What is the nicest American accent?

Overwhelmingly, people like the Southern accent best, followed by British and Australian accents. Southern accents tend to be thought of as friendly and welcoming, while British and Australian accents are more exotic.
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What is the most attractive American accent?

Bostonian. One of America's most imitated and parodied accents, Boston almost comes out on top of the country's sexiest accents.
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What are Americans favorite accent?

Americans seem to love British accents, according to a recent study. Preply.com reports British accents were favored among foreign accents for both men and women.
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What is the most attractive accent?

The French accent has been considered for many years as being the sexiest accent in the world.
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What is the hardest accent to speak?

The Great British accent proved to be the most difficult of all the accents to imitate – along with the regional Yorkshire and Cockney pronunciations, in particular.
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Is American accent attractive?

8.7 percent of survey respondents picked the American accent as the hottest in the world.
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What accent do girls like the most?

The British, Australian, and French accents were deemed Americans' favorite, as well as the accents they find sexiest. The Welsh, Korean, and South African accents are the least sexually appealing for respondents, rounding out the bottom in that category.
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What states have the best accent?

Here is what they came up with for the top 10 sexiest American accents:
  • Texan.
  • Bostonian.
  • New York.
  • Mainer.
  • Chicago.
  • Mississippi.
  • Hawaiian.
  • Philadelphia.
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What accents are hottest on men?

Turns out, the gruff yet lilting Scottish accent took out the top spot for women (hello, Outlander's Sam Heughan), with 86% of the 1,250 women surveyed listing it as 'the sexiest accent'. As for the single men? The melodic Spanish accent ranked the highest, with 88% of respondents putting it above all others.
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Is American or British accent sexier?

Of foreign accents, the British accent is the #1 most liked, chosen by 69% of respondents. In addition to being the general favorite, it also ranked among the sexiest and most intelligent.
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Is American the easiest accent?

Option 1: the American accent

The most popular English accent of them all. Spread around the world by American cinema, music, television and more than 350 million North Americans (including Canadians, eh), this is the easiest accent for most people to understand, whether native speakers or non-native speakers.
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What is the most neutral American accent?

The idea that there is one accent that is the most neutrally American has been around for a long time, and it is usually called “General American.” The term was coined in 1925 by the descriptive linguist George Philip Krapp as a way to describe the accent he thought was becoming the norm in the United States.
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What area of us has no accent?

While General American is not restricted to any one region in the United States, it is most commonly spoken in the Midland region. As such, the terms Midland accent and General American are often used synonymously. The Midland region covers parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Ohio.
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What is the sexist accent?

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 accent is the least attractive?

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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What do British call Americans?

Yankee is sometimes abbreviated as “Yank.” People from all over the world, including Great Britain, Australia, and South America, use the term to describe Americans.
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What are M&Ms called in England?

Smarties

In other words, Smarties are the British version of M&M's, except they are made with Cadbury chocolate.
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What do Americans call chocolate?

Americans sometimes refer to chocolate as candy, or just simply chocolate.
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What is a lazy accent?

The Australian accent is often described as a 'lazy' form of English.
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What are the cutest accents?

Here are five of the sexiest accents in the world revealed in the survey:
  • #1 The British accent. Image: Courtesy IMDb. ...
  • #3 The Italian accent. Image: Courtesy donatella_versace/Instagram. ...
  • #4 The Spanish accent. Image: Courtesy ricky_martin/Instagram. ...
  • #5 The Irish accent. Image: Courtesy peakyblindersofficial/Instagram.
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When did Americans lose their British accent?

Most scholars have roughly located “split off” point between American and British English as the mid-18th-Century. There are some clear exceptions.
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Do other countries like American accent?

Abroad, American accents are most likely to be considered “friendly,” (34 percent of non-U.S. respondents), “straight-forward” (27 percent), and “assertive” (20 percent).
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Who has a general American accent?

Topher Grace and Rashida Jones are two great examples of the General American dialect, although many actors have what can be considered a neutral accent.
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