being in Tennessee you realize that not only every region/state in the south has it's own subtle accent, but also from city to city & rural areas within each state.......a person in Memphis/Covington isn't going to sound like somebody from Johnson City/'Lizabethton.
same here in Alabama, a city dweller from Montgomery will sound NOTHING like a "country bwah" from Piedmont (my area).

my all time favorite accent is the Charleston S.C. "Southern Belle", scented with magnolia and dripping with fresh clovah honey.....

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My Irish brogue comes out sometimes when I'm around family or other Irish and I love it. I trained myself to lose it at a young age after moving to the US after being made fun of.

I hate the American southern accent though, it drives me up a #$@*&!% wall.

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I love the southern Louisiana and Cajun accents; it has a lilt and a poetry to it.
I like the NZ accent and the Scottish accent--especially when a woman has it.

I hate how people lump all southern accents together, and how (on TV and in movies especially) they think a "southern" accent is the same as a Texas accent...there's a pretty marked difference. I also hate how people degrade southern and Texas accents by attributing redneck/white trash-speak as the norm.

Even within Texas, there are several accents. I have the typical Fort Worth accent (I could make a good cowboy voice over for a commercial or movie), but I have a friend from the Hill Country (near Austin) and his accent is more urbane. My wife's Mexican+Fort Worth accent makes for an interesting combination. People in the Valley have a completely different accent (kinda Native American and Mexican inflections with a Texas twang) as well as the more genteel accents of East Texas--they sound more like Tennessee.

I don't like the accent of the Jersey Shore cast; I know some of that is played up for the show, but that whole cadence and slang bothers me.
I cannot stand the accent of ignorant white trash.

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Personally 'like a bunch of accents. In the central midwest USA, many, many people speak with the clarity and precision of talking heads on TV.

women with Australian accents

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For me:
I like Chinese accents and some British accents the best.
Peter Lorre (Hungarian?) is funny "That is thee third time you have laid hands on mee!".

I wonder if people in other countries (speaking from a USA standpoint) think our American accent sounds nice, or dumb. Somehow I don't see a man in France melting over an American girls's accent. Or a Brit swooning over a Yank's accent.

I find all accents interesting. I am learning Spanish now, and trying hard to eliminate my gringo accent. But I like when foregners to the USA speak with an accent, so maybe it would be cool to speak to native Spanish speakers with my Baltimore area , USA accent. As long as it is not making it hard to understand.

Riley, I met someone at an intersection in a quiet suburb outside of Chicago her car needed a jump so I had jumper cables and slowly worked on the cars. I had seen her before, Cheri a dancer at a club called Heavenly Bodies, wearing tattered daisy dukes and a torn wife beater on a 100 degree day and she sounded like a baby when she talked a big baby for sure I was hypnotized. So, what would that be? A different galaxy? or more east west, more regional ?

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I guess out of all the accents out there, my favorite would be the Irish accent. It just has a nice tone to it.

english like from england english not american english.

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Hi Riley: I'm guessing you're right.

I like the Kirkcudbright accent. And if you ever find out where that is don't try to pronounce that name. You will definitely get it surprisingly wrong.



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Au contraire. For example, to my ears one of the many delights of hearing Doyle Dykes talk about his incredible guitar technique is listening to his rich, thick, drenched accent. If banoffee pie could talk that is what it would sound like. And I mean that in a very good way!



Exactly. That's the key to the thing: they're all good and variety is what makes it fascinating.

Cheers - C

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I heartily agree with you my friend. Doyle Dykes has a wonderful sounding voice, , but in that sort of accent, I don't believe it would classify as thick. Thick in that genre is unintelligible.

New Orlean's patois.....followed by Cheech Marin chicano

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I like my New Zealand accent.

However, people in the UK think we're saffas. Canadians and Americans think we are australians.. Canadians whom I have met didnt even know where NZ was, and one American thought we lived in grass hutts.

When I was overseas, I noticed my accent stuck out like a sore thumb. I like the Australian accent though, I loose my kiwi accent so I can 'blend in' and not be the butt of all sheep jokes...

Besides, being the only 'Kiwi' in my family, it's rather fitting.

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totally agree that people think NZer's talk like aussies.

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Just like people think Texans sound like southerners or that all southerners sound like they're from Georgia...(each of those assumptions are wrong).

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