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Florrie wrote: Gone are the days when the plum in cheek BBC accent was a measure of respectability and status in the UK :-2 .

Since then there are some georgous accents and dialects about which make easy listening, and conversation delightfull. :-6

My accent is definately southern Irish with a few elocutionary influences. I believe the Northern Irish Belfast accent toped the lot in a recent media poll and I personally love this accent alongside some of the soft Scottish dialects. :-4

What is FG members favourate accent
I love all the accents - British, Irish, Scottish. At this point, I would not be able to tell the difference between a Belfast person and someone from Southern Ireland. But then again - I'm not exactly in a spot to do so!

my sweetheart has the most beautiful, elegant, classy British accent, i could happily listen to him reading the telephone book! :-4 me, i sound a little bit Boston.

Have to admit that a Geordie (Newcastle) accent makes me go weak at the Knees :-4

Abbey I have just been there and back today (546 bloody Miles) but it was nice to have a chat with the geordies

Dang, i wish we had voice chat in here. It would be swell to hear all of your accents. Me, I have an urban Florida accent. Not dsure if it sounds too Southern. I only sound southern when I am trying to charm someone or I forget myself. I like the Sunderland accent, but it is freaking hard to understand.

I melt at the sound of an Aussie accent, an Irish accent being a very close second.

BabyRider wrote: I melt at the sound of an Aussie accent, an Irish accent being a very close second.


Canadian eh, and we do not say aboot we do say about

Personally give me the lovely Jamaican Accent any day.

ah weel see here pal it's just as weel we dinnae write the wae we a speak ken or we widnae be able tae unnerstaund yin anither. It's no jist the accents ken but a thae different dialects as weel. (that's dialects nae daleks)

I can't tell apart american accents, there must be quite distinct regional differences just like anywhere else.

New yorkers and the like seem ok with scottish accents-maybe its the pace of speech they seem to talk quite quickly themselves and are maybe used to many different accents anyway. West coasters always seem slightly shocked and look like rabbits caught in traffic lights. You can almost see the thought process as in what the TY^&* did he just say. You have to speak very slowly and take great care to enunciate every syllable clearly

I should explain we get a lot if american tourists, you can tell because they wear coats on nice balmy summer days and step out in front of traffic looking the wrong way.

GMC, i have a friend from Edinburgh & when we speak on the phone i get so embaressed at keep saying "pardon" (cos when she speaks its seems so fast & alien to me) half the time i havent a clue what she's saying, or what i'm agreeing to!! :wah:

Definately South African accent does it for me, everytime. Nothing even comes close to this, although Italian could be a good second? :-4

New Zealand accents are interresting and varied due to the English, Irish, Scottish backrounds of the residents. Scottish accents abound in the city of Dunedin. I really have a hard time understanding my brother in law who speaks as though he has a mouthfull of oatmeal. Most Americans can't distinguish between Autralian, English & New Zealand accents, but there is a difference, as you know. I have always found it interesting that so many with the Irish accent will finish a sentence on an uptik. It makes a statement sound like a question.

posted by abbey

GMC, i have a friend from Edinburgh & when we speak on the phone i get so embaressed at keep saying "pardon" (cos when she speaks its seems so fast & alien to me) half the time i havent a clue what she's saying, or what i'm agreeing to!!


Know what you mean, used to work in London i always felt like telling people to hurry up and finish the sentence.

gmc wrote: posted by abbey





Know what you mean, used to work in London i always felt like telling people to hurry up and finish the sentence. that's how i feel around a deep-south drawl, PLEASE spit it out!(Y'all)... and some new-yorkers grate on my ear like nails on a chalkboard! ...here in the south the locals born and bred think i speak strangely..."pahk the cah in hahvad yahd"!! LOL