Worst regional accent

[TheJasperCo]

Surprised no one has yet mentioned the Essex accent either. That's got to be up there.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

What about valley girl? Really irritating (read that with a raised inflection).

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Yorkshire is vile, Brummie can be grating but the rest I can deal with.

Having been born in Yorkshire and having lived in Birmingham for seven years (until I moved to Brighton), I can only be grateful that you didn't include the Welsh accent I picked up when I lived in Newport.

Whenever I return to these places, I find myself reverting to how I spoke when I lived there. I find this rather disconcerting.

 

[Hugh'sDad]

Glaswegian (like Kenny Dalgleish)
The horrible scouse one (like Rooneys wife)
Manchester (whining accent for whining people)
Bristol
West London (there is a difference and its 'orrible)
Sussex
Janner

Admit it........I'll bet you cant stand your neighbours accent either.

 

[Nottseagull]

Leeds is different from Sheffield, which is different to Barnsley, which is different to Doncaster,and Hull is worst of the lot.

Hull? If you're covering the traditional county then you have to include Middlesbrough, the most distinct Yorkshire accent.
I'm not surprised to see no mention of the East Midlands accent, inoffensive diction that's no worse than any o' t'others.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Welsh

 

[BN9 BHA]

I went to a Bristol Rovers play off final years ago. Sounded like 40 thousand yokels auditioning for the part of the village idiot.

Who got the part?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Who got the part?

Ian Holloway

 

[bravohotelalpha]

Having been born in Yorkshire and having lived in Birmingham for seven years (until I moved to Brighton), I can only be grateful that you didn't include the Welsh accent I picked up when I lived in Newport.

Whenever I return to these places, I find myself reverting to how I spoke when I lived there. I find this rather disconcerting.

Note to self - must try harder

 

[BN9 BHA]

Ian Holloway

Clear winner!!

 

[Husty]

I get much more wound up by the thousands of Home Counties Trustafarians in Leeds talking about their gap yah in the most cliched way imaginable than anything else.

 

[goldstone]

Northern Ireland has to be one of the worst ... but I like the "proper" Irish accent.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Interesting thread. Yes there are certain regional accents that grate a bit - but at least they are genuine.

The one 'accent' that I really dislike is the upper class public school 'ok ya, hooray Henry' so precious cut glass which cannot be genuine, I suppose it's more of an 'affectation' than 'accent' but seems most insincere false, chinless and painfully arrogant.

Don't get me wrong I'm not a raving left wing loonie - because the other 'accent' that almost grates as much is the generic Essex/Landaan/Kent 'gor blimey' not quite Cockney, and for some reason now corrupted with a Jamaican bad boy yardie street patois, innit.

 

[The Wookiee]

West Country is by far the worst

Actually I've changed my mind, by far the worst accent in the UK is the "innit bruv gangsta" speak that is polluting our country in recent times, horrible totally horrible

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Actually I've changed my mind, by far the worst accent in the UK is the "innit bruv gangsta" speak that is polluting our country in recent times, horrible totally horrible

I agree. This 'accent' seems to be engulfing the 'Home Counties' (what a quaint title that seems these days) - from Brighton to Bedford, Canterbury to Chelmsford, Reading to Romford, Aylesbury to Ashford. That's why it is now so refreshing to hear a genuine rare Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire accent, however they may sound. I guess these should be savoured before the gene pool is so polluted by the mongrel 'wickid' gangsta speak.

 

[Dr Q]

Scouse is the most annoying, John Bishop's twang in particular, that slow, f**kwit type scouse! (not helped by the fact that he's as funny as a kick in the b*ll*x!!)

 

[severnside gull]

Steven Gerrard.







.actually that threatening shout that they use in northern ireland and the idiotically affected gangsta-blud bullshit that kids seem to practice.

 

[Doctor Crawley]

I've always found the Brighton accent quite amusing,it has a sound all of its own.Quite unique.
You could hear it readily back a decade or two,when I frequented the Goldstone.
Travelling the 26 miles south to my local club,you could be forgiven for thinking you were a greater distance from home.

 

[severnside gull]

Steven Gerrard

 

[Grassman]

I've always found the Brighton accent quite amusing,it has a sound all of its own.Quite unique.
You could hear it readily back a decade or two,when I frequented the Goldstone.
Travelling the 26 miles south to my local club,you could be forgiven for thinking you were a greater distance from home.

I've said this before but the actor Ray Brookes has a great Brighton accent. People think he's a cockney but it's much, much softer than that.