Who has the strongest accent?

According to a poll conducted by YouGov, Americans believe Boston is the one place in the United States with the strongest regional accent, with the Southern Coast trailing behind in second place. In the survey of 1,216 American adults interviewed, 23 percent said Boston has the strongest accent.
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What country has the strongest accent?

The 5 countries with the strongest English accents
  • Scottish accent.
  • Irish accent.
  • Australian accent.
  • Southern American accent.
  • South African accent.
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Which accent of English 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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What is the most well known accent?

Sociolinguist William Labov dubbed the New York accent the most recognizable accent in North American English. Not surprisingly, many of its attributes have entered the popular American lexicon.
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What is the hottest accent?

#1 The British accent

The year 2020 saw the British accent ranked No. 1 on the list. It was crowned the sexiest accent in the world with 25 percent of the total votes. The accent proved particularly popular in countries like China, Sweden, India and the USA.
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What is the prettiest 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 thickest 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 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 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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Which US state has the strongest accent?

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 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 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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What is the ugliest accent in America?

“The Western Pennsylvania English accent is often considered the ugliest in all of America, so Pittsburgh locals can feel lucky that they've escaped last place this time around,” the staff at Big 7 Travel wrote in a ranking released last week that asserts Pittsburghers have the 46th least sexy accent in the nation.
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Is British or American 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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What is the true English accent?

The “how” – British accent vs American accent

In all reality, the standard British accent was the one that changed significantly in the last two centuries while the American accent stayed more or less the same. During the American Revolution, the English language started to change in Britain.
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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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What is the weirdest British accent?

The 'Brummie' accent 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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Is American or British accent better?

Very Formal :- British words are more formal than American accents . The changeable accent is sometimes harder to understand . That is why British English and its accent is used extensively in formal environment .
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What's the hottest language?

The votes are in and it's unanimous: French is the sexiest language in the history of ever. To make things even steamier, French is a legit Romance language along with Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and a few others, named as such because of their Latin roots.
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Which country has the sexist accent?

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 hottest accent for men?

As for the single men? 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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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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What states have accents?

American Accents (Geographic)
  • Maine Accent.
  • New England English.
  • Pacific Northwest English.
  • California English.
  • Midwestern American English.
  • Southern American English.
  • Hawaii English And Pidgin.
  • New Orleans And Cajun English.
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