What is it with the British accent?

[Sweeney94]

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

Erm, the Scottish exist too. And most English accents are worse than Welsh accents. Most people only like southern accents like mine.
Whenever I go to Ireland or Scotland all the girls are into my accent, they say it's like James Bond and Stephen Fry - kind of annoying.

 

[Mr Cwtchy]

A recent survey done all over the world found out that from all of the english accents, a British accent is the one that got the highest rating.
People just like it.

That made no sense to me.

OT: Even though I was born and raised in Wales, my family say I speak very 'posh'. I do tend to slip into RP sometimes, mainly because I think it sounds better.

So yeah, I can understand the appeal behind it.

 

[Zipa]

When I went on holiday to Mexico a few years ago I always got similar comments about my accent from girls, idk why but they do.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Haha, oh, I miss Washington DC. More attention in that week than I'd had the entire year before.
Just ruined by my absolute bellend friend.

"Oh my goooood! We love your accents!"
"Technically you have the accents."

(silence)

 

[Megacherv]

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

There isn't a typical British accent, there are just many.

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'.

I realised how Yorkshire I sound a few months ago when I did a voice-loopback recording of TF2. I thought "bloody hell, is that what I sound like?"

 

[Kukakkau]

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

Rhod Gilbert's accent is legendary

OT I dunno Americans just love UK accents - get told all the time but American friends "Dude!! You would get all the chicks with that accent!...Can I have it??/Teach me it"

 

[Random Argument Man]

They're always attracted to other accents. This does not only apply to americans by the way.

 

[Joshimodo]

Rhod Gilbert's accent is legendary

Rhod Gilbert is legendary. Deep Llanelli/Camarthen accent. Much better than down around my area near Newport. Thankfully, I don't have a very Welsh accent, since I spent so much of my life back and forth in England.

 

[rokkolpo]

I love and hate british accents.

There are many I like and many where I find myself poking needles in my ears.
Not as bad as in Holland though where we have a new dialect every other 4 miles.

 

[Wicky_42]

I could just as easily say "What is it with the Irish accent?"
One of my English friends says that it's the most eargasmic accent she's ever heard.
Apparently the English love it.

She's not wrong, a soft Irish lilt can be seriously sexy. Oh, to meet a shy Irish red-head...

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

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

I like the Welsh accent! It's unique and heartwarming..everything Wales isn't (I'm kidding, I love Wales!)

 

[Ashcrexl]

i'm not a girl and i love british accents (though i would not use the word cute). it's some kind of cultural thing i guess. immediate association with top hats and monocles.

 

[MiketheBassMan]

Wishing no offense to the residents of Great Britain, no one here in America can tell the difference between the accent in most of the country, except for the most glaringly different ones. While I'm sure there's no identifiable generic, we most certainly have a solid understanding of what the generic British accent would be. Something like Stephen Fry or Jeremy Clarkson.

 

[CrashBang]

I'm originally from the west midlands and the dominant accent in my area is the Bristol/Somerset farmer 'ooh arr ooh arr' accent. I used to have that accent when I was a kid but I forced it out and replaced it with a more neutral English accent because my rural accent embarrassed me
I think there's something suave and James Bond-esque about the 'usual' English accent

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

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

At least they don't think you're Irish...

What accent do you have to get mixed up with Irish ?

I'm a Scot. Ridiculous, I know, but it's happened.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

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...

Tell me about it. (Also with an American girlfriend here) It seems that whenever I meet someone who is American (male or female) they seem to have some kind of accent fettish. Though, I will admit that when I met an American couple last year, they mistook me for being Australian... yeah... I'm from the West Midlands...

 

[Distorted Stu]

Some reason when your near Wales, the Welsh girls love the Smoggie accent. So, anyone from middlesbrough or near, move to Wales! lol

 

[Zipa]

Haha, oh, I miss Washington DC. More attention in that week than I'd had the entire year before.
Just ruined by my absolute bellend friend.

"Oh my goooood! We love your accents!"
"Technically you have the accents."

(silence)

I lold at this.

 

[Spawn_Of_Kyuss]

Born and raised to a University family in Oxford, swear to god.

If you want to hear what middle-class, perfectly enunciated England sounds like, talk to me.