What is the nicest accent in the world?

1. Irish. The Voquent community has spoken! And this time around, the Irish accent has come out on top with more than half the votes as the world's sexiest accent.
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What is the most attractive accent in the world?

According to a recent poll in the Independent, the British accent has been chosen as being the most attractive accent in the world, beating the French accent which was once know as the loveliest accent.
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What are the nicest accents?

The melodic Spanish accent ranked the highest, with 88% of respondents putting it above all others. The Irish accent took out the silver medal for women (77%) while the romantic Italian accent snagged third place (68%).
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What is the most loved accent?

Let's dig deeper into the top three most well-liked accents.
  • British. More than half of respondents (52%) said they like the British accent, a greater percentage than for any other dialect. ...
  • Australian. ...
  • French. ...
  • Welsh. ...
  • Korean. ...
  • Swedish.
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What are the top 10 most attractive accents?

The survey featured 1250 males and 1250 females, with respondents able to pick more than one option. Among the sexiest accents according to women were Scottish, Irish, Italian, French and Spanish, while for men it was Spanish, Brazillian Portuguese, Australian, French and American. Check out the full lists.
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The world’s top accents rated by attractiveness. Where does yours come?



What is the ugliest accent?

The "Scranton accent" is getting national attention. Scranton is the number 2 seed in gawker.com's contest for "America's Ugliest Accent." It's sometimes called "Coal Region speak."
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What is the hottest female accent?

The Accents Favoured By Women
  • Italian – 68%
  • French – 61%
  • Spanish – 56%
  • Brazilian Portuguese – 48%
  • Queen's English – 47%
  • Australian – 35%
  • South African – 29%
  • Mexican – 23%
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What is the most annoying accent?

Preply, a Brookline-based online language learning platform, took a survey of more than 1,700 people across the country on the most loved and hated accents. The Boston accent came out on top as the most annoying, followed by the Midwestern accent.
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Which accent is best for English?

British accent has been rated as the most attractive English accent in the world, according to a new survey by the CEOWORLD magazine. The results were revealed in a global study, which questioned 96,398 people across 32 countries worldwide to list “most attractive English accents” other than their own.
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What is the least attractive accent?

According to a Big 7 Travel survey, the accent found among New Jerseyans has the least sex appeal compared to the state accents. "Poor New Jersey dropped down one place from 2019 to end up in the last spot this year, making it the least sexy accent in America.
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Is Italian or French sexier?

The landslide winner of libidinous languages was French, which ravished a full 50 percent of voters' affection. Italian came in as the next sexiest language, with 29 percent of votes, followed by English with 15 percent, and German came up dry with only 6 percent.
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Which English accent is hardest?

There are many, very distinct, British accents. It's true that Indian accent is the most difficult one in the world to understand.
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Is UK or US English better?

In the main, British English and American English are very similar, even with differences in spelling. In today's world, American spelling is probably winning thanks to Microsoft's spell checker. There are vocabulary differences and some can cause embarrassing situations if you only know one flavour.
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Where is the purest English spoken?

FOR years, the people of Inverness have revelled in the proud boast that they speak the best English on the planet. Their clear and melodious pronunciation of the language has been applauded by linguistic experts and dialect experts across the globe.
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What is the most American accent?

New York City English

This accent can be found throughout New York as well as in areas of New Jersey and Long Island. According to the renowned American linguist William Labov, the New York accent is often perceived as the “most American” as it's the one that appears all the time in popular culture.
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What is a Filipino accent?

Philippine English is a rhotic accent mainly due to the influence of Philippine languages, which are the first language of most of its speakers.
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What states have the strongest accents?

According to Americans, the place in the US with the strongest accent is Boston, with 23% of people choosing this response. Another 16% say the Southern coast has the strongest regional accent, while New York and Texas were tied, with 13% saying these states had the strongest accents.
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What accents do guys like?

According to a press release, Cupid.com surveyed 2,000 men and women and determined that 36.5 percent of respondents voted the Southern accent the most attractive, with more men preferring it over women.
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What is Harry Styles accent?

Get our free View from Westminster email. Harry Styles perplexed fans during a recent interview with Zane Lowe as he spoke with an odd mix of an Australian and American accent, with a British twang thrown in for good measure. “I cannot stomach the change in his lovely northern accent,” one listener mourned.
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Which country has the best English accent in the world?

The Netherlands has emerged as the nation with the highest English language proficiency, according to the EF English Proficiency Index, with a score of 72. It is ahead of five other northern European nations at the top of the chart.
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How did Americans lose the British accent?

The first is isolation; early colonists had only sporadic contact with the mother country. The second is exposure to other languages, and the colonists came into contact with Native American languages, mariners' Indian English pidgin and other settlers, who spoke Dutch, Swedish, French and Spanish.
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How many different accents are there?

Worldwide, there are over 160. Keep an eye out for them and get to know where people are from. Accents and dialects can bring people close together or farther apart, but we hope, with a certain perspective about dialects and accents, that our curiosities about them will bring us closer together.
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Why do British people say bloody?

Don't worry, it's not a violent word… it has nothing to do with “blood”.”Bloody” is a common word to give more emphasis to the sentence, mostly used as an exclamation of surprise. Something may be “bloody marvellous” or “bloody awful“. Having said that, British people do sometimes use it when expressing anger…
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Why do the British say mum?

What you are hearing is not mum as in mother, but ma'am, contraction of madam, with a strongly reduced vowel. In British English, it is mostly used as a sign of repect for a woman of superior rank, say, in the military or police.
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Are Americans friendly?

That being said, Americans are, on the whole, very friendly people and happy to help when asked. (Southerners have a well-earned reputation as the most hospitable people in the country, and will often go out of their way to make a foreigner feel more at home.)
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