How we sound in the UK

**fingal** · 10-21-2005

Hi - I love the BBC website. There's a section devoted to how we sound these days. One of the charms of the UK is the way we speak and how different the local accents are.

Follow this link if you like accents.

**techieMoe** · 10-21-2005

I for one consider British accents on women quite sexy, regardless of the regional twist. Haha.

**PsypherPunk** · 10-21-2005

Accents are indeed, great. My parents are from London (cockney accents abound), my grandparents from Cornwall and i'm from the North. My sister's managed to gain a Lancashire accent but unfortunately i have a completely generic non-accent. Which is depressing, especially when your girlfriend tells you you'd sound sexier with a cockney accent

**carlosponti** · 10-21-2005

Originally Posted by techieMoe

I for one consider British accents on women quite sexy, regardless of the regional twist. Haha.

i agree one thing in the us that some guys go for is a soft southern states accent. united states has some rather interesting dialects propbly not as elegant as most english ones but definately interesting.

**techieMoe** · 10-21-2005

Originally Posted by carlosponti

i agree one thing in the us that some guys go for is a soft southern states accent. united states has some rather interesting dialects propbly not as elegant as most english ones but definately interesting.

Originally Posted by PsypherPunk

Accents are indeed, great. My parents are from London (cockney accents abound), my grandparents from Cornwall and i'm from the North. My sister's managed to gain a Lancashire accent but unfortunately i have a completely generic non-accent. Which is depressing, especially when your girlfriend tells you you'd sound sexier with a cockney accent

Yes, the US regional accents can be interesting as well, particularly when they're covered up or faked. The newscasters on CNN and other national American news broadcasts (as well as many actors) are trained to not use regional twangs in public speaking. Interestingly enough, when accents are used in movies they're almost always greatly exaggerrated (take the southern drawls in Varsity Blues or Happy, Texas for example).

Presidents have been known to show their accents as well. I found an interesting article on this:

http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/st.../presidential/

My family comes predominantly from the South (Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia), but our accents are all over the place. I have done my best to lose the southern accent all together, but it still pops up when I'm tired.

**linux.newb** · 10-21-2005

Its all about that Canadian accent eh?

**TomX** · 10-21-2005

Scousers have the best accent (I live in Merseyside, lucky me).

I think Cornwall'ers have posh accents, one of my teachers has a Cornwall'ish accent, was strange in the beginning.

In fact, another teacher I had, had a Irish accent which was strange to get used to.

He pronoucned edges as "ages".

**benjamin20** · 10-21-2005

i think the asian accents are funny.

**Anonymous1c4** · 10-21-2005

Originally Posted by techieMoe

I for one consider British accents on women quite sexy, regardless of the regional twist. Haha.

especially the girl named Vanessa from the first Austin Powers movie...she is hot.

**techieMoe** · 10-21-2005

Originally Posted by Anonymous1c4

Originally Posted by techieMoe

I for one consider British accents on women quite sexy, regardless of the regional twist. Haha.

especially the girl named Vanessa from the first Austin Powers movie...she is hot.

My recent interest has been the detective on Nip/Tuck, played with a British accent by the lovely Rhona Mitra. She just drips sexy in that show.

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