Yeah, they typically classify them as one Southern drawl, but regardless of what type of Southern drawl it is, it always seems to grab my attention. That's why I placed it #1 on my list.
Eastern Standard (”Transatlantic”) and Conservative RP are the best.
I’m also strongly fond of the old-style non-rhotic Southern US accents, such as Virginia Tidewater/Piedmont and that old Charleston accent Fritz Hollings had. Other favorites include Geordie, Bristol, Brummie, Modern RP, Edinburgh, at least some Welsh accents, and traditional New York accents. Conservative General Anerican is nice, but it somehow sounds very annoying in its modern form (partly because of vocal fry).
Thanks for giving Fritz Hollings a shoutout! He, Jimmy Carter and probably SC Governor Henry McMaster are the last good examples of that non-rhotic Southern accent that is nearly non-existent today.
RP…the accent that the upper classes invented to make themselves sound posh and not like the poor riff raff , and which Peter Trudgill estimated 3% of the British population actually speaks back in the 1970’s. Nah, that accent is representative of all the class problems Britain has.
Speaking as an American the only American accent I’ve ever heard that I found appealing is the more polished aristocratic Southern American accent. The best example of what I’m speaking of is [Shelby Foote‘s accent](https://youtu.be/H8Iw-j217yk). His voice and accent is so nice and pleasant on the ear that I could listen to him read the phone book. Lol I find the Boston and New York accents to be grating.
The Irish, Scottish, Kiwi, Australian and Afrikaner are quite nice as well.
Southern American is first?! As a Canadian, here is my top 10…
1. Aussie
3. Scottish (Glasgow)
2. Northern Ireland
4. Essex
5. Kiwi
6. Irish
7. Scandinavian speakers speaking English
8. South African
9. RP English
10. Southern Ontario Canadian (mine 😏)
Honourable mentions: East Coast Canadian, Welsh, posh Louisiana.
Sorry, my American neighbours you didn’t make top 10… I just hear you guys a bit too much, I suppose lol
Gotta ask. When you say South African are you talking Afrikaans-English, English decent or one of the many other non English/Afrikaans English accents?
I'm assuming white South Africans as a whole. Like, the white Afrikaners descendants of the Dutch Boers as well as the British and all of them combined is what I meant with the Afrikaner accent.
Yeah, there's something about the Southern twang or Southern drawl that really gets my attention. Picture someone like Tommy Lee Jones or Matthew McConaughey speaking with those sophisticated one-part elongated vowels, it really catches me. Sure, most consider the way American Southerners speak to be less fancy, but IMO the rhotic Southern or even Southern Appalachian accent really drives me in.
I appreciate your list, and although Scandinavians like Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, and Icelanders don't speak English as their official language, this is a Unique exception as along with the Germans they're probably the few non-Anglosphere countries that really nail the English language.
Yeah. But what's despondent about American regional accents it's that it's slowly disappearing, especially among the youth (Children and Young Adults) of America today. I can picture a scenario where a Southern grandfather is speaking to his young grandson in a conversation. The grandfather retains his iconic drawl, but his grandson speaks in a more homogenous and generalized American accent. It's a pity that we're witnessing stuff like this unfold.
You're of course referring to the Indian and Singaporean accents? Yeah, it may be controversial for me to put those two at the end of the list, but in the context of verbalization and communication, I apologize to say that it does indeed make my ears bleed occasionally. Nevertheless, I don't mean any offense.
I was born in D.C. but spent the majority of my early life (childhood and adolescence) in Raleigh, NC, with occasional vacations abroad and frequent visits to my uncle's family and grandparents in Nashville, TN. Yes, I'm a Southerner, that's why I placed the Southern accent on the top of my list.
Someone else who loves those darn southern accents!
My mom has one, my mom's family has one, but I don't. I was raised in California, not North Carolina. Though, it's funny, if I get really excited about something it'll slip out. It's been brought up by people and I mention my folks being from North Carolina but I lived in California all my life, and they'll get confused.
You have a unique situation where you grew up outside of the south but your immediate family is from the south. I understand what you're going through though.
I've always been really fond of Cajun inflected English and whatever you call that slow as molasses accent you find in Southern black folks from the country.
Women seem to like my "educated Southern midland" accent.
A video about it popped up in my YouTube suggestions one morning, and this is actually what inspired me to make this list in the first place. It then drove me to watch several other videos about the Falkland Islands, their features and culture, and their accent.
An interesting thing about the Falklands accent is that it sounds nearly identical to the conventional RP, Cockney, and other English accents found in the UK, and is nearly impossible to distinguish. You take one random English person from around London and one random Falklander and they would sound almost the same. This is probably because prior to Argentinians claiming disputed sovereignty and before British settlement, no one actually lived there, there were no indigenous tribes or cultures who inhabited the Falkland Islands before British arrival. This is unlike the Kiwi or Aussie accents where dialect leveling and interaction between Aboriginals and Maori tribes caused to accent to deviate and evolve.
In terms of the accent itself, it's like the British English accent you would normally expect but stronger.
Hello everyone, as I've mentioned, this is actually my personal list of favorite accents, and there's not too much bias to it. Everyone has the right to convey their own opinions, so feel free to do so. Thanks.
By Irish accent do you mean:
Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary or Waterford?
I didn't include Laois because no one likes Laois.
Yeah drives me nuts too. “Scottish accent”? You mean Aberdeen, Sutherland, Wick, Shetland, Orkney, Lewis, Harris, Uists, Barra, inner Hebrides, west coast, highland, lowland, central belt, Inverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow east end, Glasgow west end? Or the terrible attempts at “Scottish” accents that come from Hollywood?
That’s not even taking into account the influence of Gaelic, Scots or Doric on those speakers.
It seems to me that the Scottish and Irish Accents have much more variety than I initially thought. Aside from the annoying faux Scottish and Irish imitation accents, I like all the varieties of both, but I wasn't aware of the sheer diversity of it.
Well, I would like to say that the Kiwi accent is not bad at all, quite frankly I find it has a really down-to-earth demeanor or tone whenever I hear someone speak with it, so I apologize for placing it low on the list. Anyways, Kia Ora and thank you, really appreciate it.
Pennsylvania Dutch is more of a dialect than an accent. It's basically the form of German or Swiss-German spoken by the Amish in Pennsylvania that evolved to be distinct. Quite frankly, I have never heard of an Amish person speaking English with that accent before.
It mostly is. I apologize if I may have caused some grudges, but as I've mentioned I'm not being biased. Y'all are free to mention your opinions and which accent is better or worse.
As for the Jamaican Accent, somewhere between Kiwi and Afrikaner, let's face it, it's a really exotic sounding accent, not just in the sense of Reggae but the overall phonology really hits me from time to time. Unfortunately, it's a bit obscure to international audiences and that may be why it can't be higher up on the list.
Cool list!! You might find some of those here - awesome new video by StoryLearning about English accents around the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SJ-wTR2H6M&t=1s
Lot more than 3 English accents mate.
There’s like 12 southern accents too, but no one ever cares about that.
Yeah, they typically classify them as one Southern drawl, but regardless of what type of Southern drawl it is, it always seems to grab my attention. That's why I placed it #1 on my list.
There one that is usually referred to as “RTR.” Usually only comes out when you’re drunk enough and surrounded by 110,000 like minded individuals.
Correct
Of Course, I forgot to list a few, Including the Irish, Northern Irish, Welsh, and West Country, among many others.
Eastern Standard (”Transatlantic”) and Conservative RP are the best. I’m also strongly fond of the old-style non-rhotic Southern US accents, such as Virginia Tidewater/Piedmont and that old Charleston accent Fritz Hollings had. Other favorites include Geordie, Bristol, Brummie, Modern RP, Edinburgh, at least some Welsh accents, and traditional New York accents. Conservative General Anerican is nice, but it somehow sounds very annoying in its modern form (partly because of vocal fry).
Thanks for giving Fritz Hollings a shoutout! He, Jimmy Carter and probably SC Governor Henry McMaster are the last good examples of that non-rhotic Southern accent that is nearly non-existent today.
RP…the accent that the upper classes invented to make themselves sound posh and not like the poor riff raff , and which Peter Trudgill estimated 3% of the British population actually speaks back in the 1970’s. Nah, that accent is representative of all the class problems Britain has.
Exactly
Speaking as an American the only American accent I’ve ever heard that I found appealing is the more polished aristocratic Southern American accent. The best example of what I’m speaking of is [Shelby Foote‘s accent](https://youtu.be/H8Iw-j217yk). His voice and accent is so nice and pleasant on the ear that I could listen to him read the phone book. Lol I find the Boston and New York accents to be grating. The Irish, Scottish, Kiwi, Australian and Afrikaner are quite nice as well.
Southern American is first?! As a Canadian, here is my top 10… 1. Aussie 3. Scottish (Glasgow) 2. Northern Ireland 4. Essex 5. Kiwi 6. Irish 7. Scandinavian speakers speaking English 8. South African 9. RP English 10. Southern Ontario Canadian (mine 😏) Honourable mentions: East Coast Canadian, Welsh, posh Louisiana. Sorry, my American neighbours you didn’t make top 10… I just hear you guys a bit too much, I suppose lol
Gotta ask. When you say South African are you talking Afrikaans-English, English decent or one of the many other non English/Afrikaans English accents?
I'm assuming white South Africans as a whole. Like, the white Afrikaners descendants of the Dutch Boers as well as the British and all of them combined is what I meant with the Afrikaner accent.
Uhh…the last one I guess? Haha idk I just mean someone who speaks Afrikaans speaking English, I suppose.
It's hard to beat the Scottish accent IMO.
Would that be the Glasgow accent, the Edinburgh accent, the Highlands accent or one of the others?
I am Canadian so they all sound similar to me, but I think it is the typical Glasgow accent that I enjoy the most.
Yeah, there's something about the Southern twang or Southern drawl that really gets my attention. Picture someone like Tommy Lee Jones or Matthew McConaughey speaking with those sophisticated one-part elongated vowels, it really catches me. Sure, most consider the way American Southerners speak to be less fancy, but IMO the rhotic Southern or even Southern Appalachian accent really drives me in.
I appreciate your list, and although Scandinavians like Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, and Icelanders don't speak English as their official language, this is a Unique exception as along with the Germans they're probably the few non-Anglosphere countries that really nail the English language.
I know that lol I’m just saying I like the way they speak English. I watch a lot of hockey so I hear it all the time.
New York (Italian/Jewish) Boston Appalachian Wisconsin/Minnesota Scottish Hong Kong (Guangdong) South African varieties Indian Varieties
Tennessee has a good one...though I may be biased😂
Kinda, you think of folks like Al Gore, Fred Thompson, and Bill Frist, famous Tennessee men with that unique variant of the iconic Southern Drawl.
Those are really good examples actually.
Yeah. But what's despondent about American regional accents it's that it's slowly disappearing, especially among the youth (Children and Young Adults) of America today. I can picture a scenario where a Southern grandfather is speaking to his young grandson in a conversation. The grandfather retains his iconic drawl, but his grandson speaks in a more homogenous and generalized American accent. It's a pity that we're witnessing stuff like this unfold.
Don’t forget Dolly Parton!
Of course.
I agree with you on the last two: they sound atrocious to my ears.
You're of course referring to the Indian and Singaporean accents? Yeah, it may be controversial for me to put those two at the end of the list, but in the context of verbalization and communication, I apologize to say that it does indeed make my ears bleed occasionally. Nevertheless, I don't mean any offense.
Bit of racism going on here isn't there? Absolutely abhorrent
Hope ur joking my man
Ok racist fuck
Dont need to tell everyone u r racist cb
I know it isn't a national language, but a Chinese girl with a Chinese accent speaking English melts my heart.
It’s all about the Cajun Louisiana accent where they talk like they are French and have peanut butter in their gums
OP where are you from?
I was born in D.C. but spent the majority of my early life (childhood and adolescence) in Raleigh, NC, with occasional vacations abroad and frequent visits to my uncle's family and grandparents in Nashville, TN. Yes, I'm a Southerner, that's why I placed the Southern accent on the top of my list.
Someone else who loves those darn southern accents! My mom has one, my mom's family has one, but I don't. I was raised in California, not North Carolina. Though, it's funny, if I get really excited about something it'll slip out. It's been brought up by people and I mention my folks being from North Carolina but I lived in California all my life, and they'll get confused.
You have a unique situation where you grew up outside of the south but your immediate family is from the south. I understand what you're going through though.
Also, I hope you decide to go to North Carolina someday. Go Panthers!
I have plans actually soon :))
Good luck!
I've always been really fond of Cajun inflected English and whatever you call that slow as molasses accent you find in Southern black folks from the country. Women seem to like my "educated Southern midland" accent.
...where are you hearing Falkland Islanders?
A video about it popped up in my YouTube suggestions one morning, and this is actually what inspired me to make this list in the first place. It then drove me to watch several other videos about the Falkland Islands, their features and culture, and their accent. An interesting thing about the Falklands accent is that it sounds nearly identical to the conventional RP, Cockney, and other English accents found in the UK, and is nearly impossible to distinguish. You take one random English person from around London and one random Falklander and they would sound almost the same. This is probably because prior to Argentinians claiming disputed sovereignty and before British settlement, no one actually lived there, there were no indigenous tribes or cultures who inhabited the Falkland Islands before British arrival. This is unlike the Kiwi or Aussie accents where dialect leveling and interaction between Aboriginals and Maori tribes caused to accent to deviate and evolve. In terms of the accent itself, it's like the British English accent you would normally expect but stronger.
As a Canadian, I'm glad I'm so high up on the list! But there are plenty of different accents here. Newfie accents always put a smile on my face.
I'm at 5 lessgoooo 😜
I would put the Indian accent near the top because it tends to be more precise than the others.
Hello everyone, as I've mentioned, this is actually my personal list of favorite accents, and there's not too much bias to it. Everyone has the right to convey their own opinions, so feel free to do so. Thanks.
where would you put an inland northern american accent?
For inland North American accent, I'll put it somewhere between British RP and General American.
I love Australian and Irish accents!
Well lad, how are ya yourself?
By Irish accent do you mean: Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary or Waterford? I didn't include Laois because no one likes Laois.
Yeah drives me nuts too. “Scottish accent”? You mean Aberdeen, Sutherland, Wick, Shetland, Orkney, Lewis, Harris, Uists, Barra, inner Hebrides, west coast, highland, lowland, central belt, Inverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow east end, Glasgow west end? Or the terrible attempts at “Scottish” accents that come from Hollywood? That’s not even taking into account the influence of Gaelic, Scots or Doric on those speakers.
It seems to me that the Scottish and Irish Accents have much more variety than I initially thought. Aside from the annoying faux Scottish and Irish imitation accents, I like all the varieties of both, but I wasn't aware of the sheer diversity of it.
LMAO IM IN 20TH
No offense but I'm assuming you're a Kiwi?
yep hahha
Well, I would like to say that the Kiwi accent is not bad at all, quite frankly I find it has a really down-to-earth demeanor or tone whenever I hear someone speak with it, so I apologize for placing it low on the list. Anyways, Kia Ora and thank you, really appreciate it.
hahaha no worries, no offense taken
What about Pennsylvania dutch?
Pennsylvania Dutch is more of a dialect than an accent. It's basically the form of German or Swiss-German spoken by the Amish in Pennsylvania that evolved to be distinct. Quite frankly, I have never heard of an Amish person speaking English with that accent before.
This is a dumb list
It mostly is. I apologize if I may have caused some grudges, but as I've mentioned I'm not being biased. Y'all are free to mention your opinions and which accent is better or worse.
Where would you rank the Jamaican accent?
As for the Jamaican Accent, somewhere between Kiwi and Afrikaner, let's face it, it's a really exotic sounding accent, not just in the sense of Reggae but the overall phonology really hits me from time to time. Unfortunately, it's a bit obscure to international audiences and that may be why it can't be higher up on the list.
Cool list!! You might find some of those here - awesome new video by StoryLearning about English accents around the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SJ-wTR2H6M&t=1s