accents

[Jax]

So I am originally from Devon but have been gone for so long that I lost my accent. I was very little when we moved to the flatland! Even now though the accent just makes me melt!

What accents make you go weak about the knees?

[Glutton4...]

George Clooney's!

My Husband loves a scottish accent, for some reason. He doesn't need to understand what they're saying, he just loves it!

[Ananke]

He doesn't need to understand what they're saying

That's probably just as well, I struggle to understand some folk and i'm Glaswegian.

I think an Irish accent has to be my favorite, I like the southern sound but a strong Belfast accent is better.

[Thelma Sanders]

whatever Sean Connery's is, and Neil Oliver's is nice as well.

[Florence Fennel]

Broad Yorkshire is my least favourite. I find Geordie twang is lyrical to listen to.

[donnakebab]

I like Neil Oliver too. Married to a Dubliner. Belfast makes me think of Ian Paisley and that's a real no no. Cockney turns me cold. Otherwise quite like Manchester, Geordie, South Wales, Devon and Cornwall.

[Jeanied]

I married a Belfast boy - but by the time he got to me his accent had mellowed to the sweetest lilt - I loved it!

[lizzylemon]

I like any that are soft or lazy accents - drawn out vowls etc. Im from Suffolk/Cambs board and carry a soft Suffolk burr mixed with sort-of well spoken. I didn't think I had an accent till someone pointed it out a few months back The born & bred Cambridge accent is is really common (as my GrandMa would say) They use words like aint, oi, wor-ah (water) - completely opposite to the Very Posh Colleges which I find very interesting. Personally dislike Liverpudlian and Northern Ireland accents as I find them too harsh - love the people though.

[Fruit&2veg]

I love to hear a nice soft southern Irish accent-so mellow and soothing.

[scarletrunner]

No one likes my accent,(Black country ait (i'm from Dudlaay).

[donnakebab]

The Black Country accent is bostin ait. I was born there but moved to the sticks of Dorridge 9 months later! Now I have a Brummy twang but can sound well educated when required.

[Newton]

Geordie has to be my favourite followed by both Irish accents. I loved jimmy carrs interview with Grahame norton on Friday where he was explaining how to do certain accents to Antonio band eras.
Hilarious.....his gag about the scouse girl goin shoppin fur a prezzie fur me grannie. It's her thirtieth birthdee! Was choice......

said in my light northern Liverpool scouse accent.....edge of Lancashire really

[chris]

I'm from Derby, but moved abroad- was educated in an American curriculum until I was 15, in an international school..

My sister went from having a derby accent, to having an american one, now we're back, she has an even stronger derby accent.

I don't have one (thank goodness ) - I went to exeter uni, quite a lot of posh folk that way, so some things I say do have a bit of a posh twang (funny story - the other day, me and a mate spent the whole day talking like posh old gents... I went to the fruit stall. "I say, those bananas look bladdy lovely. Chuck me a bunch will ya old chap?". "Good grief, those cherries. I'll have a pound. No, wait make it 2 pounds let's splarsh out, it's only bladdy christmas isn't it?" - this went on all around town, some people were daft enought to think it was the normal way we spoke, others just laughed - ok, so not funny because you weren't there - but it was a jolly good larf!".

erm, so where was I. Yes, i don't really have an accent. I do still say "cob" mind, for what people here call a roll, so when I pop into a shop and ask for a bacon cob, I get blank stares.

My wife is welsh, and a lot of my friends are, so in a mick-taking fashion I've always emphasised saying "now in a minute", and now, it's stuck with me. I hear my self saying:

"I'll be there, now in a minute"

then I'm like, argh !!!

[perkin]

I married a Belfast boy - but by the time he got to me his accent had mellowed to the sweetest lilt - I loved it!

I married a Belfast boy also. He retained the accent even when he lived in Dublin. However, having lived outside of Ireland (North or South) longer than he ever lived there, he now has what he calls a 'BBC Northern Ireland' accent

[HeyWayne]

I love a Norn Ireland accent on a woman. My Dad's from Co.Down, as are all his family.

I don't have an accent.