YouGov Survey: Accents In The British Isles

[6Foot2]

Link: YouGov Survey: Accents in The British Isles

 

[synaesthesia]

I *hate* the Brummie accent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, not in a horrible way or anything. It makes me smile. The reason I hate it, is because it's infectious. If someone starts talking to me with a Brummie accent, I start to put on a Brummie twang myself for a good couple of days.

[Little-Miss]

I *hate* the Brummie accent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, not in a horrible way or anything. It makes me smile. The reason I hate it, is because it's infectious. If someone starts talking to me with a Brummie accent, I start to put on a Brummie twang myself for a good couple of days.

 

How d'ya think I feel, roight?!

 

Apparently mine is noticeable after a couple of drinks. People ask me where I'm from, I tell them and they always seem to go "yeeaahhh, I thought I noticed a twang in there"..

[machin05]

No option for Black Country - vastly different from Brummie. If there's one thing all us Wulfrunians can't stand it's being mistaken for, or categorised as, Brummies!

 

The Birmingham accent is really irritating, but good old Black Country spaeke is charming, witty and full of character

[FN-GM]

Georide has got to be number 1!

[localzuk]

My accent is "regional jumble". Luckily. Begone fowl Brummie accent!!

 

I'm surprised they've not included any of the NW accents though, as they're quite popular!

[synaesthesia]

No option for Black Country - vastly different from Brummie. If there's one thing all us Wulfrunians can't stand it's being mistaken for, or categorised as, Brummies!

 

The Birmingham accent is really irritating, but good old Black Country spaeke is charming, witty and full of character

 

You may hate it, but at least you won't beat the living daylights out of someone for mistaking it! Unlikely, for example, calling someone from Middlesborough a Geordie!

[Little-Miss]

No option for Black Country - vastly different from Brummie. If there's one thing all us Wulfrunians can't stand it's being mistaken for, or categorised as, Brummies!

 

The Birmingham accent is really irritating, but good old Black Country spaeke is charming, witty and full of character

 

Oof! We'll have to agree to disagree on that one....

Edited December 12, 2014 by Little-Miss

[Oaktech]

The further south you go the worse things get, same applies to accents.

 

As someone who is actually within sight of the English Channel I will respectfully disagree!

[localzuk]

As someone who is actually within sight of the English Channel I will respectfully disagree!

 

You're basically French then!

[machin05]

Oof! Well have to agree to disagree on that one....

 

[Oaktech]

You're basically French then!

 

Yup... My family surname came over with William the conqueror. I guess that makes me a 'dirty immigrant'.

[witch]

Yup... My family surname came over with William the conqueror. I guess that makes me a 'dirty immigrant'.

 

Speaking as someone who is basically a Celt - yes, you are - go back home!!

[hardtailstar]

The further south you go the worse things get, same applies to accents.

 

The further south you go the better it gets, no high pitched irritating or thick accents.

 

Proper English speakers and understandable!

[DalekSec]

Im a country lad but I have a South African accent (but I have no connection to anything to do with south Africa), also Welsh is my personally favourite with scouse being the worst

[Arreks]

I sound quite cockney after a couple of drinks, before that I sound 'posh'

[HTCPCP]

I quite like the Brummie accent, and the valleys accent and yet I don't like the accent in North Wales very much though.

[synaesthesia]

The only accent I truly dislike is south USA. Texas mostly. Absolutely can't stand it.

[6Foot2]

My accent would fall into 'Received Pronunciation" [i do not sound Cockney] I dislike my own voice when I hear a recording of it as it sounds much more nasal and guttural when recorded than my recollection of it.

 

Not an accent thing I know but I really hope I sound sound like that!

[Andrew_C]

Yup... My family surname came over with William the Bastard.

Fixed that for you.

 

 

And for a foul accent (apart from Texas, and I lived 3 years there) Duudliiiiiy!

Edited December 12, 2014 by Andrew_C

[SovietRussia]

Mid Wales - no accent

[LosOjos]

And for a foul accent (apart from Texas, and I lived 3 years there) Duudliiiiiy!

 

Dudley (and parts of Tipton) is beyond an accent, it's like a foreign language! I'm from Wolverhampton, just a couple of miles down the road from Dudley, and I really struggle to understand people from there at times. My aunt's husband has a really thick Dudley accent; I don't think I've ever managed to hold a conversation with him because I genuinely have no idea what he's talking about!

[Garacesh]

Ooh-err it's all kicking off in this thread, isn't it?

 

I reckon have the standard, common Mancunian accent, but I'd like to think I have much broader vocabulary and set of language skills than your typical Mancunian trollop, and I do tend to pronounce my words properly, too (a typical annoyance springing to mind is the mooks that pronounce 'thought' as 'fort', etcetera)

[witch]

Mid Wales - no accent

 

No accent? Who are you trying to kid?

Most of my family come from Newtown in Powys and they certainly DO have an accent - not the harsh sound of the valleys or the soft North Welsh lilt but somewhere in between.

Me? I speak proper Buckinghamshire home counties RP