The British Accent Is The World's Most Attractive, According To Poll

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-british-accent-is-the-worlds-most-attractive-according-to-poll-10032596.html

What is the British accent or even the UK accent, surely they mean The ENGLISH accent?

[maggiebee]

Ah, but which part of England? Sussex or Birmingham?

[janbee]

What is a British accent. ?Also, what is an English accent? Geordie? West Country? Midlands? Cockney? Yorkshire? BBC? ALL entirely different. There's no such thing as a "British" or "English" accent. Some are ok but many are ugly sounding.

[Misky]

Probably East Durham.

[RATTER15]

They clearly meant to say, "Devonian accent" :-)

[anotheoldgit]

Yes you all have a point, ask a foreigner to define an English accent and they would most likely say or think that it is the way that BBC announcers once spoke.

[ToraToraTora]

they are probably referring to the old news voices like those discussed here: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Media-and-TV/Question1396843.html

[sandyRoe]

English spoken with a posh Dublin accent has a nice tone to it.

[ladybirder]

It wouldn't be this one then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw9RuwD9sqQ&spfreload=10

[jno]

it'll be received pronunciation, like the ones you get from British actors hired to play villains in Hollywood movies. If they want regional British accents they get Don Cheadle (Dick Van Dyke being a bit old).

[anneasquith]

male Dublin accent....... lovely :)

[Gromit]

I think they mean a southern accent, a bit posh not a bit Essex. Educated and clear pronouniation. Think Hugh Grant or Domonic Cumberbatch.

Educated Scottish accents are appreciated too.

[steg]

Isn't this the average englandshire accent
http://youtu.be/Y_ba2lDh7Wo

[Baldric]

English / Dublin, leave it out, it's not even British!

[Booldawg]

Jimmy Carr; 'I'm from the Home Counties, which means I don't have an accent - this is how words sound when they're pronounced properly'

[youngmafbog]

Gawd Blimey Guvnor

[anotheoldgit]

English/British/or Uk accents, whatever, the main criteria for anyone taking up a call centre/customer services job, one should be understandable.

Because at times I cannot understand a word they are saying, they might as well be speaking from a foreign land, but wait a minute!!!!!!!

[Gromit]

AOG

I get rung up by that Scottish Call Centre as well.

[stuey]

I'm certainly glad that you all can type, or else I wouldn't be able to understand a bleedin' word that you was sayin'.

[jourdain2]

Well I have a Yorkshire accent (light because Mum was Scottish, I was an English teacher and I got a sort of mix) and in the States - both E. and W. coast and N.Y. - several people commented on how much they 'lurrved' my accent!

[jourdain2]

^^^ In France they tend to think that my accent when speaking French means I am from Alsace!