To love the Scouse accent?

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

If you look at interviews with The Beatles from the 60s, they have fairly pleasant accents which sound warm and good humoured.

I had a friend from Liverpool and men seemed to go crazy for her accent.

In my Liverpool Home, In my Liverpool Home
We speak with an accent exceedingly rare,
Meet under a statue exceedingly bare,
And if you want a Cathedral, we've got one to spare
In my Liverpool Home

Martin Freeman reportedly trained hard for the accent in The Responder. I couldn't understand a word.

My nanna had a gorgeous 'old Scouse' accent (think Cilla Black) which I much preferred.

Yes, one of my fondest memories of being a kid was my mums best mate, my aunty, who was gorgeous, and talked just like Cilla. All good humoured, and you could hear her laughing down the road.

But Irish accents vary as much as English ones do. A west Kerry accent sounds as different from an inner-city Dubliner as a Devonian accent from a Geordie.

I love the Scouse accent and have actually dated a few scousers in my time. I'm from North Wales though, so hear it a lot as they're always down here on their holidays 😅. I've always said that I'll probably end up marrying one 🤣

Defintely not a Lancashire accent. I don’t mind a very soft Cheshire or Leeds accent but I find Lancashire really grating

The two accents are not alike in the slightest

I absolutely love it. We are Scottish but brother in law is scouse and I’m just like talk to me. Read to me 🤣

i struggle with Birmingham accent the most.

I only dislike two accents.

Scouse and Northern Irish.

I have no idea why, but they just grate on me 🤷‍♀️

Ah I love it!

I had a terrifying Scouse teacher at school but she was the BEST teacher I’ve ever had by far.

Also had a Scouse friend with benefits and his voice used to make me go all funny

There's more than one Scouse accent. Old Scouse which is South Liverpool (Woolton/Garston/Calderstones/Aigburth etc.). South Liverpool is shared with over the water, Birkenhead/Tranmere etc.

Scouse which is more North Liverpool, Bootle/Walton-ish, think Jamie Carragher. Then round Huyton/Kirby/Prescot way it gets a bit hyper-hard Scouse, like Stephen Gerrard. Then there are mad variants like Skelmersdale/St Helens/Warrington/Runcorn (the Scouse contingent).John Bishop springs to mind.

People were moved out to those places, and others, in the mass destruction/rebuild years after the Second World War and on into the 50's/60's so working class Town accents were transplanted and changed and grew by themselves.

The thing about the kids is they are going for a hyper-hard exaggerated Scouse. But then the 'road men' do that with accents all over, wherever they are.

They are not uniformly spoken according to area either but are all mixed in along with Lancashire/Welsh/Norwegian/German/Irish/Chinese/India/wherever. It depends where your family is from/what school you went to/level of high faluntin'ness etc.

I don't know what accent Martin Freeman's doing, that's a mix of several and completely barmy.

Everyone thinks their own accent is the One, True Scouse though so what do I know 😬

Look, if several posters are unaware that there is no such country as ‘Southern Ireland’, and that the term is fairly problematic for obvious reasons, AND think that said ‘Southern Ireland’ has a single accent, I doubt they’d be able to distinguish between different types of Scouse accent.

I blame Brookside for creating that extreme Scouse accent. No one spoke like that at school in the 70s and early 80s. How Alan Bleasedale speaks is more how the accent was to me then.

How about this then 😁

I can’t bear scouse, brummie or lancs accents. They make people sound thick. I love Geordie.

Some people just sound thick because of what they say.

Yup 😂 I'm in the 'posh' zone 😅

I'm in the posh zone too. The accent is a Lancs variant here though (there's also not a singular Lancs' accent either, as it varies across the county).

I’m a scouser although I’ve lived all over the U.K./world in my life. My accent is probably the soft scouse accent.
I can tell if a scouser has Welsh or Irish roots just by the way they talk.

I’m from Liverpool and there are variations of the accent:

Older scousers tend to have a softer accent with a slight Irish lilt to it. You don’t hear it too much anymore but think The Beatles;

North Liverpool tends to be quite harsh and guttural;

South Liverpool tends to be softer but this part of the city is more affluent with a stronger influence from students who aren’t from here so that’s probably why;

Young lads tend to put it on a bit but grow out of it. I do love certain things they say though like ‘lad’ on the end of everything;

A lot of us have quite soft accents: my grammar is perfect and a lot of scousers think I don’t sound scouse, but people not from the city always do. My husband isn’t from the city though and I think his accent influences mine a lot!

We’d say you’re wools tbh 🤣

The posh zone is Allerton, Calderstones, Woolton, Childwall & Mossley Hill. These areas all have softer accents and generally good grammar (no ‘I seen / We was’ etc) and a much stronger student influence (students come from elsewhere and often stay in this area as a lot of the halls / student housing is based around here)

I think the range and diversity of regional accents and dialects is one of our greatest national treasures. How boring would life be if everyone sounded (or looked, or thought) exactly the same?

@NoWordForFluffy Yup, I know where you are 😂

I now work in London and once had to take a photograph of a girl who was a new starter. We had a chat and I said 'Sorry, weird question but are you from X place?' And she looked so surprised and said 'Yes!'

She sounded exactly like my cousin 😂