The Best or worst British accents

Nahh then lads n lasses ehh.
This is something that annoys the hell out of me to be honest lol.
Which do we think is the best or worst, or the easiest or hardest. Or even the most awful and annoying Brittish accent.

 

I have struggled with Glaswegians & Geordies when met on nights out, but the strangest accent is Matt Armstrongs from YouTube. Not sure where he’s from - maybe Leicester?

 

He’s from Leicester.

 

Top 5 worst British accents:

1) Scouse
2) Liverpool
3) Merseyside
4) The Wirral
5) Mickey Mousers

 

Best, Yorkshire & Geordie.

Worst, Welsh, Brummie and Eton / Estuary.

 

Most annoying by a country mile.

 

Estuary English.
That Tommy wotsisname on the house programme, used to be with Charlie Dimmock.
He has lost the ability to say the letter t in words.
It just becomes a London drawl.
So glad we speak proper English up here.

 

Worst, everything in an around Scouse land,

Best ought arta Yorkshire,

 

When I first moved to Liverpool I struggled to understand what some of them were saying.

 

Owt.

 

Round where I live in South Derbyshire they speak with a sort of watered down version of Yorkshire, "Nah then mi owd?" being a common greeting along with "Ayup mi duck".

 

Worst 1. Essex/ cockney 2. Posh Sloaney ok yar ers 3. Scouse
Best 1 Yorkshire 2 Dorset 3 Geordie

 

I'll stand corrected. I think it was Jeffrey Holland of Hi di Hi fame. Who once did a comedy weather sketch on accents. Starting at the top of the British Isles
And gradually working his way down the map. Very funny and doing the subtle changes on the way.
The slight change from Barnsley to Sheffield an example. (Even though there are many slight changes and different words in the barnsley area itself)

Once heard or read this.
Barnsley
"Nar then thee, ar tha gooin on"

North Sheffield
"Nar then thee, ar da gooin on"

Sheffield/Sheffield South
"Nar den dee, are da gooin on"
Having worked wi Sheffielders for 30+ yrs. Its spot on.

Hardest accent I ever came across was West Scotland. Having worked with East and West.
Closely followed by south brum.

Hotel in Bournemouth sat at bar with a Scot. From the west side not sure exactly where. Trying to have a conversation toning my accent down a little.
Me
"Sorry mate, I'm struggling with your accent a bit"

And from what I understood was the reply.
"A nae change mi accent fo nae fekker"

End of conversation lol.

Love the Irish (ladies in particular) accent.

 

Chesterfield, maybe Derbyshire in general seem to speak on 0.5x speed. Anyone else noticed this?

 

The oddest accent belongs to Vicki Sparks, to the extent that it distracts from the games she's commentating on, for me. It sounds totally artificial, as if she's been trying to develop it specifically. I have no idea where it relates to, but is presumably a hybrid of various accents accumulated over time.

As for regional ones, the West Midlands one is the worst. Southern Irish accents are the best, albeit technically not British, and it always amazes me how an island that small can produce two dialects that are so diametrically opposed. The Belfast accent is one of the harsher ones to hear.

 

I've mentioned it before on the BBS, but it still makes me laugh that the bloke who sits next to me at Oakwell could naturally rhyme 'McGeehan' with 'again', which is something that I suspect is unique to the Barnsley accent.

 

Try featherstone, slow as fekk. And I worked with a few from chessie. "Nar then mi duck,"

Fev.
"Nice toooo seeeee theeeee Paaaul"
And wondered what the fekk. When asked once,
"Es thaaa not finnnned it yit"

 

Worse:

1) That Weird gangsta jabber some people use - innit brah?
2) Brummie
3) Essex/East London
4) Cumbria

 

I worked in Chesterfield (Barlborough) for a good few years .......... the number of times women in the office would come out with
"you should see the state of my ar5e" or
"my ar5e needs cleaning from top to bottom"
"my ar5e looks like a bombs hit it"

and the one that always got me:
"I had a lot of people come round my ar5e at the weekend"

They just can't pronounce HOUSE proper like wot we do.