BBC Voices Poll

no1doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 22:46

A BBC Voices Poll has said that the most disliked accent in Britain is from Birmingham and The Black Country.

What do you think?

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 22:51

Birmingham & Black Country are two totally different accents.

For me its Scottish.......................cant understand a bloody word, good job no accents on this forum?

accadia


Joined: 27/06/2008
Posts: 8

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 22:52

I don't like the Scouse or Geordie accents.



A very strong Brummie accent can be annoying.



Essex accents are pretty bad too!

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 22:57

I think dialect is brilliant and shouldnt be hidden.You are who you are and should be proud of your accent.INNIT.

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 23:03

I dont like the staffordshire accent, they think they are a cut above the rest......

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 23:04

Im a yorkshireman Jock..............or is that worse than Staffordshire ??

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 23:07

You betcha...........



jock

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 23:09

See told ya, can't understand a word

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 23:16

Jings crivens and help ma boab whits wrang wi ye man..........

dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 23:35

I personally dislike Northern Ireland accent and bladdy larndan and the south east.

Understanding a Glasgow accent is totally beyond me.

No offence meant to anyone from these areas.



I love to hear the Brummy accent

pilgrim



Joined: 11/05/2007
Posts: 1404

Message Posted:
24/09/2008 23:58

Londons east end ,not keen but like many north england and mild scottish accents

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 00:02

I like all accents, although my favourite is the accent of the Western Isles

and Highlands of Scotland

dy1259


Joined: 10/08/2007
Posts: 357

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 00:24

I like them all especially the Birmingham accent. Not UK I know, but I love my parents' TC accent.

eager


Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 02:18

worst has to be northern irish, [just my opinion]

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 07:31

The worst accent of all is Brits trying to speak French... hah!



I was taught French by two people grammar by one an Oxford Languages Master of Arts and conversational French by a French woman from a suburb of Paris...



Needless to say, when speaking in France they fell about laughing because unwittingly I developed a colloquial style akin to Cockney... they loved it but being 15 years old, I was crestfallen....

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 07:36

Hearing some ex-pats speaking "Turkish" can be a real hoot...



We overheard a couple of old ladies in the Cafe De Paris saying "Tescos" to waiters so we asked them what they meant.... "I think it means thankyou" one said, she had heard someone saying tesekker and this was her approximation... we were able to them her out with a few more meaningful expressions...

ilovemydogs



Joined: 20/04/2008
Posts: 514

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 07:40

i like all accents ...but the most annoying to me was my late uncle. he was a bit of a comedien . but was irish and lived in northumberland. just imagine the accent. i couldn't understand a bloody word. i spent hours just listening to him , whilst i was growing up ,and watching everyone laugh .took me years to understand him . but boy was it worth it. lovelly man. god bless him.

Chessman


Joined: 13/05/2008
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 09:11

The part of the UK where a sentence such as... ''I don't think you have thought it through'' becomes ....''I don't fink you have fought it frough''!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 09:48

Grouch, that was funny 'tescos' can you just imagine it?



I wonder how they would have said 'merhaba' to someone? The mind boggles.

cruggs


Joined: 06/04/2008
Posts: 498

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 10:33

merhaba all,i think we need a universal translater on this forum,as i find it hard to understand some of the post,s at times.even if it is in the queen,s

english.we lived in cornwall for several years,and it took me about 6 months to understand the dialect of some of the locals.what was it rabi burns said ,

something about the gift to see us as other people see us.

jock1 could you please translate message no 9 as i seem to have lost my

scottish to english dictionary lol

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 14:57

i love having a good east london accent.

for some reason people seem, in ther ignorance to think that those with london accents are stupid.

cockney rhyming slang is great fun, and not used that often anymore. we taught both our boys it when they were small. its sad when a tradition dies out. a lost language so to speak.

Chessman


Joined: 13/05/2008
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 15:04

Firestarter.



1.Who said it was stupid?

2. Who refereed to cockney rhyming slang?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 15:47

Awight mate. I was talking to the old trouble and strife the other night about me kettle, that had stopped working. She said let me have a butchers. Well she said would you Adam & Eve it, it's stopped working.I said I know it happened when I was getting me Barnet cut. You know the place - up the Apples and Pears. Oh don't worry she said - put your plates up there and I'll order a Ruby

jimbo


Joined: 12/07/2007
Posts: 150

Message Posted:
25/09/2008 17:13

I have the worst accent, coming from Romford on the borders of Essex and East London and hearing myself on tape and film i cringe . Then again at least i can understand myself not like geordies scousers and glaswegians