# Absolute Best Accent

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 2, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-best-accent/14606 "2000-03-02T23:41:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-best-accent/14606/61 "2000-03-06T15:17:00Z")

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Err, license, that is…

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**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-best-accent/14606/62 "2000-03-07T07:36:00Z")

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Actually, my accent isn’t that bad. I was born in NC and moved to TN at age 8 but my mom is British and that offset much of the accent. But you can still bite me! 😉

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I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it.

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**Author:** ![asphodel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@asphodel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asphodel)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-best-accent/14606/63 "2000-03-07T21:34:00Z")

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1. New Zealand
2. Afrikaans

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-best-accent/14606/64 "2000-03-11T23:38:00Z")

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I like a soft, gentle, soothing southern (US) accent in a woman. That or a harsher NY/Long Island one (like Leah Remini, say).

hmmmm… Yeah, if you’re gonna yell at me, yell in Brooklynese. Or just yell in Italian.

Of Brits, a Lancashire accent is ok–I’ve met several people from Lancs, and once I got used to it, I liked it. Seems to work well both when soft and when snippy.

Maybe Sicilian? while speaking Italian, anyway?

Yeah, I’m from SW Missouri, and I don’t know how to explain the “hick” twang from around here. I’m from town, and of somewhat more Yankee (northern) heritage, so I don’t use it so much. I’m as comfortable hearing Received English as the local twang, and I guess I normally speak a slightly Southernized Midwestern. So I found it funny when a woman thought I wasn’t from this part of the country–where I’ve lived most of my life. Then there was the time I heard someone claim not to have understood “a word” form a debater–who was from Buckinghamshire, educated at Oxford, and spoke with that utterly precise Oxford/Received English accent. Grief! Probably the most clear and intelligible accent in English–the standard of English, and she “didn’t understand a word.”  
ohwell…

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I’m a member of the _Monarchist_ political party.

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