Most Attractive Accent

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Is she busy? asking for a friend.

Her she is!

 

[Jeff Jones]

Voted other. Welsh.

The Aussie accent is OK here in Oz, but it grates when I hear a gang of them together abroad.

I met a couple of Geordies when I was a kid trainspotting at Chester and could hardly
understand a word they said.

 

[SerenityNigh]

@mezzrow one of many U.S. dialect sorting maps

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

 

[Kiwi]

@mezzrow one of many U.S. dialect sorting maps

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

I pronounce things most like someone from Philly, NY and Yonkers apparently

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Widnes

 

[witchdoc187]

I was in Dagenham yesterday and the Essex accent is sickening. I cant stand it. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh even thinking about it makes me keep my finger on the 'r' key.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I pronounce things most like someone from Philly, NY and Yonkers apparently

Well they everything wrong, so that probably fits

 

[degsy]

@mezzrow one of many U.S. dialect sorting maps

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

took the test. I'm scouser via NZ and Oz. thing seized up on me when it came to conclusions, CBA'd taking it again, would hazard a guess it comes out more new England than new mexico.

 

[peteblue]

I cannot believe that Italian only has 4 votes........

 

[wm02]

Staten Island

 

[SerenityNigh]

took the test. I'm scouser via NZ and Oz. thing seized up on me when it came to conclusions, CBA'd taking it again, would hazard a guess it comes out more new England than new mexico.

I think you're right, most non-Americans probably come up as Northeast dialect

 

[Efcjake]

Irish girls... Could listen to them nag me all day.

 

[quasi modo]

Irish, not northern though.

 

[mezzrow]

@mezzrow one of many U.S. dialect sorting maps

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

I've taken the test - I get located somewhere between Birmingham (not that one) and Atlanta, with some midwest processed in for use outside family to aid intelligibility. That's where my Mom was born and grew up, and guess who taught me to talk. Case closed.

Like I've said before, in public, I sound exactly like Clark Howard. Exactly - it's kinda creepy, even though Clark seems like a great guy.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I've taken the test - I get located somewhere between Birmingham (not that one) and Atlanta, with some midwest processed in for use outside family to aid intelligibility. That's where my Mom was born and grew up, and guess who taught me to talk. Case closed.

Like I've said before, in public, I sound exactly like Clark Howard. Exactly - it's kinda creepy, even though Clark seems like a great guy.

I don't know him. Does he sound like Clark Griswold?