Dialects/accents

[angeldraws]

I love most accents -especially geordie, southern, irish, Australian but ONE accent i absolutely detest, is YORKIE......thee, thy, arn (meaning ours), yourn (meaning yours) etc. Anyone agree n wots your fave/most detested accent....

Actually, TWO - cos i don't much like Yank either....no offence!! - n I'm not being racist........

[reinganum]

Like littleoldme, I can't stand Scouse. why is this controversial? And, (in view of previous posts), to be even more controversial, I quite like Brum/Black Country. I don't care for Estuary/London much (careful, since I work there).

My favourite accent is not Geordie, but rural Northumberland (it's like Geordie but the "r"s are more gutteral and the vowels even more Scandinavian than Geordie is). The regrettable thing is, that many of these accents are dying out, especially in rural areas. I grew up, and still live, in Sussex, and I haven't heard a Sussex accent in years!
Another accent I quite like is the Norfolk/Suffolk accent (little known outside those parts).

[noxlumos]

I don't mind any accents, in fact the stronger the accent or even dialect the happier I am listening to the person with the possible exception of upper class Scottish accents a la Jean Brodie and norfolk accents are a bit naff as well.Mind you that's the pot calling the kettle black as I'm broad Belfast naturally which most people hate.

[Alibobs]

I have a friend with a broad Belfast accent, when we go out for coffee here in leafy Surrey the whole cafe turns around - she can give Ian paisley a run for his money! I love accents........have a boring Southern one myself, although having originated from Yorkshire I can still mash the tea.

I'm afarid the one that leaves me cold is the Brummie one - at the risk of offending everyone in the Midlands it makes people sound thick....sorry.........some of my best friends are from up the M6 xxxxxxxxx

[mightyWBA]

Most of yow lot cor stond the way we spake,but yowm all saft ,wim bostin'.
Just doh say wi spake like them lot from Brumagem,or yower fizog ull tek a lompin'.
tarrabit.
Personally a broad scouse accent,or that northern Irish women on GMTV get my goat.
http://www.sedgleymanor.com/dictionairies/dial ect.html

[minti]

My dad is an Eastender, my husband is Scottish, my mother in law is Irish and my daughter is married to a South African. But I can't stand Welsh accents.... (sorry)

[king-aslan]

I detest the scouse accent, and what makes it worse, i live in Wirral, which is right by Liverpool, but there's a slight difference between birkenhead accent and scouse accent, only very slight but they all sound thick, no offence. I like the welsh accent, i used to have one a while ago but i've been in Wirral so long i speak like they do on BBC (BBC English) but the occasional word still sounds it, which is nice.
Add Brummy to that aswell its just not as bad as scouse in my opinion.

[king-aslan]

Love the south african Accent too.

[Kathyan]

I love a Geordie accent when listening to a man but not a woman. I used to hate a Scottish accent until I met my husband 9 years ago, he's from Dundee! I don't like the Brummie accent though, sorry!