# Are english accents sexy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 29, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142 "2007-11-29T04:09:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/41 "2007-11-29T19:41:51Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] I propose to amend this thread to “How sexy are Irish accents?” [/QUOTE] They’re magically delicious. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/42 "2007-11-29T20:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] All British accents are sexy. [/QUOTE] Ooooh, I think that’s the first time anyone’s ever told me a Suffolk accent is sexy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/43 "2007-11-29T20:14:10Z")
English accents: Sexy Irish accents: Sexier Scottish accents: Sexiest ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/44 "2007-11-29T20:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Scottish accents: Sexiest [/QUOTE] Even if you can’t understand them? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GCghRuXs80](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GCghRuXs80) ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/45 "2007-11-29T20:31:48Z")
I have these friends. . .the wife is English, educated in Scotland; the husband is Iranian, likewise educated in Scotland. Their sons are both married, but both have these _incredible_ mixed accents that would make me do either one of them, anywhere, anytime! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/46 "2007-11-29T20:54:23Z")
Oh,hell yes. British, Scottish, Irish. They’re all hot. Give me a lovely Fiona or Brigid and my toes curl up into my heels. ---
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/47 "2007-11-29T21:19:53Z")
Yes. edited to add: **MOST** accents are sexy. Ironically I am from the South and I find a heavy Southern drawl quite irritating. ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/48 "2007-11-29T21:36:25Z")
[QUOTE=PaulParkhead] My German colleagues meant cute in the sense that teddy bears and cats are cute, rather than cute as in “sexy”. At least, I think that’s what they meant. [/QUOTE] Yes, exactly. In my experience this is often the case with British people, not so much with Americans. The most adorable thing ever is Stephen Fry speaking German. You just want to cuddle him and pinch his cheek. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/49 "2007-11-29T21:56:15Z")
I find English and Irish accents sexy. Although I have enough Brit friends now that the novelty is wearing off a little. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/50 "2007-11-29T22:00:27Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Even if you can’t understand them? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GCghRuXs80](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GCghRuXs80) [/QUOTE] Oh, yeah. It’s not what you say, baby, it’s how you say it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/51 "2007-11-29T22:00:32Z")
I find it really, really amusing that the thread has become what the title implies it to mean. However, I am also curious: Non-native English-speaking Dopers: How do you find an american accent when someone is speaking your native language? British accent? Canadian accent? Australian accent? Repeat for any other native English speakers I may have forgotten. Gestalt ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/52 "2007-11-29T22:07:45Z")
[QUOTE=Brynda] Brynda, married to a Yorkshireman who gets comments every day here in the US about his sexy accent [/QUOTE] I went to YouTube and searched out a bunch of videos involving Yorkshire accents. Mysteriously, I seem to have misplaced my pants. I can never, _never_ visit the UK. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/53 "2007-11-29T22:15:11Z")
[QUOTE=NajaNivea] I went to YouTube and searched out a bunch of videos involving Yorkshire accents. Mysteriously, I seem to have misplaced my pants. I can never, _never_ visit the UK. [/QUOTE] [Aye.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo) ---
**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/54 "2007-11-29T23:06:44Z")
If it’s [Jane Birkin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHiMDB19Dyc) (caution: music), I melt every time. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/55 "2007-11-29T23:48:42Z")
I’m told my accent is sexy, but I was born in England, raised in the US, and have no idea what my accent is these days, other than it gets stronger as I get angrier. Back when I spoke Japanese fluently, I was told I spoke it with a Kobe accent, which makes sense, since I studied in Kobe for a year. There was also one notable occaision when I spoke Japanese with my best imitation of an Australian accent. Yes, I was sober at the time and there was a reason for it; I’ve just forgotten the reason. I think the Japanese people listening were amused. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/56 "2007-11-30T00:13:35Z")
I don’t find English accents sexy per se. If a guy I think is hot already has one, okay, it goes with the package. But I don’t really like any regional/“foreign” accents. I prefer a flat American “non-accent-broadcaster-style accent” (that is, to me, no discernable accent). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/57 "2007-11-30T23:56:18Z")
I’m assuming you people are all speaking about MEN with English/Irish/Scottish accents. 'Cause I can sorta see that. Women, not so much. Unless they happen to be saying “Aowwww, sor, I’m desairving a right jolly good bare-bottom spankin.”’ (which they often are, according to my magazines.) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/58 "2007-12-01T01:27:05Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Yeah, \*very \*very. Even more so than British. But I think you should go post to that dialect thread so we can tell you for sure. 😉 [/QUOTE] What dialect thread? ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/59 "2007-12-01T01:40:22Z")
OK, EVERYONE The thread about how english-speakers sound when speaking other languages is here: > **[Do foreigners think americans sound sexy speaking their language?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=446144)** > > Ok, this is the thread that “Are english accents sexy?” supposed to have been… but with a way longer title. Basically, when a French guy or a Spanish guy comes to America and learns English, chances are girls are gonna think his accent is hot. When... ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142/60 "2007-12-01T20:03:09Z")
[QUOTE=Ukulele Ike] I’m assuming you people are all speaking about MEN with English/Irish/Scottish accents. 'Cause I can sorta see that. Women, not so much. Unless they happen to be saying “Aowwww, sor, I’m desairving a right jolly good bare-bottom spankin.”’ (which they often are, according to my magazines.) [/QUOTE] Or, “naughty Zoot! You must punish her! And then me too!” or words to that effect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-english-accents-sexy/428142.md?page=4)