Accents

[Pop Cider]

Louie Spence gets on my 'Katarinas'. The camp voice is BAD. Okay so your'e gay, so why have a mincing voice, just talk in the normal accent of your region.

Hate the way Cockneys say axe instead of ask, like they were all born in Jamaica.

[Torn Sock]

Still not as bad as Alan Carr!!(Not the 1 that posts on here!) 

[so jah seh]

Hate the black country (in particular Cannock) accent....horrid memories of a close escape!

Love the lilting Gaelic (that's Gallic NOT GAYlic) Scottish accent of the highlands and islands.

[craigies6pack]

Don't mind a proper Scouse accent - also Wirral accent.

Best for me is Irish, could listen to it all day.

Worst - Skank Scouse and Droning Cockney.

[own brain]

stoke accent has also been on telly a lot with the darts boys..... another dull dreary drone.

[Steve]

Pops! 'Katerinas'! Yes!

I work in the Midlands, a place where a barm is called a roll!
(Barms have so many names, but that's another topic!!)

So in the Midlands the other staff takes the mickey out of my northern accent, in particular, the way I pronounce the letters "air" as "urr" when in the middle of a word.
For instance - to me 'fairies' become 'furries', and the name 'Claire' becomes 'Clurre'.

I did used to do the 'fower', 'flowwer', 'dower' thing (floor, four, door) but have grown out of that one more easily!

[Abacab]

When I worked in Runcorn I used to get the mickey taken as I was always saying nightmare mate, or as I was told: nightmerr mrrtt. It's amazing what plazzy scousers find funny.

[Glynn]

spoke to two off the above mentioned accents today, stoke which sounds brummie and a geordie lass top accent.

[baby-elvis]

At the risk of upsetting most of the people on here, and I say this only as someone who has moved around a bit (military father), so I have a very neutral accent

But I find the Widnes accent can really get on my nerves at times 

[mick george]

Jody Fosters accent in silence of the lambs does it for me 

I like the South Wales Accent don't mind the brummies but hate the cockney and plastis scouse accents , where they get it from i do not really know as i don,t think any of them has ever visited Liverpooland they are third generation but have the stupid accent.

[efcviking]

Live with a girl from Middlesbrough, and some of the sayings she comes out with are quality!

Love the Aus one and Irish!

[johnf]

I lived down in Hampshire for a while and like the rural accent (same as John Arlott commentating on the cricket many years ago) and I also like the Somerset, Devon and Cornwall accents. At work many years ago I once took a phone call from a young lady in Scotland and immediately fell in love with her accent.

I really dislike the braying Home Counties accent.

[Coulton]

I can't abide the lazy "estuary English" accent - "teef" for teeth, "fevver" for feather. 

[Rickp]

I can't abide the lazy "estuary English" accent - "teef" for teeth, "fevver" for feather. 

Me too Coults & free instead of three. Just bone idle if you ask me.

[Peter]

spoke to two off the above mentioned accents today, stoke which sounds brummie and a geordie lass top accent.

I don't know how you get that, Glynn. Stoke sounds more Nottingham than Brummie. I have lived down here for thirty years, and the Shelton Works in Stoke-on-Trent was one of my favourite places.

Birmingham, Black Country, and Dudley are all quite different accents.  There are the weems and youms, the yow-yows, and the Toys R Us in Dudley is called Toys Am We.