# Are American accents sexy to non-Americans?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-american-accents-sexy-to-non-americans/373761>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 22, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-american-accents-sexy-to-non-americans/373761 "2006-09-22T19:19:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-american-accents-sexy-to-non-americans/373761/61 "2016-06-03T21:17:01Z")

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As a Brit female, I have to say that I find American accents very UNsexy, quite a turn off in fact.

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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-american-accents-sexy-to-non-americans/373761/62 "2016-06-04T01:48:46Z")

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> [@MrLee](#):
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> The same goes for the states-in-the-middle (Kentucky, Missouri, etc… - do you have a generic name for them?)

“Midwestern”. Region name “the Midwest”.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-american-accents-sexy-to-non-americans/373761/63 "2016-06-04T10:16:44Z")

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I’m English and don’t find any American accent sexy.

(However there are a lot of good-looking American women!)

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-american-accents-sexy-to-non-americans/373761/64 "2016-06-04T11:49:26Z")

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> [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](#):
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> I find some of them quite sexy, but not the Californian accent (sounds too airheaded) or the New York Brooklyn accent (sounds like they are constipated).

Only a tiny fraction of the folks living in CA have the kind of “Valley Girl” accent that I assume you are talking about. What-EV-errr!

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**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-american-accents-sexy-to-non-americans/373761/65 "2016-06-04T18:26:53Z")

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> [@MrLee](#):
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> The same goes for the states-in-the-middle (Kentucky, Missouri, etc… - do you have a generic name for them?)

> [@Kimstu](#):
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> “Midwestern”. Region name “the Midwest”.

It is fairly rare for people to consider Kentucky and Missouri in the Midwest. You can sometimes go west of the Mississippi and still be in the Midwest, but you can’t really cross the Ohio.

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