Absolute Best Accent

Err, license, that is…

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! :wink:


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.

  1. New Zealand
  2. Afrikaans

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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