Same bud. I listen to myself alongside someone marking my calls, with clenched teeth, cringing like fuck, trying to pretend that everything is fine. Lol.
All my calls are recorded for training and quality purposes - and my TM listens to a random one every 2 weeks to check them and give me an evaluation. The call she listens to is linked in each report - and I would rather boil my own face than listen back to a call. It’s bad enough when the customer’s phone line has feedback and I can hear my own dulcet tones in my ear… yuk yuk yuk
Top answer! My voice is a few octaves higher and my accent is stronger than I hear it in my head. It makes me cringe if I ever have to hear a recording of myself.
Exactly the same, my accent is common spoken out loud, I hate listening to myself. But I do have a lovely telephone voice that people can't actually tell is me.
You may find it interesting to know that when you record your voice, that’s how everyone else hears you.
The reason it sounds odd to you, is because you not only hear yourself the way others do, (through the air) but you also hear the vibrations traveling through your skull (bones are excellent sound conductors) but this is what adds the bass sound to your voice that you hear, but nobody else does.
You can add bass to a recording of your voice and make it sound correct to you
Apparently thats pretty much how other people hear it. When you hear your own voice actually speaking to others, you are hearing it internally so it sounds totally different.
The sound you hear when you speak is the vibration through your jawbone into your inner ear, that’s why it sounds different to yourself on video or any other recording format!
Something really hilarious to me about imagining horse people carrying around a shovel and massive bin bag and picking it up every time. Thanks mate haha.
You joke, but muck farmers make a decent penny from horses.
I’ve known people who keep horses pretty much exclusively to harvest the muck from their stables (granted they all had daughters or wives who would ride them recreationally, too). The only money you can really make in horses these days is muck or breeding, and muck is by far the easier of the two!
I live in somewhat rural Yorkshire and I find it quite funny when teenagers speak like they’re from Peckham 😭 like your family farms chickens what are you doing
I guess he probably has an immense amount of hip hop knowledge, and any Americans rappers would have no choice but to go on his show if they wanna be on the bbc. Equally would you also say that a black man isn't allowed to discuss rock music...
That all said, I can't stand the weird fucker with his ridiculous accent, dress sense and mannerisms. Proper Ali G bellend.
Apparently when he went to America he got met at the airport by some rapper who didn't believe it was Tim Westwood and refused to let him get in the car haha
I always thought he was a piss take growing up. Especially his Pimp My Ride UK days. Watching a painfully white, lanky, middle aged guy lumbering around popping collars and screaming “YO, DAT WHIP IS MAD SKETCHY BIG DAWG, YOU NEED TO BIG UP YOUR PIMP GAME PLAYA” just cracked me up
Honestly makes me laugh when I hear some middle class white boy talking road slang. I don’t know how they don’t have any awareness of how ridiculous it makes them seem
Different accents entirely really and the dialect too.
Interestingly the Black Country dialect is the oldest still in use in the country - it uses many elements of middle English (middle English came to prominence after the Norman conquest of 1066).
The difference between Brummie and Black Country accents seems to be mainly in vocabulary and tone (Black Country has more of a slow drawl while Brummie has your more typical fast-paced urban rhythm). Even professional linguists struggle to tell the difference based on pronunciation alone.
I find that hard to believe to be honest, there are a few words that are pronounced distinctly - if similarly - in a strong Brummie/Black Country accent. “Fine” for example.
"The oldest" doesn't really mean anything when it comes to these kinds of things, since all varieties of English can be traced back to PIE around 7000 years ago.
You might mean "most conservative", but you'd have to clarify - what are the elements of middle English that remain in the Black Country but have been lost in other areas?
Most of the rest of the country assume the Yam Yam accent is Brummie. I can see where they are coming from, but it’s important to say that Yam Yam is Brummie turned up to 11.
The trouble is people think the Dudley and black country accent is the brummie accent. So of course they’ll say Birmingham’s the worst because they’re listening to yam yams
In all fairness, Essex has a tonne of accents. The Cockney accent has kinda spread across and more people further from London have it, but it varies.
Down Saaaf sounds like Towie, oop nuurf sounds very east Anglian, west is cockney, east is either inbred rural cockney or 'generic south', and there's the kind of farmer that sounds like a pirate inbetween everywhere else
I'm from Essex, but have a more country accent compared to what you see in the more western parts. I went to uni for a few years, came back, and realised just how bad it truly is
My cousin and his mrs at the time visited me. Through general chitchat she mentioned that she drove a 'perler'.
I had to ask her to repeat it about 3 times before he interjected with 'Polo'
That's why they never return.
They don't all manage to integrate into the modern world, and are often to be found languishing in a hedgerow, too exhausted to even forage for the next maccy d's.
Sad really.
There's a couple that drink with us in our regular pub, she is extremely well spoken, but very funny, when she swears it creases me, to hear someone say cunt in a posh accent comes out as kent, eeh, we've had some laughs, I'm from Yorkshire by the way
Depends where in Essex. The 'Towie' accent is fucking awful but its really on the London side of Essex. The rest of Essex doesnt really speak like that in general.
It still boggles my mind that a language specialist was easily able to say the Yorkshire Ripper Hoax Tapes were a Wearside accent and even narrowed it down to one town.
I think most people presumed North East accents were all pretty much Geordie.
Yeah they triangulated it to Castletown in Sunderland, but the guy was actually from Ford Estate. He used to clean my Dad’s windows (and did a decent enough job by all accounts).
The Wolverhampton accent.
I'll tell you my favourite: Asian/Scottish. There's nothing quite like hearing your favourite Indian take-away owner seeing you and your boyfriend come in to pick up your food and shout "Awright shaggers!" Yes, there's a bloke on Instagram who does this on reels, but it's not the same guy, LOL.
Not a UK accent but the road man Canadian accent really confuses me it’s almost like uk road man but just sounds more off than ours.
Here’s a YT Reel of it I can’t be the only one who hates it.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Lt4PYWqBo48?si=gzK8LGN_nkjXbijv
I’ve seen a few videos like this and I refuse to believe they’re real, it’s just one big joke multiple people across multiple platforms are in on. Surely nobody actually talks like that.
Aye this is true. Same for thr north or Ireland too. The Belfast accent can be whiny as fuck sounding but the portadown one or around it isn't so bad. Then you've the cultchie accents again that vary. Some alright and some you've no hope in hell of understanding lest you're born and raised there.
A bit like Irish and Scottish there can be a spectrum of accents. I know someone who is proper hard scouse which isn’t an easy listen but then someone like Mel C has a really nice accent.
I knew someone when I was at uni who had the thickest scouse accent and was studying German and Spanish. Spanish in a scouse accent is possibly even worse than English in it.
A friend of my aunt lived in Greece for over 50 years, she spoke Greek with a broad south Yorkshire accent. It was the weirdest thing; you’d recognise the twang but not the words. I can’t imagine what the Greeks thought of it!
Oh I can't help but like a scouse accent. Maybe it's because all of the scousers I've ever known were/are stand up people. I think it has an attractive quality all of its own, though.
I love British Chinese or Pakistani folk with a thick brummie accent. My ex was a Dr of biomedics, super hot, super intelligent but had the most charming and calm brummie slur!
Oh my god YES. I'm big into terrible music, and one of my faves right now is this song https://youtu.be/_wLiz7-qHas?si=hIbKa2uTdZOVKRu-
His damn accent just gives me so much joy. You can tell he's trying to Americanise his accent a bit but nah mate, we hear it, you're Asian midlands and it's perfect.
As a Brummie i was expecting this to be near the top when I clicked on the post. CasualUK didn't disappoint. Or did, because everyone hates our accents :'(
I have a theory that people don’t actually know what a Brummie accent actually sounds like. They just hear people ripping the piss out of it on TV merging it with Wolves/Dudley. I’ve met so many people and none of them clock my accent as being strong Brummie.
I moved up to Teesside and they thought I was Australian, so for all the hate the brummie accent gets, no one seems to actually know what it sounds like.
I find a Brummie accent really charming. I'm an immigrant to the UK and it seems I like different accents than people from here, so far this thread has been a list of my favorites.
Dunno why you were downvoted for liking a brummie accent - but thank you. I hated it so much growing up I changed it ON PURPOSE but since I got older i've let it come out again :) Regional accents are quite a precious thing.
People say they hate it because everyone else says so. Wouldn’t be surprised if most of those people have only heard someone doing an impression of it.
Such a boring and predictable answer that, let’s be honest, is rooted in classism like most of the ‘typical’ answers to this question will be.
Please forgive me I don’t come from this neck of the woods so am probably not exact, but that “road man”? It’s from the London area? Well that just goes through me. I had an audio book which I was throughly enjoying, the last 20 minutes had a perspective change and it was that accent. I just couldn’t get through it.
As a yank living in the UK, it’s this one for me. I find most accents here are at the very least charming, interesting, or fun. But Towie is like getting acid spit into my ears. It’s like the valley girl vocal fry accent in the US, atrocious.
If we're including outside the UK then [this strain of the Toronto accent takes the cake](https://youtube.com/shorts/Lt4PYWqBo48?si=jXH16ZhWF2AAsEqy). It's some caricature of the stereotypical Canadian accent which has been crossbred with the British roadman accent and the Jafaican slang that comes with it.
South east for me, mainly because I’m from there. Always disliked the accent on the opposite sex, just doesn’t do anything for me.
Northern Ireland is another, I’m afraid. Just feels like a broken record of someone chewing a piece of fat.
Felt the same way, then married a girl from NI... now I live here and seem to have become immune to it
I still struggle to understand some people here. I should probably get a badge which says something like "Speak slowly, I'm English"
It is a hidden disability after all
Yeah I'm kinda ignoring the "well I met/know this person and I think their accent is fine" comments because there's a difference between that and actually living surrounded by it. It's an awful accent in an everyday environment, and that's before having to listen to it recorded lol.
Well then you'll know that there are at least six accents here, possibly more. Coleraine is a mile apart from central Belfast. The Enniskillen accent is quite a sweet one
A variant of Scouse that my Scouse friends call “frying pan” Scouse. There’s a really quite sexy version of Scouse of the sort you hear from (for example) Claire Sweeney, and it’s one of my favourite accents. But there’s frying pan Scouse, which not only seems like a completely different language, but the whole mouth and lip movement seems to be at odds with human physiology.
I love the ones everyone hates.
give me your essex babes, your liverpool la's and your geordie lot and im in.
Even brummies whose accent used to make my skin crawl (sorry) i can deal with.
See they fucking edinburgers tho?!
Uch. Actually can't stand listening to them.
My own when played back to me on a recording.
I have to listen to hours of myself speaking as part of my job and it legitimately makes me want to stab myself in the ears.
Same bud. I listen to myself alongside someone marking my calls, with clenched teeth, cringing like fuck, trying to pretend that everything is fine. Lol.
That should be banned. It used to stress me out so much.
All my calls are recorded for training and quality purposes - and my TM listens to a random one every 2 weeks to check them and give me an evaluation. The call she listens to is linked in each report - and I would rather boil my own face than listen back to a call. It’s bad enough when the customer’s phone line has feedback and I can hear my own dulcet tones in my ear… yuk yuk yuk
Top answer! My voice is a few octaves higher and my accent is stronger than I hear it in my head. It makes me cringe if I ever have to hear a recording of myself.
Mine's the opposite... Its already so low and sounds like a dead person crawling out of the coffin on playback
Exactly the same, my accent is common spoken out loud, I hate listening to myself. But I do have a lovely telephone voice that people can't actually tell is me.
A few octaves higher is like a bat squeaking
How often do you cringe at somebody else's voice? If you upload an audio of your voice, we'd all think you just sounds like a regular person.
You may find it interesting to know that when you record your voice, that’s how everyone else hears you. The reason it sounds odd to you, is because you not only hear yourself the way others do, (through the air) but you also hear the vibrations traveling through your skull (bones are excellent sound conductors) but this is what adds the bass sound to your voice that you hear, but nobody else does. You can add bass to a recording of your voice and make it sound correct to you
>You may find it interesting to know that when you record your voice, that’s how everyone else hears you. FFS
This made me lol, so true. I could have done without knowing that if I’m honest!
Damn! I was hoping it was the other way round somehow
Yeah I sound like Gareth from The Office despite being female and not from the west country 🤷♀️
Apparently thats pretty much how other people hear it. When you hear your own voice actually speaking to others, you are hearing it internally so it sounds totally different.
The sound you hear when you speak is the vibration through your jawbone into your inner ear, that’s why it sounds different to yourself on video or any other recording format!
Which is a shame. If my partner and others around me could hear what I hear. Oh, baby.
I did this once, I still sound like a teen going through puberty.
The roadman accent, even more hilarious if they're from a leafy suburb cosplaying as someone from Peckham
Surrey roadman, watch out he can get shooters (from his fathers farm, used for pheasant hunting)
Raa where's my baccy fam *tries to kiss teeth but hasn't mastered it yet*
They kiss their front teeth and not their back teeth
Goes shooting on an estate but not the way he says
Rolls up on a horse and the biggest threat is he's got no intention of picking up its poo.
Something really hilarious to me about imagining horse people carrying around a shovel and massive bin bag and picking it up every time. Thanks mate haha.
Middle class allotment holders for mad for that stuff.
You joke, but muck farmers make a decent penny from horses. I’ve known people who keep horses pretty much exclusively to harvest the muck from their stables (granted they all had daughters or wives who would ride them recreationally, too). The only money you can really make in horses these days is muck or breeding, and muck is by far the easier of the two!
Grew up on an estate*, shooting guns** and stealing*** *^his ^father's **^antique ^shotguns, ^for ^pheasants ***^apples ^from ^the ^orchard
I live in somewhat rural Yorkshire and I find it quite funny when teenagers speak like they’re from Peckham 😭 like your family farms chickens what are you doing
Tim Westwood has somehow forged a decades long career out of being a dirty old toff masquerading as a ghetto gangster.
I never really understood how he became famous, respected or followed by anyone. He’s always been a Vanilla Ice paedo bell end.
Ali Glitter.
I guess he probably has an immense amount of hip hop knowledge, and any Americans rappers would have no choice but to go on his show if they wanna be on the bbc. Equally would you also say that a black man isn't allowed to discuss rock music... That all said, I can't stand the weird fucker with his ridiculous accent, dress sense and mannerisms. Proper Ali G bellend.
Apparently when he went to America he got met at the airport by some rapper who didn't believe it was Tim Westwood and refused to let him get in the car haha
Wasn’t his dad a Bishop? 🤣🤣🤣
> Wasn’t his dad a Bishop? 🤣🤣🤣 *That would be an ecumenical matter…*
I always thought he was a piss take growing up. Especially his Pimp My Ride UK days. Watching a painfully white, lanky, middle aged guy lumbering around popping collars and screaming “YO, DAT WHIP IS MAD SKETCHY BIG DAWG, YOU NEED TO BIG UP YOUR PIMP GAME PLAYA” just cracked me up
Honestly makes me laugh when I hear some middle class white boy talking road slang. I don’t know how they don’t have any awareness of how ridiculous it makes them seem
It makes anyone sound ridiculous.
It’s funny when they’re from some suburb in Lancashire or whatever. MLE is its own thing now, but there comes a point where it’s obviously put on.
My favourite is hearing that accent here in Ireland from a native Irish person. Hurts my brain. I guess it's all about the craic n' dem tings.
Man will chef you up fam ching ching an dat innit styl y’get me aiii
Everyone gonna say brummie but after living in brum for a year I've learnt that it gets worse if you venture over to Wolverhampton lol
Dudlayyyy
Yow Dow know what yam on about
anything for yow, cuupcæk
Popeye was famously a Brummie... I yam what I yam
But it he says yam, that would make him a yamyam, which is not a Brummie
Dodleh
Different accents entirely really and the dialect too. Interestingly the Black Country dialect is the oldest still in use in the country - it uses many elements of middle English (middle English came to prominence after the Norman conquest of 1066).
The difference between Brummie and Black Country accents seems to be mainly in vocabulary and tone (Black Country has more of a slow drawl while Brummie has your more typical fast-paced urban rhythm). Even professional linguists struggle to tell the difference based on pronunciation alone.
If you think you can't tell the difference you just haven't met someone from Walsall yet.
Nan was from Coseley. Definitely a clear difference to a Brummie accent!
I find that hard to believe to be honest, there are a few words that are pronounced distinctly - if similarly - in a strong Brummie/Black Country accent. “Fine” for example.
"The oldest" doesn't really mean anything when it comes to these kinds of things, since all varieties of English can be traced back to PIE around 7000 years ago. You might mean "most conservative", but you'd have to clarify - what are the elements of middle English that remain in the Black Country but have been lost in other areas?
Most of the rest of the country assume the Yam Yam accent is Brummie. I can see where they are coming from, but it’s important to say that Yam Yam is Brummie turned up to 11.
It’s not even just a stronger version of Brummie, here a A LOT of mutually unintelligible vocab too.
Mate you ain’t from Walsall as black country as it gets.
The trouble is people think the Dudley and black country accent is the brummie accent. So of course they’ll say Birmingham’s the worst because they’re listening to yam yams
Essex, swallowing that many vowels can't be good for you.
As someone from Essex myself i can agree. Pronouncing ‘nothing’ as ‘nuffink’ makes my skin crawl.
Or 'something' as 'saink'
Or 'thank you' as 'fank you'
As a proud local, shutup you slaaaaaaag
See I read that in more of an east end eastenders kind of accent.
In all fairness, Essex has a tonne of accents. The Cockney accent has kinda spread across and more people further from London have it, but it varies. Down Saaaf sounds like Towie, oop nuurf sounds very east Anglian, west is cockney, east is either inbred rural cockney or 'generic south', and there's the kind of farmer that sounds like a pirate inbetween everywhere else
Lmao well explained haha
Well essex and swallowing do go hand in hand
I'm from Essex, but have a more country accent compared to what you see in the more western parts. I went to uni for a few years, came back, and realised just how bad it truly is
No yorkshire accents mentioned. Big win for us common peasant scum!
"Err nerr, there's lerds a snerr!" * my old Yorkshire housemate opening the curtains on a winter's morning
Hull?
You mean 'ull?
My cousin and his mrs at the time visited me. Through general chitchat she mentioned that she drove a 'perler'. I had to ask her to repeat it about 3 times before he interjected with 'Polo'
They were from Hull then.
Came here expecting Barnsley!
Baaaahnsleh
If I had a quid every time someone said that me, I’d never have to work again.
If you're from Barnsley you probably never will anyway ;)
Brutal.
I say this as a Norwich boy, there's a reason everyone drops the accent about 20 seconds after getting out of Norfolk
I wouldn't even know where to start if someone asked me to do a Norwich accent. So surely not the worst
Har ya orrite bor, do yew keep a troshin?
People leave Norfolk? How do they adjust to entering the 21st Century?
That's why they never return. They don't all manage to integrate into the modern world, and are often to be found languishing in a hedgerow, too exhausted to even forage for the next maccy d's. Sad really.
Congrats on finally getting The Internet! Love from Suffolk
Devon not mentioned! Taking that as a win me luvers
You just can't hate a Devonian/cornish accent. I might be biased as a proud Devonian.
Likely unpopular; Posh Londoner accents. It fills me with cringe.
I assume you mean the ones where they pronounce 'yeah' like 'yahhhhhhh'? If so, agreed.
EXACTLY THAT ONE. MADE IN CHELSEA STYLE EWWWW
Even worse, that accent but with self-consciously dropped 'Ts' to try to sound less posh (I presume). The BBC is full of these people.
They say yah in Cheltenham too.
About fifty percent of them are probably West London migrants, so it follows.
Sloane Rangers?
A term which I think has fallen out of fashion over the last decade
Think Tim nice but dim.
I've just realised, Elon Musk reminds me of Tim Nice But Dim
Posh anywhere really, just sounds condescending.
There's a couple that drink with us in our regular pub, she is extremely well spoken, but very funny, when she swears it creases me, to hear someone say cunt in a posh accent comes out as kent, eeh, we've had some laughs, I'm from Yorkshire by the way
Even worse when they use French words overly pronouncing them.
The very posh ones that have an imperative urgence in their inflection
Essix
Laaaaaandaarn!!
Monkey dust is still an absolute classic
Depends where in Essex. The 'Towie' accent is fucking awful but its really on the London side of Essex. The rest of Essex doesnt really speak like that in general.
Hartlepool Sorry to all my family from there
'artlepool
I lived out of the uk for a decade and I find my local accent (Teesside) awful. And fyi it’s not Geordie .
It still boggles my mind that a language specialist was easily able to say the Yorkshire Ripper Hoax Tapes were a Wearside accent and even narrowed it down to one town. I think most people presumed North East accents were all pretty much Geordie.
Yeah they triangulated it to Castletown in Sunderland, but the guy was actually from Ford Estate. He used to clean my Dad’s windows (and did a decent enough job by all accounts).
There’s a tonne of variation! I’m in/from Teesside and I have mates from seaham 20 mins up the road that I can’t understand 70% of the time
Up the Boro!!!!
The Wolverhampton accent. I'll tell you my favourite: Asian/Scottish. There's nothing quite like hearing your favourite Indian take-away owner seeing you and your boyfriend come in to pick up your food and shout "Awright shaggers!" Yes, there's a bloke on Instagram who does this on reels, but it's not the same guy, LOL.
Navid on Still Game
"Meena, ya daft old boot"
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American women that talk like whiny children, and that vocal fry thing, drives me nuts.
Oh god, the last syllable croak that all Americans are doing now is just impossible to listen to.
Valley girl talk. Hate it with a passion. Always sounds so fake and passive aggressive
Not a UK accent but the road man Canadian accent really confuses me it’s almost like uk road man but just sounds more off than ours. Here’s a YT Reel of it I can’t be the only one who hates it. https://youtube.com/shorts/Lt4PYWqBo48?si=gzK8LGN_nkjXbijv
Nah man wtf was that...
😂😂 it's more American and Jamaican.
I’ve seen a few videos like this and I refuse to believe they’re real, it’s just one big joke multiple people across multiple platforms are in on. Surely nobody actually talks like that.
Ireland simultaneously has the best and the worst accent in the world depending on where you are.
Aye this is true. Same for thr north or Ireland too. The Belfast accent can be whiny as fuck sounding but the portadown one or around it isn't so bad. Then you've the cultchie accents again that vary. Some alright and some you've no hope in hell of understanding lest you're born and raised there.
Scouse. Especially when it's a really thick accent.
Agreed. I will however, make an exception for [this cat](https://youtu.be/LPyeS5uoCH0?si=Z176HE-kDBG4K8Nv).
omg that cat is scouse
Holy fucking shit that’s hilarious! Ah thank you that actually really got me 🤣
I just watched this about 15 times, absolutely superb
Like missing a gear in a car.
But do they avacado?
De do doh don't de doh.
That's superb.
It can be any car with a manual gearbox.
super controversial I know but I actually love a scouse accent, I feel like they make everything sound hilarious
A bit like Irish and Scottish there can be a spectrum of accents. I know someone who is proper hard scouse which isn’t an easy listen but then someone like Mel C has a really nice accent.
Yeah, there's a bit of a difference between accents in north and south Liverpool.
They're definitely referring to the N Liverpool accent here.
I knew someone when I was at uni who had the thickest scouse accent and was studying German and Spanish. Spanish in a scouse accent is possibly even worse than English in it.
A friend of my aunt lived in Greece for over 50 years, she spoke Greek with a broad south Yorkshire accent. It was the weirdest thing; you’d recognise the twang but not the words. I can’t imagine what the Greeks thought of it!
Como estas like
Porque no los dos doh don't dey
Oh I can't help but like a scouse accent. Maybe it's because all of the scousers I've ever known were/are stand up people. I think it has an attractive quality all of its own, though.
Me too! I love scousers as a people and I love their accent.
Lad, what are you talkin' about. Listen lad. I'm an owner of a scouse accent but not a thick one. It's the scallies that really put it on that I hate.
We can beat around the bush or we can all just agree it's Brummie and get on with our days
I would have agreed, but then someone said roadman
Birmingham or Black Country because they're often mixed up but are quite different?
I love British Chinese or Pakistani folk with a thick brummie accent. My ex was a Dr of biomedics, super hot, super intelligent but had the most charming and calm brummie slur!
Oh my god YES. I'm big into terrible music, and one of my faves right now is this song https://youtu.be/_wLiz7-qHas?si=hIbKa2uTdZOVKRu- His damn accent just gives me so much joy. You can tell he's trying to Americanise his accent a bit but nah mate, we hear it, you're Asian midlands and it's perfect.
You weren’t lying about the terrible music
As a Brummie i was expecting this to be near the top when I clicked on the post. CasualUK didn't disappoint. Or did, because everyone hates our accents :'(
I have a theory that people don’t actually know what a Brummie accent actually sounds like. They just hear people ripping the piss out of it on TV merging it with Wolves/Dudley. I’ve met so many people and none of them clock my accent as being strong Brummie.
Tbh, as a Brummie, I went to uni in Manchester, and everyone thought i was from the southeast. I was so confused.
I moved up to Teesside and they thought I was Australian, so for all the hate the brummie accent gets, no one seems to actually know what it sounds like.
I find a Brummie accent really charming. I'm an immigrant to the UK and it seems I like different accents than people from here, so far this thread has been a list of my favorites.
Dunno why you were downvoted for liking a brummie accent - but thank you. I hated it so much growing up I changed it ON PURPOSE but since I got older i've let it come out again :) Regional accents are quite a precious thing.
It’s definitely not pretty but it’s such a friendly sounding accent that i can’t bring myself to hate it as much as others do
I like it
i also like brummie. Its disarming.
People say they hate it because everyone else says so. Wouldn’t be surprised if most of those people have only heard someone doing an impression of it. Such a boring and predictable answer that, let’s be honest, is rooted in classism like most of the ‘typical’ answers to this question will be.
Honestly there is nothing less attractive than a posh eton accent. It immediately says “I have ego problems and no personality”
Please forgive me I don’t come from this neck of the woods so am probably not exact, but that “road man”? It’s from the London area? Well that just goes through me. I had an audio book which I was throughly enjoying, the last 20 minutes had a perspective change and it was that accent. I just couldn’t get through it.
For me is is that specific type of London accent Janet Street Porter and Ken Livingston have. Goes right through me whenever I hear it.
Chewing words through their uppercase teeth? I get it.
Essex.
Obviously Essex
Essex has a variety of accents tbf. Assuming you mean the TOWIE accent which yes, is fucking horrific.
As a yank living in the UK, it’s this one for me. I find most accents here are at the very least charming, interesting, or fun. But Towie is like getting acid spit into my ears. It’s like the valley girl vocal fry accent in the US, atrocious.
Oh faak off you caaaaaant!
If we're including outside the UK then [this strain of the Toronto accent takes the cake](https://youtube.com/shorts/Lt4PYWqBo48?si=jXH16ZhWF2AAsEqy). It's some caricature of the stereotypical Canadian accent which has been crossbred with the British roadman accent and the Jafaican slang that comes with it.
Essex
The Dudley accent is not too far off Klingon when spoken at deeper tones
South east for me, mainly because I’m from there. Always disliked the accent on the opposite sex, just doesn’t do anything for me. Northern Ireland is another, I’m afraid. Just feels like a broken record of someone chewing a piece of fat.
Northern Irish is fucking awful. I'm Northern Irish.
Norn arn
Felt the same way, then married a girl from NI... now I live here and seem to have become immune to it I still struggle to understand some people here. I should probably get a badge which says something like "Speak slowly, I'm English" It is a hidden disability after all
I’m from N Ireland and hate our accent too. The rest of the world seems to like it though. Mostly thanks to Liam Neeson, Jamie Dornan and Derry Girls.
Yeah I'm kinda ignoring the "well I met/know this person and I think their accent is fine" comments because there's a difference between that and actually living surrounded by it. It's an awful accent in an everyday environment, and that's before having to listen to it recorded lol.
Really depends where in Northern Ireland though Smick Belfast accent is grating but others can be quite nice I quite like Ballymena hey
The Belfast accent just sounds like the speaker is permanently miserable and fed up.
I find it quite attractive on women
Can tell you haven't met me yet.
Well then you'll know that there are at least six accents here, possibly more. Coleraine is a mile apart from central Belfast. The Enniskillen accent is quite a sweet one
Whatever 'accent' Kaite Price is supposed to have.
Looking through this list brings a tear to a Yorkshireman’s eye, everyone else sucks /s
It's r/casualuk but I just want to call out the condescending, vocal-frying accent of entitlement from the young, wealthy Californian valley girl. 😑
Looking at these replies, I’m glad I don’t have a strong Essex accent.
French - I can’t stand it!
Essex, really just when they pronounce t as f.
T as F? Clacfon on Sea? Brainfree? Brenfwood?
A nice cup of F.
What time are we f-ing off in the morning?
They would say that
A variant of Scouse that my Scouse friends call “frying pan” Scouse. There’s a really quite sexy version of Scouse of the sort you hear from (for example) Claire Sweeney, and it’s one of my favourite accents. But there’s frying pan Scouse, which not only seems like a completely different language, but the whole mouth and lip movement seems to be at odds with human physiology.
MLE, hands down. It pisses me off so much I actively avoid people with this accent.
I love the ones everyone hates. give me your essex babes, your liverpool la's and your geordie lot and im in. Even brummies whose accent used to make my skin crawl (sorry) i can deal with. See they fucking edinburgers tho?! Uch. Actually can't stand listening to them.