What's your favourite UK accent?

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YeeeepersJeeepers@reddit

Northern Irish. Some find it harsh but I bloody love it... Sadly I live in the South West so all I ever hear is Bristolian or people from Swindon pretending to be cockney.

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eelsemaj99@reddit

you obviously don’t live in the south west then

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eelsemaj99@reddit

Swindon isn’t in the SW and bristolian is basically on the boundary

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semiphonic@reddit

Geordie is the accent for me I also live in the South West, all I ever hear is scousers

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Derezzed87@reddit

Any time i call up a customer service like and get put through to a geordie woman, I feel a little bit happy. Same with Scouse. Geordies and Scousers have really nice phone voices.

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Open-Apartment-4937@reddit

I’m a Geordie and I think we sound thick 😂

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Objective-Manner7430@reddit

Nah, it’s an Essex accent that make people sound dumb AF 😬

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Open-Apartment-4937@reddit

I can’t actually deny that, Geordies sound incredibly eloquent compared to Essexes 😅

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Tennonboy@reddit

Only if your called Cheryl, even Ant & Dec sound somewhat literate compared to Mrs Tweedy

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YeeeepersJeeepers@reddit

Brummies. I forgot the Brummies... Where I live is full of them in the summer...

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Tennonboy@reddit

Worked with loads of brummies. Best was a tall Chinese guy called Eric. When he came out with a Broad brummie accent, everyone smiled

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I'm a fan of the ~Northern Irish accent of the "Loose Cannon Veteran" character as voiced by Emma Ballantine in Warhammer 40K: Darktide https://youtu.be/xtkIDUPep-k?si=SRZjz3Yr0q16TX02 https://youtu.be/ion9zu2U4as?si=27RPnarccO--TYCg Pretty sure a real Northern Irish person could pick it apart, but it sounds good.

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Sharp-Location-453@reddit

Real NI person here - it's bad. It's more a ROI accent

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PanNationalistFront@reddit

Which accent in NI? There’s about 5 in Co.Down alone.

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YeeeepersJeeepers@reddit

Mates wife is from Belfast and I love her accent. I'm no expert and doubt I could tell the difference between accents across NI without paying some serious attention.

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GerryAdamsesBeard@reddit

Hour in the power shower

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PanNationalistFront@reddit

Belfast itself has a few accents too ranging from that of the Kneecap boys to Van Morrison. West of the city can be a bit jarring even as a local.

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YeeeepersJeeepers@reddit

I've asked the question and she's from east Belfast - not sure if that means anything to you but that's the accent I like!

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PanNationalistFront@reddit

Haha my initial thoughts were “if someone likes a Belfast accent, it’s most likely East”

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orange_assburger@reddit

Of the two most prominent accents are we talking Belfast or Derry accent? Or are you thinking of another?

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YeeeepersJeeepers@reddit

Belfast everytime

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Acrobatic-Shirt8540@reddit

Jesus Christ. I'm married to a nordy and thank fuck her accent is pretty mild because some of them are like nails down a blackboard.

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clickyclicky456@reddit

Northern Irish for sure, but I'm biased because that's where my husband is from. There's a wide variety of accents even across NI though, I'm particularly partial to a County Down (Cointy Doin) accent. Some of his relatives I really struggle to understand...

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Open_Bumblebee_3033@reddit

Mine from Durham

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amenizm89@reddit

Scouse

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Clean-Noise8197@reddit

Mine

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zig131@reddit

I had a lecturer who was from yorkshire, had lived in London for a while, and was then living in Plymouth. Had a slightly kinda toned down yorkshire accent that sounded really nice.

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SunUsual550@reddit

My family are all from North Yorkshire and I'm still here but my brother moved to Cheltenham about 15 years ago. His accent has totally gone, the only trace that shows him as a northerner is that he doesn't pronounce "bath" as barth. When he says "no" it sounds like nehw. Makes me wince.

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Lunaspoona@reddit

As someone with a Yorkshire accent that lived in Plymouth for a bit, I find this comforting as I thought my accent was weird lol In Plymouth they would take the piss out of me being a northerner, I'd go home and they'd take the piss saying I'd started speaking like a janner ha

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MiserableBritGirl@reddit

I’m a janner, living in Derbyshire and get the piss taken out of me wherever I am. I can’t win.

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zig131@reddit

I like the Janner accent too. The word "dirty" just sounds better in that accent 😁. I also slip into it sometimes for "right", "alright", and "proper".

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JamOverCream@reddit

Both my brothers have very strong Janner accents. It confuses the hell out of my kids whenever we visit, especially as I don’t have it, nor do my parents.

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Dramatic-Ad-5661@reddit (OP)

Mine is a soft accent also in comparison to some here I've been told.

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KonkeyDongPrime@reddit

Road man

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Did_OJ_Simpson_do_it@reddit

Man’s be teefing bare creps from da Tottenham Mandem, no long ting.

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KJC1962@reddit

That's 3rd world speak not UK speak...

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Did_OJ_Simpson_do_it@reddit

Not wrong tbf

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Dramatic-Ad-5661@reddit (OP)

Yes cuz

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trevpr1@reddit

There is a Radio 3 presenter Sarah Moire-Pietsche ( probably spelt her name wrong) who has the most luxurious neutral home counties accent. She's on at 10pm most evenings.

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MercianRaider@reddit

Northern Irish.

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pondribertion@reddit

Geordie is my ans-a. I'll get on me mort-da-scoot-da and travel the cunt-ry after I've reedid the pant-ry for me butt-da.

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Rotating_Saturn@reddit

Anything posh and upperclass. It sounds so elegant, and graceful. Could live around that all day.

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dgreen1415@reddit

Welsh

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fxshnchxps@reddit

Scottish, closely followed by that posh boy accent (Hugh Laurie) 🤤

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No-Crazy4683@reddit

I live in the east Midlands but my family originate from the west Midlands, when I hear someone with a brummie or black country accent it feels like home and family. Ow am ya?

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Tristanslav77@reddit

I've always considered a bristolian/west country accent to be really attractive in women. (I'm from sarf laandan)

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androgynousandroid@reddit

Sean Bean.

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Grouchy-Reflection97@reddit

Orkney, Shetland, and all the other little islands where the accent is a blend of Scottish and Scandinavian. Islander school mate of mine's dad looked exactly how I'd imagined a Viking would have looked. Sort of like a redheaded Brian Blessed, if Brian Blessed was 6ft 5 and weirdly hot.

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DrMacAndDog@reddit

The Hebridean accent is wonderful. Slow and carefully, though unusually articulated, as if these words of English were a curiosity to them.

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D3M0NArcade@reddit

English words *are* a curiosity to the Hebrideans. Most Scots don't even understand Islanders...

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Grouchy-Reflection97@reddit

Back in the 90's, one of my second cousins moved from Edinburgh to one of the most remote islands, taking his wife and teenage kids with him. I think the divorce papers landed in his lap within six months, lol. He stayed there on his own, as he vibed with the locals, nature, all that good stuff. It's not exactly an ideal place for most 'worldly mainlanders', though. My grandma told me 'oh, the teacher from the school has retired, you should apply' (I was a trainee teacher at the time). Singular teacher, singular school. It all sounded a bit too Wicker Man to younger me, but looking back, I wish I'd gone for it.. Pretty much zero competition for a job for life, and more fresh air than you can shake a stick at.

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D3M0NArcade@reddit

Never understood why people seem to shake sticks at stuff so much...

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Klarabela@reddit

Just watching the traitors. Stephen is from the Isle of Lewis, he has a gorgeous accent

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Acceptable-Sentence@reddit

Brian blessed is weirdly hot

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Technical-Regret1495@reddit

He's certainly weird. But talented

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Pretty_Composer_2140@reddit

Didn't he climb everest and sh!!t himself

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Technical-Regret1495@reddit

Went to see him at a church performance in Grantham. Lots of F ING and Jeffing. Yes Everest and Gordon's Alive.

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HowToCatchAButterfly@reddit

They must mean as opposed to brain blessed's more obvious hotness

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

This. The accents in Shetland (which I know are from different regions of Scotland, and only one actor is from the islands) are my absolute favourite.

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Easy_Drama1819@reddit

The Orkney accent is lovely.Reminds me of my dear departed Uncle Billy, who hailed from Kirkwall.

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_gothick@reddit

Yeah. This is about 75% of my reason for watching *Shetland*.

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swapacoinforafish@reddit

I love a Scottish accent, scouse is actually my least favourite!

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Obvious-Water569@reddit

I can tell you my ***least*** favourite... Essex. As for favourite, probably Glsgow, especially when they get really mad.

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Reemixt@reddit

As an English man it’s Glasgow for me. It’s comical yet sincere. Expressive and honest.

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DeniseGunn@reddit

My late husband was from the Rhondda valley in South Wales. His accent made me melt 🥰

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MissKLO@reddit

Black country 😎

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Telegramsam_mainman@reddit

New Road

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Beginning_Tour_9320@reddit

Cor bate it.

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Englishbirdy@reddit

Yam saft yam am.

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MissKLO@reddit

I think you’ll find its… Yam saft yow am

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Englishbirdy@reddit

Apologies. My Dudley is rusty.

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Fluffy_Lemon_1487@reddit

You can get a cream for that.

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Beginning_Tour_9320@reddit

Saft as a brush

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Circumzenithal@reddit

Mine too. I could listen to Liz Berry all day.

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widdrjb@reddit

I was at a training session given by a yamyam and I had to translate him on the fly for the Poles and Lithuanians.

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ElfBlossom17@reddit

Any Scottish accent Northern Irish Yorkshire Birmingham male only South Wales

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HiPoppet@reddit

I feel like home when I hear the Yorkshire accent (I’ve never been to Yorkshire).

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msrbelfast@reddit

Belfast 😀

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Beginning_Tour_9320@reddit

I’m an old fart from the Black Country and I can remember when Welsh accents were almost as despised as my own. Now a lot of folks love it. (Which is great btw) Serious question- any theories on how this change happened? Cerys Matthew’s perhaps? Or was it something to do with Welsh rugby success? To my mind appreciation of Welsh accents and culture seems to have increased a lot since the turn of the century but I can’t put my finger on what the catalyst was. Genuinely interested.

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Sage-Freke-@reddit

Well, I still get the piss taken out of me, who is now on the south coast and have pretty much entirely lost my west mids accent (apart from when I’m drunk or when I don’t say “grars” instead of “grass”. Then people say I’m northern). And I’m not surprised to see the only people on here who say they like the accent is that they think it’s hilarious. It’s a shame IMO.

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Beginning_Tour_9320@reddit

Where I am in Brixham it’s all people from the Midlands. My accent had pretty much disappeared after twenty years in London but now it’s back as it’s all I seem to hear around here. We’ve become an invasive species in Torbay. 😂

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Sage-Freke-@reddit

That’s interesting. I might go and see what it’s like 😄

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glitterstateofmind@reddit

Gavin and Stacey perhaps?

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Beginning_Tour_9320@reddit

Ah, I forgot that. Good call!

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SilentDrapeRunner11@reddit

Manchester

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Son-Of-Sloth@reddit

Scouse is lovely. Definitely Scouse.

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Playful-Marketing320@reddit

Don’t know why people say Yorkshire when it’s quite harsh. Lancashire/Geordie/Scottish is my fave (not Glasgow though sorry)

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ShoestringJane@reddit

Yorkshire is nice and I like the Edinburgh accent. I’m from Essex and not a fan of the London / south Essex accent. The old Essex accent is softer and more of a burr, and still exists where I am in north Essex.

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UsefulBritishperson@reddit

Cockney

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slothliketendencies@reddit

Dudley 👌

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itsadrianastinga@reddit

Belfast 😭😭❤️❤️

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LargeSale8354@reddit

Georgia. Various Scottish accents. Devon & Cornwall.

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AnneThisaway@reddit

Scouse or Geordie

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_ShredBundy@reddit

Whenever I visit a city outside of Liverpool (even Manchester!!), I always find the girls love Scouse accents, and the lads hate it. Always wondered if some lads hate it as a jealousy thing 🤔

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Automatic_Banana5780@reddit

Manchester

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Erinawful@reddit

Lancashire, Chorley, like Joseph Gilguns. Super honest, warm and charming type of accent. I'm Welsh and I've always disliked my accent, I think welsh is generally a bit marmite.

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Firstpoet@reddit

Cockney/ working class London. Almost disappeared.

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Linusami@reddit

Welsh for me. (Yorkshire born)

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ConflictOfEvidence@reddit

Yorkshire for me (Welsh born).

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Linusami@reddit

😊

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SirAccomplished7804@reddit

Thats the worst. I grew up there but my grandparents’ generation looked down upon it. They made sure we spoke well, not posh but definitely not Scouse. Probably middle-class Lancashire would best describe it. I was picked on at school because of this, but this just made me even more determined not talk like this. I can still imitate it perfectly though I haven’t lived there for 50 years. We tend to do it as a family joke to take the piss Liverpool people can be warm and friendly and very caring, they can also be the opposite and be vicious and thug like.

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Physical-Crow-2154@reddit

I like the posh southern accents 🥰

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flippertyflip@reddit

Glaswegian. Or any Northern Irish. Preferably female.

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Cosmic-Hippos@reddit

I'm from Glasgow, lived in Scunthorpe, Liverpool, but my fav dialect is Birmingham (brummy accent) it's wonderful.

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FanNarrow1969@reddit

A Welsh accent or West Country

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One-Comedian2560@reddit

These are the two worst for me, I think

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WackyAndCorny@reddit

Gert lush my luvver.

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petrolstationpicnic@reddit

What kind of Welsh accent? There’s fucking loads of em. People in Wrexham sound more scouse than Welsh to me and I’m from Cardiff. Even Newport & Cardiff are hugely different and they’re 20 minutes apart!

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athenais-l-d-a@reddit

I love the Scottish accent, Edinburgh especially. Give me a Scottish man amy time!!

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heretolurk24@reddit

West Country!

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dontbeadiq@reddit

Lots of good ones. Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Scouse, Geordie, Bristolian. Most of them have a charm. Birmingham and Manchester are terrible.

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New_Sky9732@reddit

Scouse or Geordie

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WillowDaniRosenberg@reddit

Liverpudlian

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Gold-Mine-Trash@reddit

Pakistani Glaswegian.

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TimetravellingElf@reddit

West country or the Welsh vallys

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FairGur6838@reddit

Definitely not Liverpool. Not used for call centres any more as they operatives sound as if they are not sincere and are likely to rip you off.

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imjedipal@reddit

Yorkshire

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gerhardsymons@reddit

I'm a Londoner with a bland RP accent. I go weak at the knees for a Lancastrian accent.

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Immorality37@reddit

Love the Geordie accent, Brummie is good too.

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BeaksFalcone@reddit

Scottish men are sexy,I like the London slang too

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dontshootthepianist1@reddit

scottish

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Salt-Alarm-9669@reddit

Geordie accents (and people) always god, I do like a Scottish accent Glasgow and west of there.

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beks78@reddit

I have a bit of a posh Manchester accent but I really love hearing Geordie. Not enough to watch Geordie Shore though! I was at an Iggy Pop concert last year and I got to chatting about music with this Geordie Gentleman and honestly it made me melt!

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Exact-Character313@reddit

Anybody not saying Irish on a girl is wrong

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StrawberryFairytale@reddit

Northern English is hot, but only since I started watching Cristopher Eccleston as Dr Who

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jlelvidge@reddit

Barnsley

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SarahL1990@reddit

I'm from Liverpool and partial to a Scottish accent. Particularly Glaswegian, thanks to Billy Connolly.

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Fun_Cheesecake_7684@reddit

Geordie. It's so comforting!

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Maz-Wye@reddit

"Comforting"?? Geordie Accent is INCOMPREHENSIBLE!! Get a Geordie Drunk and its Sound NOT Speech

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when_music_hits@reddit

I used to work with a Scottish fella who was unintelligible at the best of times...get him drunk and it was the best mix of sound and laughter, doesnt matter what he was saying, it was a positive and happy sound..storming Norman the absolute beltah

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Maz-Wye@reddit

Do You know which part of Scotland he was from?? The Only time I cant understand Scots folk is when they use uniquely Scottish terms eg "Bawbag" apparently a mild insult

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when_music_hits@reddit

Hi! I couldn't remember but I'd assume it was somewhere that didn't require people outside his own area to understand because it literally was a flowing noise punctuated with laughter, I just couldn't tell where one word ended, and the next began. Really interested flow! I'd stare at his barely moving lips hoping that might be a clue but we got our job done regardless and he was fun to be around.

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Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit

An elderly Geordie one tried to tell me The Rope Broke. I had to ask his daughter what he had said!

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TheGorgieGeorgie7492@reddit

I remember back in the day, the Orange call centre was based in the North East. You would call them, blood boiling, steam coming out of your ears, ready to give them what for....and then you'd hear the accent. I'd like to think Orange chose the North East for that very reason.

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Spillsy68@reddit

Why aye, pet. Whaaats a mitter wiv ya phorn?

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FranScan1997@reddit

Call centres do - it’s because apparently our accent is very friendly. Call centres are the biggest employer after the NHS around here!

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SelectTrash@reddit

The staff on the gambling site Tombola are all from around that area. I have an uncle who lives at Walls End, but he's from Newcastle. He came to live with my aunt here for a bit, but then they moved back up north. His accent was so thick we had to ask him to repeat everything, and my dad has a thick Irish accent (we’re from just north of Cork), so you can imagine the struggle

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FranScan1997@reddit

Ha, Wallsend can have very thick accents. My grandad was from there :)

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Aggravating-Day-2864@reddit

The futures bright...the futures geordie

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GeordieAl@reddit

With all the fake tan in the city, The Geordies Bright, the Geordies Orange I swear Trump saw an episode of Geordie Shore and thought “I like that look!” But then Trump being trump he just had to take it too far

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GeordieAl@reddit

I remember back in the day when Orange was Rabbit and there was signs outside every newsagents and corner store advertising that it was a rabbit base station!

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MrsKToBe@reddit

My first full time job when I was 18 was there..

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xGREENxEYEx@reddit

Fun fact: at least a couple years ago at least. They still had a very small team in the EE call centre dealing with orange customers who have refused to switch in Newcastle 😅

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OldSock4075@reddit

My mum used to love having to get tech support from Sage who did her payroll software. Based in the toon.

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ComfortableBuffalo57@reddit

As the Canadian child of Geordie parents my accent and vocabulary are occasionally bewildering to folks

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GiovanniVanBroekhoes@reddit

"Wey aye, what is that all aboot eh Marra!"

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ComfortableBuffalo57@reddit

That’s kind of how it goes, actually. I’m told “Wheel Snipe Celly” sounds bizarre in Novocastrian

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FranScan1997@reddit

Ha, I recently met a Canadian lady with Geordie parents. She’d actually moved to Newcastle permanently which I thought was nice

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TeHNeutral@reddit

Definitely prefer it to a mackem

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Fun_Cheesecake_7684@reddit

I don't know, I've got a soft spot for the makems and the takems

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when_music_hits@reddit

I couldn't tell one from the other, but it always amazed me how much disgust was aimed at the filthy radgee mackems for no apparent reason.

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when_music_hits@reddit

*spit*

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KillarneyRoad@reddit

Aye pet

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Another_rainy_day@reddit

I’m a proper Londoner and got married to a Geordie. I get to hear it every day ❤️

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uncloseted_anxiety@reddit

Saaaaame. Sting’s ‘The Last Ship’ is one of my favorite albums for this reason.

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UpstairsLocal3378@reddit

South wales or Bristol I reckon

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Littleleicesterfoxy@reddit

I would say me own but I’ve had an evening of Scandinavians laughing at how I pronounce the letter u so perhaps not at the moment.

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Halfdanr_H@reddit

I’m from the northeast of England. Years ago I worked in a supermarket in London, where some regular Norwegian, Swedish and German expat customers would specifically come and find me to ask me questions if they needed anything, because they told me I was the easiest English speaker for them to understand. We struck up a very good rapport and even though I left that place years ago, I’ve never forgotten it.

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Tennonboy@reddit

When I hear s scouse accent, I know I'm about to hear something funny or be conned out of my money

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Boulder_Brock@reddit

I've heard there maybe fraud going on inside your bank account. If you give me your card details, expiry date, security code, postcode, date of birth and mother's maiden name, I can have a look for you. Not all scousers will con you out of money, they are the out of towners not to be confused with a real scouser.

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Tennonboy@reddit

I've some good mates who are proud to be true scouser's and i'd give my last shilling to any of them. Especially as they've not been legal tender since the 70's 😁

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Boulder_Brock@reddit

Im a true scouser, wouldn't say I'm proud of this city anymore too many undercover racists now and out of towners posing as scousers

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InterestedObserver48@reddit

Scottish or Geordie from a female

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Difficult_Bad1064@reddit

Received pronunciation. The only one everyone can understand.

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Halfdanr_H@reddit

To me that accent has always sounded quite vapid, though I suppose that’s sort of the point of Received Pronunciation

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Thurad@reddit

The more extreme the accent is the worse it sounds to me. But at a middling level quite a few of them sound great. There was a Liverpudlian girl on my Uni course and she had the most beautiful sing-song accent, her singing a lullaby would have put me straight to sleep.

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White_Immigrant@reddit

Cornish by a mile.

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LukeLikesReddit@reddit

A proper RP accent and not the shit everyone puts on.

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zakujanai@reddit

Where are you from that you think people are faking their accents??

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LukeLikesReddit@reddit

From where the accent is from, and ive seen countless people try it over Uni/Corporate and it just feels so forced. They inflect the wrong parts just so slightly.

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SaveMeWakeMeUp@reddit

So you're saying people "fake it?" In what way?

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The_Molemans_bawbag@reddit

Pitmatic

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FranScan1997@reddit

My partner’s grandad spoke pitmatic. It’s so rare to hear it now!

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The_Molemans_bawbag@reddit

My dad is, and grandad was from the Ashington/Blyth area. My grandad could tell what street you were from based on your accent. It still drives my dad nuts that people think he's a geordie, he's given up on it.

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FranScan1997@reddit

That’s so interesting bc I think most south east northumbrians would now call themselves Geordies!

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Business_Advance_569@reddit

I'm a Londoner - my fave is Geordie

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Grass_Hurts@reddit

I didn’t use to like the Northumberland/Newcastle accents, but they are among my favourites now.

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TheJudge53@reddit

Welsh is such a musical accent

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MrsNomad-Scott-bum@reddit

I absolutely love scouse and Northern Irish accent

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Specialist-Piccolo41@reddit

Geordie

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ThickTadpole3742@reddit

Glaswegian, Yorkshire (I'm from Essex!)

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IndividualSound5365@reddit

Dublin and Glasgow accents have me weak at the knees lol!

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thewearisomeMachine@reddit

Whichever that Scouse-adjacent one is where they pronounce poor as ‘pooer’ and pork as ‘pooerk’

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SerialHatTheif@reddit

You'd love the Manx accent then. As the top comment on this video says, Manx is basically a scouser trying to do an Irish accent (which makes sense because the isle of man is between Liverpool and Ireland)

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SirUncleBadTouch@reddit

Those pronunciations suggest Barnsley/other parts of South Yorkshire, not scouse-adjacent..

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thewearisomeMachine@reddit

Good to know, thanks!

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Dramatic-Ad-5661@reddit (OP)

Bolton?

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Gullible_Fan4427@reddit

Bristolian and Welsh accents! I also am a firm believer that all news should be read in a Welsh accent. Makes even the worst news sound not so bad!

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GreatChaosFudge@reddit

Yeah, we tried that. Didn’t work out.

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OMITN@reddit

I love all accents. Though I’m a public school southerner, I’ve lived in the north for had my life. Particular favourites up here are: south Liverpool (not as harsh as some scouse accents) and Wigan. Wigan in particular has the benefit of coming with its own dialect, which should’ve protected at all costs. Further afield, Birmingham and the West Midlands. Those accents have a real sense of being rooted deep in the earth.

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via_aesthetic@reddit

This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone not from Liverpool recognise the difference between the north and south Liverpool accents here. I grew up in Wavertree/ Toxteth, and have now lived in London for two years, so I’m always having to explain to people why my accent isn’t as strong as they expect it to be.

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FranScan1997@reddit

I have a friend from Wigan and I love their accent, it’s great

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CynicalRecidivist@reddit

English spoken with a Welsh accent. I love it!

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Prestigious_Sand1978@reddit

It used to be Geordie until Vicky Patterson.

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DancingSpacePenguin@reddit

Irish wins. Always.

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Accomplished_Fix5702@reddit

I'm from the eastern edge of London/Essex border area. It's not a lyrical accent for sure, neither are most genuine London accents, if you can find one. I like soft Scottish best....like Carol Kirkwood... Not Glaswegian Soft southern Irish is nice .... like Terry Wogan (that's not strictly in UK though, and his was probably softened further at the BBC) Also smaller town Lancashire, Rochdale. Oldham, certainly not Liverpool. Manchester is ok. Suffolk and Norfolk are nice where the real local accent persists In the North East the softer accents of Westside, and Teeside are easier on the ear than Geordie, but Geordie is ok too. I active in East Sussex and have done for 40 years. There are people from all over the place here. In all that time I've only known about 4 old people who were born here who have a proper East Sussex accent, which is very rural./agricultural sounding. It's been lost as a result of TV and the migration away from London. I don't think it would be easy to pinpoint someone now as being from East Sussex from their accent.

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Opening-Bird5469@reddit

Well, I can honestly I never expected my little old Oldhamish to appear on a Reddit thread about the best uk accents 😂

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letmegetmycardigan@reddit

West Country! Ooh aar

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CthulhusEvilTwin@reddit

South Welsh accent. I love that accent. Something very melodic about it.

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CompleteClock-@reddit

Geordie!! (i’m also from Yorkshire)

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testdasi@reddit

Liverpool just because of John Bishop.

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vixenlion@reddit

Bolton

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SatchSaysPlay@reddit

Goodness me, you can't be serious? Scouse is the absolute worst of the worst, they all sound special in a not so positive kind of way

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Kind_Shift_8121@reddit

I just love that we have so many and they are all so distinct.

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closecharge715@reddit

Brummie. But I am a Brummie.

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Whats-Inna-Name@reddit

I have a friend who is Brum, but he's been daan saarf for a long time so he only really has an accent when he's drunk. He is also extremely clever so I wait until he's drunk and get him to tell me about Quantum physics 😂 I absolutely love it - it's a hilarious way to learn stuff.

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closecharge715@reddit

I love that! I’m the opposite of your friend - born in brum, grew up down south and been back here for 20 years. I have a southern accent that turns Brum intermittently! And I don’t know Quantum Physics…

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olivia-tomato@reddit

Llanelli ( South Wales) hilarious accent but so friendly

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PurplePlodder1945@reddit

Irish (so sexy). Followed by Geordie. I’m from south Wales and hate ours (north is good though)

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CharmingImportance22@reddit

Yam yam. It's so friendly!

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mowgs1946@reddit

West mids South west Both just make me smile. I can't be angry at them.

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CMDoet@reddit

I like Lancashire because it reminds me of family. I grew up in the Midlands but remember visiting and my large family all talking talking talking. My unrefined ear can't tell the difference between Chorley and anywhere else in Lancashire so it all sounds good to me.

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TSC-99@reddit

Anything north east 💖

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RomansDoForUs@reddit

A strong yorkshire or Lancashire accent

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TheGeordieGal@reddit

Has anyone specified Sheffield yet? I just to watch things with Sean Bean in just to hear his accent lol.

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2ManySpliffs@reddit

1. South Wales 2. East Lancashire 3. Scottish highlands

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Tennonboy@reddit

Welsh

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francisdavey@reddit

My favourite accent as well. My parents both had late RP/SSB accents: my father studiously removed his Great Yarmouth accent to sound more educated and mum was from a fairly upper class RAF family and lived in many places so had no real trace of a local accent. I spoke pretty much as they did but people around me when I grew up (in Merseyside) spoke Scouse, so it makes me feel like home. The Great Yarmouth accent comes second for similar reasons.

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Icy_Consideration409@reddit

Glasgow.

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LameFossil@reddit

Welsh

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Puzzled-Horse279@reddit

MLE accents all of its variations. Tho I kinda find some northern accents attractive I cant lie

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FranScan1997@reddit

As a Geordie, I love Northumbrian accents - the further up you go, you get what sounds like a Scottish-Geordie hybrid and it’s wonderful.

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RazzmatazzGlad9940@reddit

Geordie. Scouse is one of my least favourite.

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FranScan1997@reddit

Is your name a pulp reference?

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Forgetful8nine@reddit

I was at college with a couple of girls from Dundee. Honestly, they could read a phonebook out to me and I'd be in love. Also sailed with a Derry Girl once - lovely lass. If she got annoyed at something, everything sounded like a threat. Naturally, we, as her shipmates, did everything we could to wind her up. She took it in good humour and gave as good as she got.

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Limp_Chemical9814@reddit

Cornish

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YouCantArgueWithThis@reddit

Edinburgh

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D3M0NArcade@reddit

Everything north of Manchester, honestly. They all have their charms. Except the Manc accent. I'm from that region and hate it...

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wawawawpoop@reddit

Northleach specifically

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soopertyke@reddit

I adore a soft sing-song Welsh accent on a woman

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Acrobatic-Shirt8540@reddit

I do love a south Wales accent. Other than that it'd be Shetland or the Ooter Hebrides.

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Technical-Regret1495@reddit

Alice Eve now she sounds lovely as does Kate Beckinsale. Whatever those accents are ❤️

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Accurate-Wall4634@reddit

Geordie!

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when_music_hits@reddit

Tin tin tin! I quite like southern Irish if it's from a girl, and northern Irish from a guy, they just seem to suit to my naive mind.

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AnxiousAppointment70@reddit

I love them all! Accents are great and make me feel the world isn't yet too homogenised.

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SalemBean666@reddit

Anything northern (I’m northern) but I find it such a fun diverse accent

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Justan0therthrow4way@reddit

I like most of them. I’m a bit of a sucker for northern England and Scottish (especially Glasgow)

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MarkWrenn74@reddit

Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Illustrious-Divide95@reddit

I love the West Coast Scottish accent. Gorgeous

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MarkWrenn74@reddit

“Ya luv a bit o' ra Pa'er” (You love a bit of the Patter)

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Tricky-Reporter-5246@reddit

Any that isn't Scouse

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bubbagrub@reddit

I think the accent of the Isle of Lewis might be seeing a surge in popularity at the moment...

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Klarabela@reddit

It is gorgeous, I just commented up thread about him

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mewikime@reddit

Geordie melts me

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EchidnaOk7537@reddit

I love the Yorkshire accent

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Funny-Force-3658@reddit

Geordie. I loved the accent when I first moved here 23 years ago. I have 3 grown Geordie kids now.

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Cushlamachree@reddit

Yorkshire for sure, always loved it and then ended up marrying a Bradford man! Closely followed by NI. I'm from the west of Ireland, and when I was younger I threw a bitch fit at my parents for not being from Armagh and not having the accent. Seems like I have a thing for the north of places!

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Oryxx71@reddit

Newcastle / North East.

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No-Style8510@reddit

I haven’t found my accent here yet :(

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Major_Bahoobage@reddit

Definitely a scouser

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SilverellaUK@reddit

South Wales.

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Puzzled-Job9556@reddit

Mackem

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ComfortableBuffalo57@reddit

Haha. Geordie here and I’m both supportive and slightly hurt

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Puzzled-Job9556@reddit

Tbf, I'm a sunderland fan from my grandad (gateshead though) - live nowhere near but love the northeast and the accent, brings back great memories.

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booers79@reddit

Northern Irish. It’s grand, so it is.

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WitchyWoo9@reddit

Scouse, I worked in Liverpool for years and love the accent

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el_disko@reddit

As someone with a standard Southern accent I like any that aren’t my own though Mancunian, Liverpudlian, and Scottish in particular are my favourites.

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oooohshinythingy@reddit

Irish, Scottish

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RaisinHorror1440@reddit

Irish isn't a UK accent.

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oooohshinythingy@reddit

Hmm, isn’t it the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland then? 🤔

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RaisinHorror1440@reddit

Northern Irish, is harsher than Irish. But two different things.

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oooohshinythingy@reddit

It’s still Irish. West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire sound totally different but it’s still Yorkshire 🙄

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RaisinHorror1440@reddit

What next Australian and New Zealander have the same accent?

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Miserable-Rub-4053@reddit

*Northern* Irish is

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Afraid-Priority-9700@reddit

Which Scottish accent? There are lots of them

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oooohshinythingy@reddit

I like every Scottish accent I’ve heard. Fife is one of the nicest I’ve heard

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Afraid-Priority-9700@reddit

Fife? Really? I live in Fife at the moment and think it's a bit hideous. But then I have a major west coast bias.

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Frodo34x@reddit

https://youtu.be/Wwad6EZdx9E?si=k9YgfzQcZ1dHh-0K This one?

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clearbrian@reddit

sex wise glasgow ..so butch ;)

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Maz-Wye@reddit

Do You mean Maryhill Area of Glasgow?? That Particular City has 2 Distinct Accents "Maryhill" & "Southside". Also Most non-Scots think Greenock & Glagow Accent is the Same

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Spottyjamie@reddit

Isnt greenock that richard wilson/michael gove accent where it sounds more home counties than Scots?

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Maz-Wye@reddit

The Greenock sound Im familiar with sounds Glaswegian but Harsher than "South Side" No idea about Richard Wilson's accent but Identifiable as Scots. Youre right about Gove, Cant place him anywhere!

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Professional-Put4394@reddit

When a Brummie tells a joke, it's 10x funnier..

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BumblebeeForward9818@reddit

There is an innate faux stupidity which is glorious.

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BlackJackKetchum@reddit

Edinburgh Morningside.

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Appropriate_Cable914@reddit

English then

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Spottyjamie@reddit

Affluent derbyshire/warwickshire female

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lockeyB25@reddit

I love a soft Yorkshire accent, I also like a Scottish accent. And I know you didn’t ask but least favourite is definitely the Essex accent or scouse (sorry).

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MirrorTotal893@reddit

Northern Ireland

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Darrowby_385@reddit

ATM, the Western Isles as exemplified by the lovely Stephen fron The Traitors. Soft and lifting.

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thomhollyer@reddit

There are slight variations to it between Norfolk and Suffolk, but broadly the East Anglian accent. Growing up Great Yarmouth, I was surrounded by it, but when I moved further south into north Essex a few years ago I realised how much I missed it and how nuanced it was (highlighted by how rare it is to ever see a non-East Anglian accurately replicate it in media), and was delighted to meet the odd older Essex person who retained it rather than the Estuary accent Essex is now more famous for.

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SaluteMaestro@reddit

Edinburgh Scottish is my fav, Scouse is a horrible cat being run over noise.

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FanNarrow1969@reddit

OP asked which accent you liked not which you found horrible

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Ruby-LondonTown@reddit

East London.

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feeb75@reddit

Manc or Cockney

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Derfel60@reddit

Welsh Valleys

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Frodo34x@reddit

Anything northeast is great, it's always fun visiting Inverness or Aberdeen but if I had to be specific I'd say it's a toss up between Karen Gillan and that one "that's nae a bonk machine" guy

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Bells9831@reddit

Northern Ireland is sweet, but I love hearing little English children from the south speak especially when they say "daddy" "dah-dee".

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H5MAW@reddit

I’ve done a tour of Scotland this week and honestly I’m not ready to leave. I have no clue what they’re saying half the time but I could listen to the Scots talk all day long 😂

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Illustrious-Snow1858@reddit

I’m the same, I could listen to any Scots accent forever!

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gpowerf@reddit

West Country

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Sasspishus@reddit

I love Orkney accents! They're so lilting and musical

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snapper1971@reddit

Kernow, Welsh, Highlands and Islands, Liverpudlian.

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FoolishDancer@reddit

RP

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TheDawiWhisperer@reddit

Welsh, it's very sing songy.

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seven-cents@reddit

Glaswegian for me

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WhiskyKitten@reddit

Yay! Everyone seems to like Edinburgh better 😢

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seven-cents@reddit

No chance!

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D1C_Whizz@reddit

Edinburgh

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Jack-Rabbit-002@reddit

Valleys Welsh

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Careful-Button-606@reddit

Scottish. So damned sexy.

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CulturalLet6129@reddit

South Wales, especially Swansea

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Wasps_are_bastards@reddit

Scouse

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MsMcSlothyFace@reddit

Scotland. I can only understand about every 3rd word but I love it

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EatingCoooolo@reddit

As long as beautiful woman is speaking it can be any. Nothing tops Scottish and Welsh tied for number one.

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prustage@reddit

Im from Manchester, speak RP now but my favourite accent is broad rural Yorkshire.

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TobsterVictorSierra@reddit

Get out of Yorkshire now. In fact I don't believe you, you must be a Russian bot to be winding up such unrest.

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Dramatic-Ad-5661@reddit (OP)

Come drag me out 💅

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TobsterVictorSierra@reddit

I'm in contact with Richard III via seance right now.

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MrMikeJJ@reddit

Welsh. (I am not from Wales)

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luciferslandlord@reddit

South Wales

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weedywet@reddit

Mine

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barriedalenick@reddit

Probably Bristol or Somerset - I like a Geordie accent too but I had mate from Newcastle and when he got pissed I could maybe get 1 word out of 5.. Scouse I find a bit grating

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ChiliSquid98@reddit

Bristolian but I might be biased

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scarygirth@reddit

West Country

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missafricanbarbie77@reddit

A mancunian accent is going to win every time

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Geezer-McGeezer@reddit

Mockney init

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