What's the hardest British accent to understand?

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 authentic British accent?

Received Pronunciation (RP)

Nevertheless, RP remains the national standard and has traditionally been considered by many to be the most prestigious accent of British English.
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What is the easiest British accent to learn?

  • England has an extraordinary variety of accents for such a small kingdom. ...
  • The generic southern English accent is probably the easiest. ...
  • I'd be cautious of strong regional dialects, you'll sound okay to those who don't know any better but a local will spot you a mile off.
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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 least attractive English accent?

The Birmingham accent is considered the least attractive accent in the British Isles – and Southern Irish the most appealing. A quick analysis of English dialects shows that there are roughly as many in the British Isles as there are in the whole of North America – including Canada, Bermuda and Native American dialects ...
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The 5 Hardest British Accents to Understand!



Who has the thickest British accent?

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 hardest English 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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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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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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Who has the hottest accent?

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 weirdest American accent?

Below are the most prominent examples, with some links to video samples.
  • 1.) The Newfoundland Accent. Newfoundland, a rugged island off the coast of far Eastern Canada, was a separate dominion of the British Empire until 1949. ...
  • 2.) Gullah. This is technically a creole language, not a dialect. ...
  • 3.) Ocracoke Brogue.
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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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What is the most neutral British accent?

Received Pronunciation (RP) is the proper term to describe the regionally neutral accent used by many middle-class speakers in the UK, particularly in England.
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What is the most confusing English accent?

We'll start with the most obvious one: the Kiwis! In terms of geography, they are quite removed from the rest of the world, and their unique accent is definitely a reflection of that. The New Zealand vowel system has undergone what linguists consider a “shift” in pronunciation.
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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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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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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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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 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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Why don't Americans have a 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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What's the cutest accent?

The French accent has been considered for many years as being the sexiest accent in the world.
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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 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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Why do British people say bloody?

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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