Do you love or hate the English accent?

Johnny Foreigner

LordSutch wrote: »

Thank God it was Jeremy Irons & not William Hague

By the way, I wonder does (did) the OP "Johnny Foreigner" think there was just one English accent?

I lived in London for 28 years.
I attended Oxford for 4 years.
That's 32 years living in England.
I have heard many English accents during that time.

DrCmen

Speak to English women every other day... Lovely Jubbley

LordSutch

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

I lived in London for 28 years.
I attended Oxford for 4 years.
That's 32 years living in England.
I have heard many English accents during that time.

Well in your opening post do you mean singular or plural? (accent or accents)?


PS: I have lived in England too!

Yahew

LordSutch wrote: »

I think you misunderstand me, I asked in post#101 "By the way, I wonder does (did) the OP "Johnny Foreigner" think there was just one English accent?" and the reason I asked that was because in your opening post you ask "Do you love or hate the English accent?" instead of the mors obvious question "Do you love or hate English accents?"

PS: I have lived in England too!

if you had read the thread you would have realised, as did everybody else, that he knew and everybody knows there are lots of English accents. Which is what we are discussing now - regional English accents.

LordSutch

Yahew wrote: »

if you had read the thread you would have realised, as did everybody else, that he knew and everybody knows there are lots of English accents. Which is what we are discussing now - regional English accents.

I beg to differ Mr Smartie pants, the opening post asks "Do you love or hate the English accent?" (singular) a curiously phrased question if you were aware that there were indeed many English accents (and not just one)! Personally I would have asked "Do you love or hate English accents?" . . . .

Goodnight.

Jeaz, I'm sorry I mentioned it now Z z z z z z z z z

Yahew

LordSutch wrote: »

I beg to differ Mr Smartie pants, the opening post asks "Do you love or hate the English accent?" (singular) a curiously phrased question if you were aware that there were indeed many English accents and not just one! I would have asked "Do you love or hate English accents?" . . . .

Goodnight.

Jeaz, I'm sorry I mentioned it now Z z z z z z z z z

Yes, but before replying to a thread you read the thread. Thats the general rule, as discussions move on. The discussion had moved onto English regional accents until you popped in.

IcedOut

i hate the english accent

Hannibal

The Scouse and Geordie accents on women are 10/10, the Mancunian I'd give an 8 but the rest especially the southern ones are extremely annoying the posh ones are almost unbearable to listen to

pearliefan

Oh lord I love guys with the English accent! Bar the ones you'd hear on Corrie and some of those places.

purplepanda

Worst the West Midlands, Geordies, Mancs, rest of Lancs apart from Scouse which seems to me to be more influenced by Welsh & Irish

Most English country accents are fine IMO. You actually will find real old country accents in villages 30 miles from London in most directions, nearby a local new town full of London folk. They all seem to have the same country accent as Norfolk or the West Country to me!

London there's big differences, proper Cockney is not Essex or most of suburban East London where the mockeys live:D

Prefer the North & West London accents, they both become more inner London or cockney nearer the centre of the city. There's more influence in those parts from the rest of britain & ireland. Even the welsh & scots seem to move to the north & west suburbs.

South one side is posh more west the other side cockney but don't cross the river. :eek:

The innit blud mutants seem to have arrived from another planet via the Bronx & are spreading to a city near you :rolleyes:

BOHtox

There is absolutely no such thing as an English accent. There are several types of accent in England, none of which are universally stereotyped to England as a whole .

Rockery Woman

Birmingham accent is awful!

Leeds accent is lovely!

London accent is lovely (especially men)!

Suppose it depends on personal taste. Irish accents differ too - I love the Galway accent, Donegal accent, Kerry accent, but hate the Cork and Wexford ones!

gsxr1

London accent is nice...

LH Pathe

My (iranian) cousin in london is a speech therapist I just hope she's learned to say room instead of rum, cos you don't wanna misinterpret a weary alcoholic

Mo60

Having been brought up in the east end of London I can tell you the only true cockney is one born and brought up in the Bow area. To anyone who watches Eastenders I can assure you they are not proper east end accents.

London itself has many different accents because of the large area it covers. As someone said previously you do not have to travel far out before you come accross completely different accents.

peewee_44

love it but then im english

who the fug

peewee_44 wrote: »

love it but then im english

engerlish surely

peewee_44

who the fug wrote: »

engerlish surely

sorry guv'nor im engerlish from engerland innit

who the fug

peewee_44 wrote: »

sorry guv'nor im engerlish from engerland innit

wicked and all that

saywhatyousee

Love the scouse accent its like music on my ears!!

peewee_44

saywhatyousee wrote: »

Love the scouse accent its like music on my ears!!

bet you used to watch brookside i did and i miss it......thats another story

westendgirlie

purplepanda wrote: »

South one side is posh more west the other side cockney but don't cross the river. :eek:

Oi !

Acacia

Don't feel strongly one way or the other. The West Country one can be a bit grating though.

cena

saywhatyousee wrote: »

Love the scouse accent its like music on my ears!!

My mothers scouse accent comes out when shes on the phone to her sisters in liverpool. Its funny when we hear it.

philologos

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

Do you love or hate the English accent?

Which one? - I have to tolerate English accents on a daily basis, at work, my housemates, friends I have here etc. I don't mind it particularly.

Not too much a fan of the Liverpool accent or Newcastle / Geordie accent but I tolerate them nonetheless

MugMugs

JerryHandbag wrote: »

MugMugs wrote: »

Liverpool womens accent.

It just screams "RIDE ME"

:P

Case in point: Sporty Spice

Except her!

panda100

I grew up in North West London,but mum made us do speech and drama when I was younger,so I have a fairly posh accent. I really dislike the cockney accent,but maybe its because I grew up around it.

purplepanda

Mo60 wrote: »

Having been brought up in the east end of London I can tell you the only true cockney is one born and brought up in the Bow area.

You had to be born within the sound of the Bow Bells to be a Cockney, however the Bow Bells are not in Bow East London.

They are near St Pauls Cathedral / Chancery Lane in the City of London. St Mary Le Bow church.

Mo60

purplepanda wrote: »

You had to be born within the sound of the Bow Bells to be a Cockney, however the Bow Bells are not in Bow East London.

They are near St Pauls Cathedral / Chancery Lane in the City of London. St Mary Le Bow church.

St. Mary le Bow, Cheapside to be precise. Bells were out of action during and after World War II for a period of years. Anyone born or living as far east as Bow would consider themselves to be a cockney, probably because of the name association.

Katgurl

Hate most of them

steelcityblues

Softer Welsh or Scottish accents are the best!

The Internet Explorer

I don't hate any accents. Accents are only how your voice sounds when you talk. Yes I do realise that's painfully obvious. It's all about the person. If the person is nice then.............I don't even know why I'm writing this, this is all so obvious. Hating accents could be viewed as highly irrational.

LordSutch

Sounds like you need a new book then :rolleyes:

Johnny Foreigner

panda100 wrote: »

I grew up in North West London,but mum made us do speech and drama when I was younger,so I have a fairly posh accent. I really dislike the cockney accent,but maybe its because I grew up around it.

I was born in the London Borough of Brent. I grew up in Kingsbury, NW6.
I have well spoken accent too.
What part of North West London are you from?

Halo Kitty

My other half is a Mackem, so everything is canny and alrite......mind you we still laugh at our accents, and how long it took us to totally understand our mannerism.lol....Now Happy out....like

Johnny Foreigner

purplepanda wrote: »

Worst the West Midlands, Geordies, Mancs, rest of Lancs apart from Scouse which seems to me to be more influenced by Welsh & Irish

Most English country accents are fine IMO. You actually will find real old country accents in villages 30 miles from London in most directions, nearby a local new town full of London folk. They all seem to have the same country accent as Norfolk or the West Country to me!

London there's big differences, proper Cockney is not Essex or most of suburban East London where the mockeys live:D

Prefer the North & West London accents, they both become more inner London or cockney nearer the centre of the city. There's more influence in those parts from the rest of britain & ireland. Even the welsh & scots seem to move to the north & west suburbs.

South one side is posh more west the other side cockney but don't cross the river. :eek:

The innit blud mutants seem to have arrived from another planet via the Bronx & are spreading to a city near you :rolleyes:

You would love my NW6 accent.

zenno

I like the Chinese accent i'm trying to learn it but it's damn hard. maybe after 6 years i might just accomplish it. trying a bit of polish as well which isn't as hard but i'm loving the Chinese. got to do it for the women as i love Chinese women oh yeah. http://lookpic.com/c1/i2/2283/Dd5OFlDt.gif

born2bwild

I remember it like it was yesterday: She was from Burnley and she gave thee greatest head ever: "Ahh'm frum Beuhnluh un ahh luvv yeh born2bwild...gobble gobble gobble"

She didn't actually use the my boards.ie name - I didn't have one at the time - but ever since I have had the working class Burnley accent seared into my brain as the most beautiful, most horn-inducing sound on this earth.

born2bwild

zenno wrote: »

I like the Chinese accent i'm trying to learn it but it's damn hard. maybe after 6 years i might just accomplish it. trying a bit of polish as well which isn't as hard but i'm loving the Chinese. got to do it for the women as i love Chinese women oh yeah. http://lookpic.com/c1/i2/2283/Dd5OFlDt.gif

Wo ai bee.

Chinese is pretty hard to pronounce - the four different tones and all that - but the pronunciation of "Irish Man" is a real mouthful - Ierlaaanwren or something very unlike that.

Tigger

depends

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

bronte

Totally depends on the accent...some of them are gorgeous.

voz es

Nigella lawson has one sexy accent. Its a london accent i think. Really though there are many different sounding English accents some are terrible and others are like Mrs Lawsons are a real turn on

Paparazzo

I like almost all of them. Even the Birmingham one. Not a massive fan on the London one. But a strong scouse one is woeful.

born2bwild

voz es wrote: »

Nigella lawson has one sexy accent. Its a london accent i think. Really though there are many different sounding English accents some are terrible and others are like Mrs Lawsons are a real turn on

Yeah - not a bad rack, either.

voz es

born2bwild wrote: »

Yeah - not a bad rack, either.

Ah that woman is (major english accent ) 'one hot tamale!'

Vote 4 Pedro

I like the Northern English accents but not keen on the Southern ones but that's probably because i'm from the leeds area,
Been over here donkey's years but don't think it will ever go,
I don't think about my accent much but most Irish people say it's a very nice accent.

doomsday

What is the "English Accent" i mean the cockney eastenders accent is a lot different than the scouse accent , or the brum, or the west country yokel accent.
is there an english accent per se?

af_thefragile

Prefer it to the American one anyway...

When you hear someone like David Attenborough speaking, you can instantly say this person knows what he's talking about!

Snoopy1

AEDIC wrote: »

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To sort of answer the OP... I dont mind most English accents on blokes..they really just pass me by to be honest although those tools on the Essex thing have horrible accents.... On girls I think Geordie accents are ultra smexy and Manchester/North West ones horrible...

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We dont all sound like that in Essex

saa

af_thefragile wrote: »

Prefer it to the American one anyway...

When you hear someone like David Attenborough speaking, you can instantly say this person knows what he's talking about!

like Morgan Freeman?