Accents , Which Is The One You Dislike The Most And The One You Like?

[Bobbisox1]

I like the Liverpudlian accent , the Scottish accent but not the Glaswegian one, the southern Irish one but not keen on the very Brum one, like the West Country ooh rah ooh rah and the Bristolian one

[Moorea7]

Cheers Wiltsman 16.20.

[wiltsman]

Moorea7
Difference between 'accent' and 'dialect'.

I thought I'd check with Google who told me this:
An accent is simply how one pronounces words—a style of pronunciation. A dialect includes not just pronunciations, but also one's general vocabulary and grammar.

[ToraToraTora]

16:08, what are you talking about no one in the south says snore instead of snow. eg Paddy McGuinness says Torkeyor instead of Tokyo.

[ToraToraTora]

I can stop using the R to illustrate....
Tawkeyaw - Tokyo, Snaw - Snow, Shaw - Show.

[naomi24]

I know what you mean, TTT - and you’re right. That’s not a southern thing.

[-SharonA-]

The worse has got to be the German accent. So harsh & guttural. Eve. When they say I love you, Ich leibe dich, not romantic at all.

[bhg481]

TTT //no one in the south says snore instead of snow. // Oh, yes they do. It's snoring outside (heard very rarely because it doesn't in our part of Berkshire). I hear an "R" inserted into words all the time but never in Lancs. The difficulty in explaining this is that there is no standard pronunciation in English eg, I live in Reading - is it reeding or redding? And what about the "ough" words? Is it "Grass" and "Bath" or "Graaas" and "Baath" or, even, "Barth? Who is right? The old folk talk about "hosses" in the north but the old rhyme is "ride a cock HORSE to Banbury CROSS; or is it "Ride a cock hoss to Banbury Cross" or "Ride a cock horse to Banbury Crorse"? You tell me.

[ToraToraTora]

remember uncle Albert....

[ToraToraTora]

16:51, never heard anyone say "its snoring outside" where have you heard that?

[Bobbisox1]

I’m lost saying the Northerners say hosses , I’ve never heard anyone here say hosses for horses

[bednobs]

I've been trying to work out how law doesn't rhyme with bore???

[ToraToraTora]

....a mate of mine was married to a woman from Carlisle and she used to insert a w into some words, eg Moore became Moower!

[ToraToraTora]

TBH though accents are at worst a minor irritation compared to complete mis pronounciations....eg aks instead of ask and nucular! aaaarrrrgggghhhh!

[smurfchops]

I love Southern Ireland, Liverpool as well. Don’t like Lorraine Kelly’s accent, it makes my teeth go funny.

[DTCwordfan]

Brummie ones, no awfully nasal and Norfolk, so lazy - words like 'noos' instead of 'news'.

And I won't be rude about Geordie ones when you have already slandered the Cornish and Devonian accents....or maybe I will - Geordie - 'mar arow avel tin brogh'

[bhg481]

TTT is common in my part of Berkshire

Bobbi - I did say Old Northerners - my grandfather's generation used "Hosses" and id you ever hear Harver Smith (showjumper) talk about his mounts?

TTT - moower, yes, my Lacastrian neice would say that, as well as "skewal" for school. I grew up reading books, now I read bucks but a fellow Lancastrian, who lives in Hampshire, still reads boooks. Do you wear booots or bucks when you go hiking?

[Bobbisox1]

Oi DTC, I said OI likes the West Country ooh arr- ooh arr

[Arksided]

Draclia does my head in... Bro having just come back from Whitby
"Yeah we went to see castle and everything about Draclia"
Arky "Dracula"
Bro. "yeah Draclia"
Arky "It's pronounced Drac-u-lar"
Bro "Anyway Draclia was great we loved it... [i]

[Cloverjo]

Being a Somerset girl who travels to Essex for family, I am aware that my accent makes me sound like a country bumpkin. I don't usually notice it, but going from Reading onward it's almost like going to a different country

[Bobbisox1]

CJ , that’s what I love about accents, how they change within miles,travel north from here to Ashington and it’s a foreign land , they speak ‘ pit yakker’