What's the worst accent?

Rubberlegs

chasm wrote: »

Is that just Cheryl Cole/Tweedy's accent or the geordie accent as a whole;)

Accent as a whole, couldn't remember it was called geordie:o

NoHornJan

Go to the Croke Park area now and listen to an angry Louth accent..

Censorsh!t

I really can't stand most Dublin accents. I think that's about it.

I feel my Cork accent has gotten stronger over the past few years. No idea why. I don't know whether to be happy or sad over it.

jackthelad321

All accents can be a bit annoying, it usually depends on who's talking. outside the usual Ireland ones, (I thought Limerick, my land, was in for a kicking here, not terriby popular) I'd go for Australian, especialy when it's high pitched, any American accent, and to be honest any extreme accent, I prefer neutral ones. even a Scots accent will annoy me after a while, depite it being nice at first. Same for Donegal, Belfast etc.

The only accent that has never irritated me is probably the Welsh.

Barna77

The (I believe) Northern correspondent in RTÉ news. I'd say he invented a new county today, he talked about Meath and somewhere else...

amdublin

The Wicklow town accent. It's so whingy and moany.

And I hate they way they call their parents mammy and daddy like they are six year olds. Whingy moany six year olds.

JohnMearsheimer

Louth is pretty bad. I worked with 2 girls from up around there and their accents used to cut right through me.

Celly Smunt

Censorsh!t wrote: »

I really can't stand most Dublin accents. I think that's about it.

I feel my Cork accent has gotten stronger over the past few years. No idea why. I don't know whether to be happy or sad over it.

you should be sad about it

redstar6

Cork, Kerry, Wexford, Waterford, Fundalk, Drogheda, Skanger Dub, D4 Dub. WTF is wrong with a CAVAAAAAAAAAAAN accent?

Benny Lava

Barna77 wrote: »

The (I believe) Northern correspondent in RTÉ news. I'd say he invented a new county today, he talked about Meath and somewhere else...

It wouldn't have been Lieth, would it?

RoRoCullen

Dudess wrote: »

D4 - every time I hear it, I die a little inside.

ditto.

RoRoCullen

Belfast. Cork. D4 'accent'.

rebel.ranter

An easier question might be:
What is the least annoying accent?

I would say any of the ones from the west of Ireland Galway/Mayo/Sligo

Of course a new thread would be a better place to ask...

bnt

You folks need to, like, totally, get out more - y'know, go to LA and meet a Valley Girl, OK? Bitchen, I am Sure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHf089jl9H4

Censorsh!t

pmcmahon wrote: »

you should be sad about it

awww, ok:(:(

Tiny Explosions

I find the white south African accent fairly irritating.

Melange

Tiny Explosions wrote: »

I find the white south African accent fairly irritating.

Couldn't resist posting this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLMKUXZ3hk

Ricardo G

100% cork accent, as tommy tiernan once quoted, " like a tinker talkin french"

Lloyd Xmas

One of the most vomit inducing experiences is listening to the D4 accent... when some fool is adding in an artificial lisp for extended honourary gayness.

Conor Lenihan does this and I think Miriam O'Callaghan may be prone to the odd bit too. But there's thousands of young Sssthaoirses and Ssssthorcas that are studying hard for Masters Degrees in this Boll*xology.

Rick Deckard

anything north, west or south of the pale M50
Except Sligo, my wife's from there.

Rick Deckard

seriously though, i suppose i'd have to go with inner city cork.. only hard to understand cause you're running away from him before he stabs you!

pdempz

dublin by far has to be the worst..... bores a hole in my head every time i hear it!!!

Rick Deckard

pdempz wrote: »

dublin by far has to be the worst..... bores a hole in my head every time i hear it!!!

d4, inner city, old dub, malahide?

baltimore sun

London, by far and away the worst accent in the world.

Adding the letter R to words without them and adding the letter W too.
Everytime I get an phonecall from London I try and get the conversation over as quickly as possible.

Other English accents are ok though, Cornwall is especially funny

I like most Irish accents though, 'cept Drogheda, that's just nasty

celticbest

100% Cork.........Full Stop...

briany

I had a classmate in college who had not only a D4 accent but a speech impediment such as Jonathan Ross has but worse. His nickname was "Wally Wabbit". But yeah D4.....Horrific.

StormWarrior

Why do the Irish say "so" at the end of a sentence, when it clearly doesn't belong there? I have always wondered.

For me, worst accents ever are american and northern English. Best accents ever = Welsh & Scandinavian. I would do almost anything for someone with a Welsh accent, especially something dirty.

I_AmThe_Walrus

The muck-savage boggering caveman aborigine originating from the back-arse of Ireland accent.

Captain_Generic

Northern Ireland accent.
Suitably imitated by saying "nine iron" over and over again.

Herb Powell

Captain_Generic wrote: »

Northern Ireland accent.
Suitably imitated by saying "nine iron" over and over again.

it's NORN IRON YOU FOOL