What is the weirdest British accent?

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"Brummie" is also a demonym for people from Birmingham. It is often erroneously used in referring to all accents of the West Midlands, as it is markedly distinct from the traditional accent of the adjacent Black Country, but modern-day population mobility has tended to blur the distinction.
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is considered to be the ugliest accent in the British Isles, according to a new poll from YouGov. The UK and Ireland has a massive range of accents for such small islands - we have the same amount of dialects as the whole of North America- including Canada, Bermuda and Native American dialects.
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What is the most weird English accent?

Geordie. People from Newcastle speak a dialect called Geordie, which is one of the strongest and most distinctive accents in England.
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What is the most difficult British accent?

Which UK accents are harder to transcribe than others? This is our list of the top ten areas of difficult regional UK accents:
  • Glaswegian.
  • Geordie (Newcastle and Tyneside)
  • Scouse (Merseyside)
  • Black Country (Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall areas)
  • West and South Yorkshire.
  • Leicestershire.
  • Cockney (Greater London)
  • Essex.
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What is the most annoying English 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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What is the least attractive accent in the UK?

The Cornish accent is apparently not everyone's cup of tea and was recently voted the least sexy accent in the UK. A poll, which aimed to find the UK's sexiest accent, was carried out by the dating app Match. Outrageously, 87% of the 2,300 participants voted that the Cornish accent is not sexy.
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Top 10 Hardest UK Accents To Imitate



What is the coolest British accent?

So, want to know which region came top? It was the 'Welsh accent', whatever that is, with 20 points. This was closely followed by the Yorkshire accent, with a total of 15. The top five was rounded out by the West Country (13), Newcastle (10) and Northern Ireland (five).
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What is the cutest English accent?

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 is the hottest British accent?

The Mancunian accent has taken the top spot as the dialect that gets the nation's attention the most. High-profile figures such as Liam Gallagher and Marcus Rashford who both boast the Manchester accent are among those lucky enough to claim they have the sexiest one in the UK.
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What is the hottest English accent?

Here are the top ten sexiest accents according to that survey:
  • Geordie.
  • Welsh.
  • Received Pronunciation, Queen's English.
  • Yorkshire.
  • Glaswegian.
  • Cockney.
  • Brummie.
  • Cornish.
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Who has the nicest accent?

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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The most liked foreign accents
  • British: 69%
  • Australian: 54%
  • Irish: 36%
  • French: 34%
  • Scottish: 29%
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What is the oldest British accent?

Geordie. As the oldest English dialect still spoken, Geordie normally refers to both the people and dialect of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in Northeast England.
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What is the hardest accent to imitate?

The British Accent

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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Which English accent is easy?

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 fancy accent?

The French accent, previously considered the sexiest in the world, has been dethroned by the British accent, aka the Queen's English, in a global study carried out by Time Out in over 30 countries.
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Is the American accent attractive?

8.7 percent of survey respondents picked the American accent as the hottest in the world.
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What is the best 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 do Americans think of British accent?

35% of Americans say British accents are attractive, while only 6% say they are obnoxious. To American women, the attraction is even greater. 39% of them say a British accent is alluring compared to 31% of US men. 49% of Americans are unphased by British tones, saying the accent is neither attractive nor obnoxious.
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What is the hottest 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 is the cleanest English accent?

Some people believe that RP (Received Pronunciation) is the most standard or general accent in British English. Many EFL (English as a Foreign Language) schools teach it because it is supposed to be the most “polished” pronunciation.
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Which American accent is closest to British?

Possibly the closest US American accent to British (sounding and geographically) is mid-Atlantic. This is typically spoken by a US American who has lived a long time in Britain, or vice versa a Brit who spent years in the US.
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Who speaks the clearest English?

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.
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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 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 race spoke English first?

Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English today is a constantly changing language that has been influenced by a plethora of different cultures and languages, such as Latin, French, Dutch, and Afrikaans.
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