What is it with the British accent?

[EmzOLV]

People like my British accent, even though it's a bit weird. It's a mixture of my family who were all born "oop north" and my being born down near the South. Bit odd.

Not sure if Americans prefer it or not, I think at the end of the day it comes down to the individual themselves

Have to say though, love an American accent ^^

 

[mayney93]

Whenever they say British its some English accent, no one likes the welsh

they like tom jones , you have hope

 

[mayney93]

I'm from Yorkshire, so I'm not proud of my accent. Whenever I talk to people from places like London, they act like I have an IQ of around 70 because I talk like a farmer from 'up north'.

southerners think they're better than everyone else, we should lead a civil war against them and their pompous ways!

 

[dex-dex]

It sounds a lot better than american accents.
let's face it. Americans and many Canadians sound horrible. It is very harsh and annoying.
many other accents are more soothing and nicer to listen to.

 

[dex-dex]

Whenever they say British its some English accent, no one likes the welsh

Oh i beg to differ. It is up there in my favourites!

 

[HellsingerAngel]

So my girlfriends American friends always tell me how cute my British accent is (even though it isn't a "stereotypical" Londoner's accent), but I was just wondering what it is that American girls find so attractive about them...

Interesting and creative comments welcome^^

Just to give another spin on the perspective, speaking as a guy, my IQ drops a good few points when I'm talking to a British lady. There's just something about it that's so soothing. My girlfriend is from South Yorkshire and I could just listen to her talk for hours on end about absolutely nothing to hear that sublime accent of hers.

On the flip side, I visited her the past summer and her friends melted over my Canadian accent. They just found it drop dead sexy for some reason, to the point where we had ended up going to a birthday party and thhe birthday girl had me saying just about anything to her to hear me speak for ten minutes straight. Eventually someone had to tell her I wasn't a toy to get her to stop.

Really, it works either way. I'm not sure why, but some mysteries are better left unsolved as not to ruin their benefits.

 

[Aerialfrogg]

I could listen to Stephen Fry read the back of cereal boxes for hours.

I love British accents.

I watch Jeeves and Wooster, mostly just to listen to Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's banter (although there's not TOO much banter, since Jeeves is a very good Man's man).

 

[UltraDeth]

I'm from East London and I sometimes make a little laugh at other accents, like Newcastle or Yorkshire

 

[UltraDeth]

It sounds a lot better than american accents.
let's face it. Americans and many Canadians sound horrible. It is very harsh and annoying.
many other accents are more soothing and nicer to listen to.

Personally I like American accents, New Yorkers have an awesome accent. I can never tell the difference between US and Canadian voices for some reason

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Just a 'normal' one?
From the South East, so not Liverpool or Scouse, or Brummy.

I suppose its 'normal' for me, I don't know what a typical British accent would be like?

1234 posts, mikozero

All wight, guv'nar?
Just kidding, but people do tell me that my voice is ridiculisly posh.

 

[Kinguendo]

Aussie accent is better

I knew you werent British! You lying buttmunch! Go back to the gun control thread and admit to everyone that you arent British, just a lying turd.

Hahahahaha, no. Speaking as an Australian, we don't idolize the stereotype accent. I can say that the broad Australian accent is quite possibly worse then southern drawl and on par with cockney. He could still be British.

I am not saying he is Australian... just not British. And this isnt the only proof (his complete lack of any response even though I quite clearly called him out on it is an added bonus and lack of action is as good as an admission of guilt.).

Hahaha quite probably. We'll get those darn pretend Brits.

I normally wouldnt give a monkeys but he is pretending to be British in a thread he created about British gun laws... despite not knowing of what he speaks.

 

[LostFable]

there have been a few times online where i have been told that every girl in would love me just for my accent. it seems the girls of america like scottish accents.

 

[Outright Villainy]

and why is that? is there a shame in being irish?

If someone said you sounded English, I'm sure it'd annoy you just as much. I'd be pretty pissed anyway!

Also:

DOSH.

 

[Psymon138]

I put it down to our major cultural export for the past couple of decades being Hugh Grant being all charming and befuddled.

Personally I quite like the Irish accents.

 

[Dags90]

Personally I like American accents, New Yorkers have an awesome accent. I can never tell the difference between US and Canadian voices for some reason

Which New York accent? Lawnguylanders sound ridiculous. I live in the suburbs and I don't particularly like the typical "NY accents" too much, I'll take a Manhattanite accent over Staten Islander, any day. The media "NY accent" tends to be very Brooklyn or Staten Island/Jersey City Italian.

I can sniff out a Canadian pretty easy, they relax their vowel sounds a bit more than most Americans. Sometimes it's easy to mistake some Americans from near the border as Canadian but oh well.

 

[eelel]

To me the sexiest British accent has to be David Tennant's.

 

[CK76]

It's the soft delicate tones of the accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwxvC_MaRI0&feature=related

Have a cup of coffee!

 

[IMakeIce]

I live in the pacific northwest, US. Turns out my accent is _sought after_. Apparently, according to most linguists, the accents in pacific Oregon and Washington are about the "cleanest" American English you can find. We get advantages in applying for news positions, and are generally easier for foreigners to understand (my wife recently went to an international ministries conference in Texas, she was told many times that her accent was so easy to understand). Just don't head into rural eastern Oregon...might as well be Texas...without teeth.

Take that east coast!

(Or-eh-gun...that's how it's pronounced....Or-eh-gun. I don't want to here any more of this Origohn silliness.)

 

[BlumiereBleck]

not EVERY American girl finds it sexy...i know a lot who think it is annoying

 

[Kortney]

"British accent"

Uh. One of my pet hates. England alone has many drastically different accents, not to mention the differences between Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland!

My Algerian accent gets a lot of complements. Well, at least, it did before I moved to Manchester for a bit and I started sounding a bit like Karl Pilkington.