What do you think of british accents?

Question

i was born in us but raised in both london and lackawanna ny

i hate jet lag

Answer 1

its the best

Answer 2

The British accent varies a lot depending on where you are in the country. Mostly it is nice, apart from the London cockneys who just sound stupid everytime they start talking.

Answer 3

some are rate, especially in the North of England. Like the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Cumbrian accents. Not too Fond of the Sotuhern English accent, or a Brummy Accent, or a Scouse accent, Or any Welsh Accent or Any Scottish Accent

Answer 4

The Liverpool, Birmingham, Black Country, Glasgow and London accents grate on my ears. Geordie and Norfolk are quirky while Lowland Scots, Somerset, Cornish, Welsh and Yorkie are euphonious but my all-time favourite is the Lankie burr of Burnley. Just my opinion.

Answer 5

one of the best accent

Answer 6

Yeah I hate jet lag I was up 33 hours without any sleep cause of jetlag. I absolutely love london accents, just came back last night from london to the USA and I really miss the really heavy and sharp british accents.

Answer 7

Absolutely fabulous. From an American girl's perspective they are extremely attractive. Each accent is different and unique to that individual. British accents are so interesting. You could be the most boring person on the planet but if you had a British accent well then your not so boring, as much! British accents make everything better! (god, I can't wait to go to England in December!!!!!!)

Answer 8

Awesome.  =)

Answer 9

I love British accents -- they're so varied that there are probably nearly as many as there are of us Brits. =D

Not just the ones everyone thinks of, either, like the rich Devon accent, or the Geordie one that practically no one gets right when they try to mimic it (when I first visited Norway, I kept thinking the locals there had Geordie accents -- you realise that the Vikings never went away from the North-East of England)...

There are always new British accents to discover. I fell in love with the voice of an elderly man I was chatting to on the train last week. He came over years ago when Idi Amin expelled the Asians who were living in Uganda. He set up a business in Glasgow, and his accent is a glorious mix of Ugandan-Indian and Glaswegian. But it's genuinely British, too; as much so as the London-Sri Lankan accents of many of my friends here in west London.

Too more delights I remember from childhood...

my Norfolk aunty's burring voice -- she used to say stuff like "I'll be there presently, my beauty", ("I'll" and "my" sounded almost like "oil" and "moy")...

or the way my dad's godmother would speak when she wasn't "in company". If we fell and grazed our knees in the garden, she used to say "come an' have a cuddle, tha' bonny lass" (or "lad" to my brother!) ("come" and "cuddle" both pronounced with a short "oo" like "book".) Now she was from Brighouse in Yorkshire, but the accent there has altered in the past generations and is now more like Bradford's. (She'd have said "Bratfort").

I love a lot of American accents, too. We have family on the west coast, north of Seattle. The only people I've heard who sound like their patriarch, 'Grandpa Bob', who grew up in Alaska, were a bunch of blokes on a TV programme a few months ago -- Ice Road Truckers.

It's good to hear different voices -- they're a celebration of the wonderful variety of humanity.

=D

Love from a very English-sounding Londoner.