Favourite accent, and why!

Ahh, deep south...Georgia is the best. I'm starting to like this Wyoming/native western inflection. I've lost all my south and have a midwestern twinge that annoys me when I hear myself speak.

 

LORD THUNDERING JESUS- Lord thundering Jesus - Frikipedia

 

A sweet German lady with a mild Rhine accent and a soft [t] isn't bad either.

 

European accents, such as,

Italian, German, Swiss, Swedish, Norwegian.

 

Back in the 80's I visted my Dad's home town and several of the farms owned by his friends along with him. That would be up North of Regina Saskatchawan. Loved the accent up there. Seems most of the families in that area date back to the mid 1800's. About half were from Scotland and the other half from Germany. Sort of a mix of German phraseology and Scottish pronunciation. Smoothed out enough to make it easy to understand.

 

That must be sweet to hear. By the way congrats for your 4000th!

 

Lately, I've come to know a young Polish gal and love the way her voice sounds. It's melodic and soft and precise rather than clipped and abrupt like Russian or other Slavic accents.

 

LWD, surely Pa showed you the secret Canadian handshake? (it involves mittens)...Lawdy, LWD is part Canuck... Lord thunderin' Jesus...Puck shall be thine new nickname. Or Beaver. You choose. Canadians like both.

 

Only in an honary sense. My grandparents moved up to Duval and homesteaded a wheat farm (not sure exactly when but probably pre WWI). My grandfather died in the late 30's and not too long after they moved back to Iowa. My dad chose to be a US citizen when he came of age. The farm is still in the family last I heard though. I'm pretty sure it went to my dad's younger brother (and obviously my uncle).

 

I like British accents like Middlesex, Sussex, Surrey, Hertfordshire and London, and American So-Cal and Valley a lot, and French; the most.
I think girls with these accents sound so sexy.

 

French Canadian women speaking English.

EDIT:

After they know I'm not an English speaking Canadian. Otherwise the conversation would be only in French and not very pleasant.

 

Boy, you are bored.

My oldest adopted daughter came from Ukraine when she was 10. The poor girl lost her native language at age 10 when she came here. My Ukrainian is pretty limited so I couldn't talk to her in that language beyond simple talk. She also was a refugee from Azerbaijan when her family fled their as refugees, so she also lost Russian which was her irth parents native language.

She now has a Ukrainian/Russian Midwest accent that can be pretty hysterically funny especially in conjunction with her Midwest vocabulary. The still often speaks like a Russian speaks English, leaving out transition words.

She's a good sport about it but she gets teased a lot at home and at school. It sounds like a combination of Lisa Douglas and Hank Kimble from Green Acres especially when she's mad or nervous.

Her listening skill are about the same. In Home Ec she was told not to put aluminum foil in the micro wave....and proceeded to do just that.

In English they were reading aloud in class about Greek gods. When it was her turn she had to read something about Hermes. She innocently added a P. You can imagine what happened. Took 10 minutes for the teacher to get the class back under control.

She didn't know what it meant. She asked me at home. She threatened suicide....not seriously of course but in embarrassment.

 

Ever heard a Tahitian girl rolling "r"s ? Boy watching the news or the weather is worth every second of it and you won't care about the weather anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coogy6ozxcw

 

Well I grew up in an isolated bend of the Alabama River, almost dead center of the state and now live, 76 years later, in East Alabama. Alabama alone has many accents, all Southerners do not sound remotely alike. I have a sort of deep southern drawl, rarely heard anymore. We had no white neighbors for 6 miles and my accent is from my mother and father which is near unique. Our 41 year old daughter lives in Northern California and people constantly ask her where she is from, never guessing the South.

The singularly most beautiful speaking voice I have ever hear was a young woman in Glasgow. Born and raised there. Shear joy to hear her speak, literally gave me goosebumps..

Oddly enough I made a 12 week trip around the UK and made it a point to at least stop in every shire. I was floored by the rich variety and beauty of English in so many forms.

The most beautiful language , to me, has to be French. They just got it right.

A funny accent story. I took a speech class inn college. the teacher, an eager young woman from the mid-West told me soon on her goal for the quarter was to eradicate my Southern accent. I politely, I am a Southerner after all and still open doors for people, Skipper. It use to be for women, now I do it for everyone by habit.............and she said so that people would not think I was uneducated or dumb. I told her I did not feel uneducated now dumb and liked my accent, it was part of my heritage, and in fact liked all aqccents, even those from New Jersey and the Bronx. I actually do. It gives us a sense of place, a character. One day it was raining as I saw her approaching and said "Ahhhh, Dr. Littleton, the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" in my best Rex Harrison accent, I owned the record. She laughed and said "I think you've got it !" after that we got along just fine..

Gaines

 

My own accent belongs to just about every county in Scotland, despite being a Stirlingshire man. I put it down to time spent in the local pit villages as a teenager (and attempts to make my accent as broad as possible just to annoy my mother), and the amount of travelling I did as a roadie for mates in a band in my twenties.
I sound completely uneducated without even trying.
Love the Lancashire accent, and also the Hampshire and Dorset ones from time spent holidaying in the New Forest as a kid. Hate Birmingham and South London ones though.

 

Australians sound similar wherever you are...apparently the NT has the broadest accent - and most "Australianisms" come from the NT - If you listen very carefully the trained ear can tell a South Australian from a Queenslander or a Tasmanian from a New South Welshman...and everybody can pick a Territorian...apparently.

 

In the USA...girls from "The South".
Georgia
Tennessee
Oklahoma
I went to Road Atlanta in 1979. We towed a race car back to Sacramento...and stopped (in the south) As Often As We Could, just to hear the girls talk...!!
At 19 years old, and we had never heard that in person. Seen and heard it in movies, but it was Much More intoxicating live. Makes you melt. The Southern Guys all sound nice...honest...but the girls just flat out melt you. I could listen to them say anything, for hours.

Outside The USA...Ireland. The way those girls speak English is lovely. They could talk me out of my ATM card and PIN.

Palestinian girls speaking their own language is mesmerizing. They could be commenting on how ugly I am, but it would still sound like Heaven to me.

French girls speaking English is probably the award winner. But Italian girls speaking English is a close second.

 

Jamie Lee Curtis seemed to enjoy Russian in a "Fish Called Wanda"