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  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,722
    edited March 2017
    NornIrishAddick said:

    cafcfan said:

    I have an unfortunate habit of unintentionally imitating people, but do it quite badly.

    I spent two years working in Newcastle and ended up with this horrendous sort of London/Geordie combo which no one could understand. Or as the locals would say: that gadgie's a propa wazzock. In the end, it was good to be gan yem.
    But, still, the Geordie dialect would be my favourite. (I think it counts as a dialect because they have so many different words in their vocabulary rather than just a different pronunciation of regular words).

    The reason for the way they speak in the North East becomes clearer when you compare their pronunciation of "going home" - gan yem - to the very similar Norwegian words - går hjem. They are after all pretty much Vikings but without the hats.

    I'm thinking the word blatherskite was made especially for Karl Robinson.

    Least favourite would be the County Tyrone version of Norn Irish. It's impenetrable.

    Thanks a bunch...

    Is Cafcfan's choice based on George Cunningham from Strabane? He lived to be 90.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaadphJyy50

  • mattaddick
    mattaddick Posts: 655
    countryandclubneedsu said:

    Thus saying I dislike your Landon accents & London people in general, when OUR Country has got into the mess it has due to the amount of non English people over here, its really a breath of fresh air in the smoke. I'll tolerate it as its English, don't like it, but at least most who sound it are English.

    I'm not sure I like the sentiments of this largely unintelligible post
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  • el-pietro
    el-pietro Posts: 611
    Karim_myBagheri said:

    that sing song southern Irish. especially from a girl. everyone seems to think it's really nice. cant stand it. I actually prefer Northern Irish. I usually mimic it myself with the words "where's the f@cking guns?"

    Michal Cain's accent always makes me smile.

    Whats wrong with my accent!?
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,216
    Mongolian accent really creases me up ;0)
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,899
    I'm not over keen on the Polish accent, as it sounds so miserable!
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 916
    addick1965 said:

    I don't find any accent annoying,I do have a soft spot for the Welsh accent though.

    Never!
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,693
    Like Geordie, Welsh and small town northern accents (Lancs or Yorks, doesn't seem to matter - they just seem to go a bit funny when its a big city). Don't mind a soft scouse accent - my scouse work colleague is always implying that it's the Woollybacks who sound wierd (people from the Wirrall, apparently, like Tranmere and Paul Nuttall).
    Not so keen on Midlands. Or Croydon. Don't like RP.
    I do wonder if I've been conditioned somehow - as this seems to be totally illogical.
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,118
    I love all British accents.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,370
    I've always thought the Welsh have good expressive voices.
    I absolutely hate fake mockery core blimey Mary Poppins London accents as used by many in films and media.


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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjpApOYziCw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coI_mHQXXBA
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,806
    Chizz said:

    I have never heard a South African who sounds intelligent

    I've never met a nice South African
    And that's not very surprising, man

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDk6ZeGNnU
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    cherryorchard said:


    NornIrishAddick said:

    cafcfan said:

    I have an unfortunate habit of unintentionally imitating people, but do it quite badly.

    I spent two years working in Newcastle and ended up with this horrendous sort of London/Geordie combo which no one could understand. Or as the locals would say: that gadgie's a propa wazzock. In the end, it was good to be gan yem.
    But, still, the Geordie dialect would be my favourite. (I think it counts as a dialect because they have so many different words in their vocabulary rather than just a different pronunciation of regular words).

    The reason for the way they speak in the North East becomes clearer when you compare their pronunciation of "going home" - gan yem - to the very similar Norwegian words - går hjem. They are after all pretty much Vikings but without the hats.

    I'm thinking the word blatherskite was made especially for Karl Robinson.

    Least favourite would be the County Tyrone version of Norn Irish. It's impenetrable.

    Thanks a bunch...

    Is Cafcfan's choice based on George Cunningham from Strabane? He lived to be 90.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaadphJyy50

    I have a sneaking suspicion it's more Dungannon (Moy Park) based, if I remember correctly his sister used to work there - of course, it could equally be a dislike for Kevin McAleer...
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    God blessed the Doric.
  • MountsfieldPark
    MountsfieldPark Posts: 2,074
    I'm not overly keen on a cedilla, but it's not a matter of acute concern.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Love the North East Scotland, Aberdeenshire accent.

    Also soft Irish accents and West Country.

    All female obviously, don't about blokes accents
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,763
    I absolutely hate the Essex mockney accent and the Scouse accents annoys me also.
    My favourite accents has to be the Boston ( American) accent and I quite like the West Country accent .




  • Tunwellsaddick
    Tunwellsaddick Posts: 2,453
    Love Gordie, West Country, and the soft sounding Dublin accent.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,838
    Love the Geordie accent, also "educated" Yorkshire, Cumbria, Devon, Dorset.

    I laugh at the way something said in a Glaswegian accent, no matter how polite or even tender, sounds like a particularly nasty threat.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,853
    Stokey is awful - and I have to put up with it every day!

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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,344
    bobmunro said:

    Stokey is awful - and I have to put up with it every day!

    I hate Stoke term of endearment "Duck' (pronounced "Dook") - very annoying.
  • cblock
    cblock Posts: 1,962
    William Hague's accent rally annoys me. Posh yorkie
  • cblock
    cblock Posts: 1,962
    William Hague's accent really annoys me. posh yorkie
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,469
    Davo55 said:

    Love the Geordie accent, also "educated" Yorkshire, Cumbria, Devon, Dorset.

    I laugh at the way something said in a Glaswegian accent, no matter how polite or even tender, sounds like a particularly nasty threat.

    I love Glaswegian for exactly that reason.

    I'll add to the love of Welsh accents, and also throw in the West Country accent. It sounds a bit silly in such a lovely and charming way.

    Love a proper Geordie accent. Ditto Mancunian. Someone said a soft Scouse accent is nice, and I totally agree. Have a posh scouse friend and the combination of well spoken but also slightly scouse is fantastically hilarious.

    I used to live in Norwich, and some East Anglian accents are really lovely. Others less so...
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Chizz said:

    I have never heard a South African who sounds intelligent

    You've met my ex-wife then .
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    Geordie accent on a bird goes up a treat. ;)

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