's around Bucks, Oxfordshire, Berkshire most bearable.

Special word for the proper Wolverhampton accent. I met a bloke who spoke proper Yam Yam in Blackpool a few years back. They don't even arrange words in a sentence like everybody else. It went something like 'Ahhhh, wasn't it, lovely walk I had, weather am ahhh'. It grated after a while but for the comedic affect of winding up my Welsh mate it was bearable.

Nod to the accent up in Inverness and further north towards Thurso/Scrabster. Talked to a lovely wee lass at the ferry terminal with the loveliest accent. 'Ayee, yae need tae go doon tae that lane'

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by CaptJohn » Tue Jun 01, 2021 11:32 am

For me Female, softly spoken Southern Irish, East Coast Scottish and Geordie are the most easy on the ear.
The worst and most grating are Brummie, West Coast Scottish and Home Counties/Cockney.

I'm sorry but Lancashire folk sound a bit dumb :o

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Brunlea » Tue Jun 01, 2021 1:58 pm

Love the Nottinghamshire accent (e.g. Flip in Made in England) mainly because unlike most accents it is really hard to mimic.
Worst is got to be the London accent where you get a young lad from Kingston SW London trying to sound like he is from Kingston Jamaica!

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by Tribesmen » Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:06 pm

Best = female Donegal
Worst = Skanger inner city Dublin .

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Re: Worst/best accent

Post by aclaretinstevenage » Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:15 pm

yTib wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 9:24 pm
worst - danny dyer

I fink Danny Dyer is triffic on the Wawl now back on saturday evenings!! :lol: :lol:

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