Worst regional accent

[Ex-Staffs Gull]

Potteries has to be Up there amongst the shitest accents going.

I VOTE STOKE !

 

[Yorkie]

I agree the Northern Ireland accent sounds sinister. They talk as though they are talking through gritted teeth.

The southern Irish accent on the other hand is soft and lovely.

 

[Juan Albion]

I'm with Marv on this one.

Forget Brummie, it's got to be Wolverhampton.

 

[marvin]

I'm with Marv on this one.

 

[tedebear]

I wouldn't have a clue - I can't understand the half of you anyhow - Zef has to provide subtitles to my life....

 

[Gerbil]

Re: Re: Worst regional accent

They're not the same.Essex is London

Sorry Essex is NOT London.They just think they are.
There's a big difference between the two.

 

[BrightonBird]

http://www.northstandchat.biz/showthread.php?threadid=4877&highlight=Accents

What's really wierd is that it's posted by the same person.

 

[Marc]

lol good detective work BB

 

[BrightonBird]

 

[Dandyman]

Worst has to be scouse - how many other accents make you check your wallet/car when you hear it ?

Brummie is funny. Ulster can actually be quite sexy on a women, or is that just me ?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The accent that you refer to as "Brummie" is more actucally Black Country (West Brom, Wolves, dudley etc.) the one that Barry in AWP is supposed to be.

The main "brummie" accent is nothing loyk that.

Brummies refer to these as Yam Yams.

Quite right, marvin. Birmingham accents vary significantly as you move through the city. I used to speak fluent Erdington, but Small Heath was a foreign country.

On a larger scale, the same applies to the so-called "Welsh" accent. The sheepshaggers at the top end of the valleys take the piss out of folk from Cairdiff for the way they speak (and vice-versa).

Why are most of the accents I had as a child leading this poll?

 

[Juan Albion]

I wouldn't have a clue - I can't understand the half of you anyhow - Zef has to provide subtitles to my life....

As an Aussie, I guess the half you do understand would be those that speak Parkhurst, Dartmoor, Holloway, etc.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Not sure if this counts as a regional accent, but I get really irritated by the woman who appears to be speaking out of South Central's public address system.

She is particularly annoying when she gets round to mentioning "Little Hampton".

 

[RockyLatic]

I dont Like Proper Mancunian. They should learn to speak bloomin Lancastrian, t'top o stairs an that t'internet n all that.

Worst regional Accent - Yorkshire

 

[Yorkie]

Worst regional Accent - Yorkshire

Which Yorkshire accent? There are at least 5 different ones that i know of.
The worst is Hull followed by Barnsley.

 

[elbowpatches]

Wannabe cockney's from Sussex do my head in, but the scouse accent is too high pitched for me.

 

[Wilts]

Sussex - have you lot heard yourselves lately

Posh fella, you not heard how Reading and Brighton are almost identical accents?!?? (Going down through Guildford, Crawley etc). All London with a bit of proper speak every now and then. Estuarian but not mockney, and therefore nothing wrong with that.

Worst - Portsmouth/Southampton - too much Westcountry for somewhere pretending to be in the south-east. At least with Swindon you know its in the Westcountry and they don't hide it. Brizzle accents are quite funny and the people are geniune. In Pompey/Southampton its just full of inbreds pretending to be city boys.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

How can such a small country have so many silly accents?.I don't get it.who started it.

 

[Curious Orange]

My sister's accent!!

Since moving 'oop narth she has developed a Sussex/Manchester cross accent, sounds terrible!!!

 

[Gwylan]

How can such a small country have so many silly accents?.I don't get it.who started it.

That's a really good question, buggered if I know the answer.

What staggers me is how these regional accents cover such a small area. When I lived in Yorkshire, I could recognise people who came from Dewsbury instantly, the accent was so distinctive. And Dewsbury is just one small town.

As several of us have pointed out, it's misleading to talk about Welsh, Brummie, Yorkshire, Irish etc accents as there are so many of them, all very different.

I may be wrong but I don't think that there's such a wide spread in the US. Of course, there are lots of different accents but I don't think you get situations where two towns about 20 miles apart would have totally different accents.