To love the Scouse accent?

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It's beautiful! Not just the accent but the dialect. I love it, anyone else?

I dislike it. It reminds me of Bread and I found all the characters in that really annoying.

Scouse baby

You are kidding , it's my least favourite accent ever , I can't listen to it . Such an ugly sound .

Depends how strong it is, the ones that mispronounce every word and sound phlegmy are enraging to me

I’m from Liverpool, but moved down to, and worked in London. I’ve had people discriminate against me, and say it to my face, WRT jobs etc. I still get people down south looking down their noses at me for being Scouse.

It’s a hard accent to lose, but it has softened up over the years.

I used to be conscious of it, and the comments upset me, but they don’t now. I’ve lived in the south for a good few years, and I’ve lived overseas a few times too. At some point I realised that being Scouse is actually my superpower. I’ve never met anyone as good humoured, generous, accepting of others, as my Scouse peers. We are ACE.

So, I no longer give a shite lah. Plus my dead posh DH likes it.

Plus, yes the women are stunning, thank you 😜

I love Liverpool. The accent, well I don’t hate it, but I also don’t love it.

Don't love or hate it but do love a Scottish accent 😁 unfortunately mines Brummie 😂

I can't bear to hear it, followed closely by any kind of West Midlands' accent/dialect and then Manchester.
There seems to be a trend at the minute in exaggerating them by younger people and they all sound horrible. I love north-east accents but the same is true of that too and I have no idea what the wanting to pretend to have such an exaggerated accent is about.

A relative (from Liverpool) described the accent as ‘snot on barbed wire.’

I lived in Ormskirk for a long time and love the Lancashire and scouse accent, it brings back great memories… some of the loveliest people

I think it's lovely. Some of the nicest women I've met are scousers which maybe helps as it sounds so warm and friendly to me. One has a much softer accent than the others. All have moved away from Liverpool which is why I met them on various occasions though, so maybe novelty value is at play too?!

I’m sorry but I don’t like it, unless it’s quite soft. I was on a train some weeks ago and there were people (adults) with the most exaggerated Scouse accents on there - really loud and I’m sure they were putting it on because they thought it made them hilarious or something like that? The thing is, the English language can sound beautiful to a non- native ear, but not when they speak like that. It’s barely comprehensible and sounds very harsh.

I dislike it. Like others have said, it sounds phlegmy.

I had a scouse manager once though and her accent was quite comforting. It wasn't as harsh sounding but still had a tinge of the scouse here and there.

Genuine old Scouse accents sound lovely, I think, but that seems to be dying out.

As PP said, younger people seem to really ham the accent up, it never used to be harsh, it used to be quite gentle.

Interesting. Not even a sexy North Lancastrian lilt?
Mind you I am similar about the South where I grew up and cannot bear most Southern accents. Estuary being the worst, Bristol and the west country (my old accent) sounds like a piss take and most London accents sound put on and guttural. RP sounds wet. I can't think of one I like. Where as I love some of the West Yorkshire twangs, NE can be very sexy especially around Durham and love anything North of Preston to the South Lakes.

Love it. Loved visiting my son at uni there to hear it , unlike the accent of the one in a Welsh uni!

Nothing beats Geordie though 💚

I quite like a scouse accent but DH once pointed out that it sounds a bit like angry cats and now I can't unhear that.

I quite like it. I prefer the Yorkshire accent (where I live now as a southerner).

I like the Scouse accent but not the forced, ott fake one that some people seem to talk in these days. That goes through me.

Example - I love the Scouse ghetto gourmet on tiktok. Lovely, soft real proper Scouse accent.

I'm from the outskirts, so a woolyback, but some of the people round here talk in these plastic Scouse accents that are harsh and so ott and fake. It knocks me sick.

I grew up in Liverpool and moved away, but when I go back I find it a very ‘hard’ accent now. I’m sure it’s more pronounced than it used to be.

Same. Southern accents are absolutely characterless. Not Bristol etc., but that RP as you say. What a turn off.

I'm a Scouser with no accent (northern edge of the Liverpool postcode) and I'm not a fan of the 'modern' version of it where it's so thick you can barely understand it. My nanna had a gorgeous 'old Scouse' accent (think Cilla Black) which I much preferred.

Sets my teeth on edge. I hate it

It’s my worst accent, even worse than the Birmingham accent.

I'm the same as you. The genuine Scouse accent is lovely.

I do also love a Geordie accent!