Worst regional accent

[BadFish]

Having lived away for a long time, i met some people from East Grinsted/Forrest Row recently out of context and it was funny to hear a strong (north) sussex accent as an outsider.

We sound a bit daft

 

[mona]

Every south eastern accent except the genuine Cockney and the fast-dying out rural speech of Sussex and Kent.
TBH I don't like hearing my own voice.

 

[Spicy]

Glaswegian - can never understand a word they are saying.

 

[Gwylan]

Welsh

There's no such thing as a Welsh accent - it's as daft as saying you dislike an English accent.

The Cardiff and Caernarfon accents (say) are as distinct as Geordie and Brummie. It's the same as Scottish accents: I have friends from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness and the all sound totally different.

Personally, I don't dislike any regional accents, I like the fact that a small country like ours has such a diverse range in the way we speak. I think it would dreadful if we all spoke in a homogenised tone

 

[Lord Bracknell]

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

And, of the various versions of Northern Irish, I'd point to the Fermanagh accent as being the most impenetrable. Whenever I've been there, I've found it necessary to respond to all attempts at conversation by saying, simply, "Really?" That covers most situations.

 

[BadFish]

ocker Australian does my head in as it is clearly an affection and put on to be more Aussie than drinking a can of VB in a singlet and stubbies while knocking the wife about and hating immigrants.

A friend of mine affects a kind of posh English accent when she talks to me for a bit. Reverting back to her private school upbringing, it always makes me laugh as she can't go back to normal and ends up sounding like a posh English bird doing a crap impression of an Aussie.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

There's no such thing as a Welsh accent - it's as daft as saying you dislike an English accent.

The Cardiff and Caernarfon accents (say) are as distinct as Geordie and Brummie.

Even the Scots recognise that they talk funny in Cairdiff.

http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairdiff

Cairdiff (Inglis: Cardiff, Welsh: Caerdydd) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Wales, an the kintra's commercial centre. Gaun by the 2001 Census data, Cairdiff wis the 14t lairgest settlement in the Unitit Kinrick, and the 21st lairgest urban area. Houaniver recent local govrenment estimates pit the nummer o indwallers o the unitary authority as 317,500. The ceety o Cairdiff is the coonty toun o the historic coonty o Glamorgan (an later Sooth Glamorgan). Cairdiff is pairt o the Euroceeties netwark o the lairgest European ceeties. Cairdiff Urban Area kivers a bittie mair grund, includin Dinas Powys, Penarth an Radyr.

Cairdiff is the hame o the Naitional Assembly for Wales in Cairdiff Bay an muckle o the media in Wales. Doctor Who an Torchwood alang wi ither televeesion series is filmed maistly athin the Ceety an Coonty o Cairdiff. It haes the biggest media sector in the UK ootwi Lunnon, bein hame tae a nummer o televeesion studios an radio stations.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

There's no such thing as a Welsh accent - it's as daft as saying you dislike an English accent.

The Cardiff and Caernarfon accents (say) are as distinct as Geordie and Brummie. It's the same as Scottish accents: I have friends from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness and the all sound totally different.

Personally, I don't dislike any regional accents, I like the fact that a small country like ours has such a diverse range in the way we speak. I think it would dreadful if we all spoke in a homogenised tone

Nope welsh, it's all gobblydeegook

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Andalucían

 

[nicko31]

Mid-atlantic - annoying..

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

There's no such thing as a Welsh accent - it's as daft as saying you dislike an English accent.

I disagree. If you cannot differentiate between accents then you have to generalize. People often refer to my accent as "English". I can rarely distinguish between North American accents so refer to them as North American. Plenty of Aussie accents in London; is it daft?

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Essex accents on girls do my head in, closely followed by scouse accents..

 

[Leighgull]

Scouse is a great accent IMO

Birmingham...yuck.

 

[algie]

Glaswegian - can never understand a word they are saying.

Beaten by people from Aberdeen. Also Dundonians are very hard to understand.

 

[Questions]

A man goes into a Black Country vintage clothing shop wanting a 70s suit for a fancy dress party. He tries on a nice flared suit and a big collared brown shirt. The shop owner says "would you like a kipper tie?" "Thanks. Two sugars plaaayz" is the reply.

There's a guy fishing in a Birmingham canal and a passer by asks if he's caught anything.
"Yes mate I caught a whale"

"You caught a whale, what did you do with it "?

"I threw it back, it had no tyre on it "

 

[User removed 4]

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!!)

The funniest part is that bishop isn't even from Liverpool.

 

[User removed 4]

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.

Says the bloke who went to a public school in Sussex.

 

[User removed 4]

There's no such thing as a Welsh accent - it's as daft as saying you dislike an English accent.

The Cardiff and Caernarfon accents (say) are as distinct as Geordie and Brummie. It's the same as Scottish accents: I have friends from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness and the all sound totally different.

Personally, I don't dislike any regional accents, I like the fact that a small country like ours has such a diverse range in the way we speak. I think it would dreadful if we all spoke in a homogenised tone

All welsh accents make me cringe.

 

[edna krabappel]

Scousers.

Bristol.

Black Country.

Imagine some of history's great speeches being delivered with these accents. And yes, I know, that's massively snobbish

Quick mention for Northern Ireland too.

 

[wellquickwoody]

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To be fair, a strong Sussex accent can sound a bit simple.

Very true, from a Sussex bod.