# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**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 5, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/61 "2004-09-05T14:23:20Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > Jealous are we? šŸ˜‰ > > Seriously though, I donā€™t think it is a cliched stereotype at all. Why can a whole load of people not find a certain accent sexy? Rewind. Read original post. Read my reply. ---
**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 5, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/62 "2004-09-05T15:07:08Z")
I had a Cockney friend that I thought had an Oedipus complex. Turns out he just didnā€™t like cats. Now Iā€™ll just and wait and ogle these old pics of the yummylicious astrophysicist in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/63 "2004-09-05T15:55:38Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > Rewind. Read original post. Read my reply. Sorry, brain not functioning - was reading posts late at night, after travelling! šŸ™‚ **NoClueBoy** , which thread would this be then? šŸ˜‰ ---
**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 5, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/64 "2004-09-05T16:17:12Z")
The threads you was wearing when you decided to change clothing during a pub crawl. I swear I got in my car to drive on over, but the toll takers for the Big Ass Atlantic Bridge wouldnā€™t take American Express. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/65 "2004-09-05T16:33:31Z")
I really like Scottish and Irish accents. Thereā€™s a chemistry professor at my university who is from Scotland, and I love it when he calls for a long-distance line. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/66 "2004-09-05T16:58:39Z")
Southern German (which includes some Austrian and Swiss); also some Eastern European (Bulgarian is very very nice.) Norf London makes me homesickā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/67 "2004-09-06T03:22:13Z")
English is nice, although that horrible ā€œWeakest Linkā€ woman nearly ruined it for me. Then I saw a U.K. woman on the Tonight Show demonstrate that she could swallow the leg of a chair, and suddenly an English accent was sexy again. And that nice lady at Scenic Bird Food with the Southern accent, mmmmm. . . . ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/68 "2004-09-06T10:16:00Z")
French does it for me. Must say Iā€™m not surprised to see Irish and Scotts there. Strangely no Welsh nominations šŸ˜› Most interesting thing for me is that noone nominates their own language. For instance, Iā€™m English. I know a lot of people like the accent (agree with the ā€œespecially spoken by a cute redheadā€) but itā€™s not unusual to me. Presume you guys are the same. Also nominate States accents especially New Yorkers (Bronx excepted). Maybe it depends on the person tho? e.g. An Irish accent can never be sexy enough to cover up the fact that the person is just plain dumb or charm lessā€¦ ---
**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 6, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/69 "2004-09-06T10:58:46Z")
> [@BadBadger](#): > > Strangely no Welsh nominations šŸ˜› I nominated the Welsh! I love that sing-songy thingā€¦but then I also nominated Scousers so I might be odd (I married a Scot though). ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/70 "2004-09-06T11:34:59Z")
Iā€™ll give it to the Welsh too. Enough like mine (Irish) so as not to be too weird and but at the same time different enough to remind me that itā€™s not. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/71 "2004-09-06T11:50:42Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > The threads you was wearing when you decided to change clothing during a pub crawl. I swear I got in my car to drive on over, but the toll takers for the Big Ass Atlantic Bridge wouldnā€™t take American Express. Aaah yes. Iā€™m just glad that pictures from my younger days, when a friend and I demonstrated that one could in fact remove oneā€™s bra in public without exposing oneself, arenā€™t floating about. šŸ™‚ ---
**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 6, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/72 "2004-09-06T12:16:10Z")
Ah but wagging school and removing uniform and replacing it with jeans and t-shirt while sitting at the back of the busā€¦with no one noticing, now that was a skill. ---
**Author:** ![Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/73 "2004-09-06T12:25:07Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Ah but wagging school and removing uniform and replacing it with jeans and t-shirt while sitting at the back of the busā€¦with no one noticing, now that was a skill. Accents, is it? British is a good one, and points go to the ladies with good Latin accents šŸ™‚ My favorite, however, has to be a well-done Souther Belle accent. The most beautiful voice I ever heard was one of those. I wasnā€™t aware that an accent could inspire a person to stare until I met her. Her laughter brought to mind windchimes. Man, I wonder what happened to herā€¦ _bamf_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792.md?page=3)