To ask what your favourite British accent is?

[WashingMatilda]

Help settle a debate.

Best British accent for me is northern Welsh. especially in men but I'm also a sucker for Geordie and a nice light brummie.

All of them. I love listening to different accents and colloquialisms. Although if someone was reading me a bedtime story it would have to Joanna Lumley

South Wales. Yum.

As a Geordie, I can't actually believe how many people like the accent! I wonder if you'd ever heard the Northumberland 'pit talk' you would think the same my granda speaks a different language!

I love Welsh and my best friend is Glaswegian so I am biased towards that

Oh and Sunderland is mackem. Completely different accent

I remember reading some shite American novel where one of the characters had a ‘European accent’?

In fairness, many if not most, Americans would be able to identify an accent as coming from somewhere in Europe but not necessarily the particular country. Also they would usually be referring to a continental European accent spoken by someone who is not a native speaker of English.

I think likewise many British people would have trouble distinguishing many regional American accents from each other.

What is posh Yorkshire ?!

I'm another posh scouser. I have heavy Lancastrian influences on my accent. Local people used to think I was from Leicester (no idea why) but anyone from outside Liverpool immediately knows I'm a scouser.

My favourite accents are the ones with a real lilt to them. Anything melodic.

My favourite accent in the whole world is N Irish, Fermanagh mostly, although there aren't many I don't like. Some Belfast are really harsh and I don't like them, a close friend was brought up in Fermanagh until they were 10 and then Belfast. They have the nicest accent!

Irish ☘️

Irish is not a Bristish accent. Unless you're referring to a Northern Irish accent which is a different country.

I also like the south side Dublin accent, but not north side, I don't like the Cork/Waterford accent either.

I used to hate Geordie, but now quite like it. Can't bear the Brummie accent though.

For people saying Welsh, it varies so massively. I live in North East Wales, but close to the English border and the accent here has a lot of scouse in it. North West Walian is very distinctive and very strong. South Walian is totally different, they use words and phrases that people here don't use and their accent can be quite musical, but also very thick. I have no idea about the accent in mid Wales.

Scottish but not all Scottish accents. I think soft ones from the East side. Only say east because I hate northern irish accents. so different from soft southern irish accents

I meant Northern Ireland, specifically Belfast!

Hushabye
The Dublin south side accent is just a middle class accent, used by the middle/ upper middle classes of the north, south, east and west sides of Dublin.

Geordie went on a hen do there and I loved it

why don't we ask Mumsnet if this thread can be retitled to..

'to ask what your favourite accent from the islands that comprise this geographical archipelago in which most of us reside'

because frankly i dont blame the Irish people for getting annoyed about this.

i'm Irish and I don't care.

The British Isles is a geographical term and the 4 countries share a language and it's hardly surprising if accents come up on this thread.

oh that's cool charis, some others were getting a bit cross earlier..:)

There's Belfast accents and Belfast accents BrollyDolly, ranging from expensive areas to high pitched fast ones and low deep and broad ones where I can't make out half of what is said, and I was born and live here

Welsh. After that it is posh London (like Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch), but only on men.

Scouse is one of the worst I think!

Oh and David Tennant's real accent

Accents are a strange one.

I live in a town a few miles from Birmingham. To me I can hear a clear difference in my accent and a typical ‘Brummie’ one (best boyfriends have been Brummie )

But when I was 16 I actually cried (really) when two women started discussing my accent loudly from the next table over. We had gone down to London in a day trip.

‘Oh god (insert name) I just can’t abide that accent (said while looking at me) It’s like nails down a bloody chalk board isn’t it’

‘Yes it’s awful, sounds so common’

Personally I love the most Welsh and Scottish accents.

lol at a ''european accent'' mentioned in an American novel!

@FlaviaAlbia okay. More specifically Jamie Dornans real accent

How is this not the most beautiful accent ever?