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.

Love a posh southern accent like Hugh Grant and also geordie and scottish for men.

Hate MLE or Jafaican - it's just speaking incorrectly.

I'd love to see a map like that with voices from people who live in the places kaitlinktm the one from NI sounds like someone trying to do one of the NI accents but getting it slightly off to my ears.

Like PP have said, accents in NI change every about 20 miles or so, though much less than that in cities.

There must be thousands of accents across the UK, it would be amazing to have a resource that has them all recorded.

There are graduations in all accents. I live on Yorkshire, but I’m clearly Southern. To the more familiar ear, South London. But someone in a bar in South Wales got my accent to within a couple of miles of where I grew up, without narrowing it down.

You might be interested in this

Geordie.
My favourite accents are:
Republic of Ireland
French
Italian
Geordie

Men with any of the above accents have an unfair advantage IMO and ought to be subject to some kind of handicapping system like golfers or racehorses.

Well my accent is 'slightly-posh North Yorkshire' but my favourite is Geordie! Not so thick that you can't understand it though. Soft Geordie!!! Love it

Edinburgh
Scottish
Irish
Northern Irish

Scottish! Tough, sexy and hilarious all at once!!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ

Definitely not Welsh.

Brapbrap - Me! But not sure how I could show you my accent!!

That is amazing BikeRunSki, thank you! I could lose hours on that...

Geordie.

Northern Irish makes me twitch, don't like it at all (though I'm sure they'd hate my accent too )

The Brummie--sequel burr of the Midlands. Sounds like a soft Brummie accent until you listen properly and catch the difference.
But that's because it was how my grandparents spoke. Since they died I haven't heard it much at at all, as I don't go to that part of the world any more. When I do hear it, it makes me a bit tearful.

Sheit That video completely missed out Harrogate and North Yorkshire!

Yorkshire, surely everyone knows its the sexiest.

Geordie and Scouse. Not the harsh Scouse you hear on Tele by people faking a Scouse accent, but a proper soft Scouse.

Not fussed on RP. Bland and dull.

I love hearing men with proper broad cockney accents. Very sexy Totally agree. That accent alone used to be enough to interest me, completely irrelevant what they looked like if they had the right accent!

DH is from south Wales so I'm now quite fond of that accent. I used to like Geordie, but then went out with one for a few months and went right off it.

" Hate MLE or Jafaican - it's just speaking incorrectly."

no it isn't no more so than any other dialect or accent. You are just being racist when you say that, and use the word 'Jafaican'.
It is not 'Jafaican' btw it is an accepted new dialect known as MLE. Google it

sandgrown , British refers to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - although a lot of people prefer describing themselves as Northern Irish to British. I am stunned as to how you think the people of Ireland are British.

The term British Isles is not considered acceptable by the Irish and the description 'Britain and Ireland' is used instead. Similarly the French don't accept 'The English Channel' and use 'La Manche' - in fact as I far as I know most European countries use a translation of that too.

Neutral accent. The kind that you find pretty much everywhere. It's British but not OTT accenty so as a forgeiner I have no issues u derstanding it.

Those saying Welsh have clearly never heard a proper Barry or Cardiff accent

Well for example someone in Essex can sound exactly the same as someone in Surrey or in Suffolk. Not everyone does but most people I meet have the same RP accent.

The Sheffield accent is very sexy, I admit, when used by Alex Turner who sadly has acquired a bit of a mid-Atlantic twang. (Think his voice is low and sexy anyway, though...)

foodfrax that is simply not true. You can clearly hear the Suffolk accent as different from Essex. The thing is that people move more these days, with middle class people buying up property that they can afford in different places. If those are the only people that you know in those counties, then ye they would sound the same.
Also an awful lot of people simply don't really listen tbh.

I'm just saying the different is not as distinct as say Scouse/ Geordie. If you heard me speak I doubt you'd guess where I was from, bar somewhere in the south.