# Accents you find sexy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792 "2004-09-02T16:45:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/41 "2004-09-03T05:17:03Z")
Yours. You smell nice, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sinshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sinshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinshine)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/42 "2004-09-03T05:45:46Z")
I am dismayed to realize that I am more or less immune to accents. They neither enhance nor diminish a man’s overall impact on me. However, a deep male voice, with or without an accent, will make my knees wobble. Vin Diesel could recite the alphabet to me incorrectly, and I would think he is the most brilliant wordsmith I’d ever met. I deal with a variety of people over the phone, and there is one guy whom I just love to talk to. He has a subtle accent I have yet to place, but a deep and scratchy voice that I find hopelessly distracting. Whenever he calls, I completely lose track of what he is saying because that voice is just marvellous. He has figured out that he must make some small talk with me if he wants to get intelligent results, because I need to “get my fix” before I can get to business. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/43 "2004-09-03T06:27:08Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > Well a Scottish accent **is** best. 😃 > > But are we talking Northern, Southern, East or West? FFS, FG, I’m in Scotland practically every other weekend and _I_ can’t tell the difference. Scottish accents to me are: Glasgow, and not-Glasgow 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/44 "2004-09-03T06:31:21Z")
In honor of a former girlfriend who spoke no English, I vote for a Japanese accent in French. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/45 "2004-09-03T06:33:42Z")
South African. Hoooooooo, baby. Not quite British, not quite Australian, but dayamn… I know one woman from South Africa, and I could have sat there for hours listening to her read from the phone book. ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/46 "2004-09-03T06:37:00Z")
Add my name to the list who like British accents, particularly Scottish. Shirley Manson from the band Garbage just exudes sex, and her thick Scottish brogue just tops it all off. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/47 "2004-09-03T06:44:57Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > So as not to hijack [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=522874) thread, which accents make you go weak at the knees? Make you want to spontaneously orgasm? Which accents do you find just so incredibly sexy? > > For me, its mainly the “Celtic” accents - Scottish and Irish. The Irish accent just has a certain something about it, but the Scottish accent just makes me go totally weak at the knees, its just so damned sexy darnit! 😉 > > So, come on, spill, what are the most sexiest accents (IYHO) on the face of this planet? Oi!! Scots bois!! ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/48 "2004-09-03T06:52:18Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Oi!! > > Scots bois!! I used to work at FWW’s(Woolworth’s) and a cute pair of Scots on manoeuvres came in and asked me were the diuretics and rubber slippers were. Their accents were so thick and adorable and their cheeks so ruddy that it took me several minutes to understand that they meant condoms. 😃 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/49 "2004-09-03T07:24:48Z")
> [@moonbunny](#): > > maybe I’m alone here, but nothing makes me melt faster than a man with a smooth tenor/baritone voice and a Southern accent. I’ll call my friend Clay up (he’s from Atlanta) and let him ramble on at me for hours, just to listen to that accent. Man, it makes me shiver, especially when he’s a little on the drunk/stoned side and the accent’s even MORE pronounced… 😃 I even like the stronger Southern accents, like the Alabama one. Another friend of mine has a GREAT Alabama drawl that I could just listen to for hours. So… how _y’all_ doin’? Actually, I’m screwed, because southern female accents are hella sexy, but southern male accents don’t do anything for me at all. Mine does come back when I’ve been drinking, though… ---
**Author:** ![DWToml815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DWToml815](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWToml815)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/50 "2004-09-03T10:20:00Z")
My wife has a thing for my boss’s accent. Think Italian, but raised in Germany. Not the nasal Bavarian accent, but the hard stressed German. After about 7 years I’ve even learned to fake it pretty well… ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/51 "2004-09-03T10:25:55Z")
I love Scouser. They sound like bad boys who are constantly taking the piss. I do like a good sing songy Welsh accent too. Aussies? Can live without that accent 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/52 "2004-09-03T11:09:09Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > Well a Scottish accent **is** best. 😃 > > But are we talking Northern, Southern, East or West? We’re talking north-western. Yum. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![noname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/53 "2004-09-03T12:15:04Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > An English accent will melt my knees every\_single\_time. Not just any English accent, none of this Lond hackney crap, but a proper, smooth-tongued English gentleman. > > Noname: I can do this. 😃 How you doin? > > Kya, yaar! You can speak in Arabised American?? Cool!! 😃 _Jhakaas!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/54 "2004-09-03T12:55:57Z")
I like my husband’s accent: Not full-on Scottish, not full-on English. His home town is right on the Scottish/English border. As I type this, he’s standing here saying that his accent is unique to only him. He’s said that since he was in the army and did quite a bit of travelling, his way of speaking is different from people in his own home town. True, too-- his children sound completely different. I’m pretty sure that I would have had a hard time getting to know him if he were a Glaswegian. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/55 "2004-09-03T15:00:58Z")
> [@dwalin](#): > > A-bloody-men. I haven’t spoken like that in months, but it’s very nice when I do around _some_ girls… Let’s just say that it’s well-liked in some circles. > > (And by the way, I think you mean ‘Cockney’, which I also abhor, not ‘hackney’) Can I call you up just to hear it? Seriously, thank you for the correction. I hate it so much that I can’t even get the name of it correct. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/56 "2004-09-03T15:09:03Z")
> [@noname](#): > > You can speak in Arabised American?? Cool!! 😃 > > _Jhakaas!!!_ Noname, I am truly bilingual and speak either language (Hindi and English) equally fluently. Depending on my mood and where I am, I’ll swear in either language and think in either language. My parents did this for me, which I’m grateful for: English was for outside, Hindi was for the house. > [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Accents you find sexy > > Yours. > > You smell nice, too. We’re flattered, NoClueBoy. You’ve got nice eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/57 "2004-09-03T15:12:43Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > We’re flattered, NoClueBoy. You’ve got nice eyes. He’s got a nice arse as well. Not as nice as a certain Scotsman, but a nice arse nonetheless. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/58 "2004-09-03T16:39:54Z")
A girl with a soft Aberdeen accent spoke to me once and I’ve been in love with the accent ever since! Can’t stand the Glasgow accent though, so it’s not all Scottish accents I like. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/59 "2004-09-03T20:08:12Z")
> [@Seeker74](#): > > I’m pretty sure that I would have had a hard time getting to know him if he were a Glaswegian. Can we quit with this cliched stereo-type now please? You can’t swing a cat in Glasgow without hitting a call centre. Why? Because surveys say that people the world over find the Glaswegian accent pleasant, clear, trustworthy and, yes, sexy. (And other things, like workforce costs, infrastructure, etc) Course, they’re all moving to India these days and everyone still prefers the Irish… ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/60 "2004-09-03T21:40:23Z")
[QUOTE=Futile Gesture] Can we quit with this cliched stereo-type now please? You can’t swing a cat in Glasgow without hitting a call centre. Why? Because surveys say that people the world over find the Glaswegian accent pleasant, clear, trustworthy and, yes, sexy. (And other things, like workforce costs, infrastructure, etc) [QUOTE] Jealous are we? 😉 Seriously though, I don’t think it is a cliched stereotype at all. Why can a whole load of people not find a certain accent sexy? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792.md?page=4)