# Doperettes not in U.S.: Do hott American acccents turn you on? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289 "2004-12-06T01:25:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/21 "2004-12-07T01:27:56Z")
I once received a call from an English vendor on my voicemail. Us women played the message over and over on speakerphone and giggled like schoolgirls. I dated a French Algerian and his voice caused violent and naughty reactions. Husky and beautifully accented, sigh… I can still get hot flashes just remembering that voice - don’t tell my SO, please! I also went on one date with a guy from Edmonton, Canada. He sounded like such an over-the-top Mike Myers that I spent the evening suppressing snorts and guffaws. Needless to say, I was not asked on a second date. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/22 "2004-12-07T09:21:26Z")
> [@JayElle](#): > > I once received a call from an English vendor on my voicemail. Us women played the message over and over on speakerphone and giggled like schoolgirls The people we get our phone and cable TV from here in Northern Ireland have a Scottish call centre for general enquiries. Light friendly Scottish accents, very nice 🆒 But then when the bills aren’t paid (as mine often aren’t) I have to call their English call centre for people who are in trouble, nasty mean English accents, not a hint of sexyness at all ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FreshSheets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FreshSheets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreshSheets)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/23 "2004-12-07T13:20:27Z")
Australian girl checking in… I think Georgian accents are pretty sexy. In terms of the rest of the world, Scottish accents can make mundane chit chat sound much more interesting! However for the life of me, I can’t understand why people like Australian accents. I think we just sound flat and monotonous, like we all just need a low dose anti-depressant. Maybe whatever you grow up with is like that. Does anyone find their own hometown accent sexy? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/24 "2004-12-07T13:40:24Z")
For some reason, a slight kiwi accent can make me blush. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/25 "2004-12-07T15:46:10Z")
I used to work with a woman from the Isle of Man. She had a beautiful accent… alas, she returned to the Isle to get married. ☹ :: swoon :: ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/26 "2004-12-07T15:55:44Z")
I’m English and I’ll cast another vote for Scottish accents. And Irish. But mainly Scottish. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/27 "2004-12-07T16:22:46Z")
> [@FreshSheets](#): > > Does anyone find their own hometown accent sexy? Yes indeedy. I just love a really pronounced New York accent. And I don’t find any other type of accent generally sexy. As far as Australian accents–I can’t believe you think you all sound monotonous and depressed. Every Australian I’ve ever heard sounds so freaking chipper! Like they’ll be more than happy to help you move, rotate your tires, and wrestle that humongous snake that is trying to attack you, all at the same time. And then treat you to a beer and crush the can on their forehead. Even the Australians who are actually depressed sound cheerful as can be. Maybe that’s why we Americans like you so much. You cheer us up. Or something. G’day mate, indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/28 "2004-12-07T16:36:14Z")
I love the English accent, and really, that’s about it. A while ago, we were doing an event in which we had vendors calling us up several times before the event. One of them had a lovely English accent, sounding like he hadn’t lived in the States a week. He even said “Cheers” when hanging up. I was dying to meet him and see what he looked like, but he couldn’t make it at the last second. Ah well. Chances are the looks didn’t match up to the face. ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/29 "2004-12-07T17:10:25Z")
I like most American accents and Canadian accents too but generally I prefer them to be less ‘country’ and more urban. Also Russian accents, and I know it’s clichéd but French accents are pretty nice too though French people sound even better when they’re speaking French. I may not be able to understand all of it but it sounds pretty sexy… ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/30 "2004-12-07T17:39:41Z")
> [@Profane](#): > > I love Scottish accents. Yummy. It makes me weak in the knees. Give him a phone book turned to the “Rs” and close your eyes and listen to him read aloud. Even better if he’s wearing a kilt. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/31 "2004-12-07T21:14:28Z")
is a great smile. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/32 "2004-12-08T00:14:02Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > Is it possible to giggle girlishly and swoon at the same time? 'Cause I think I just did. Oh, my goodness! 🙂 Clearly you are familiar with our excellent BBC costume dramas. Of course that is only to be expected from that most glorious of professions - the librarian. 🆒 I trust you are safely seated for my next piece of news … I have a touch of Scottish ancestry, so am in a position to satisfy your curiosity regarding that colourful combination of kilts and culinary curiosities\*. Toodle pip! \*not just Haggis, but fried Mars bars :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/33 "2004-12-08T02:23:06Z")
English accents make me weak-kneed. Particularly the Elizabeth Hurley style accents. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/34 "2004-12-08T03:35:54Z")
Russian is hot. Spanish is hot. Scottish, Irish, and English are hot, provided I can understand what you’re saying. Colin Farrell, this means you. I think I’ve mentioned before that Billy Boyd could read _binary_ to me and I’d swoon. But we Canadians are sexy to the rest of the world, eh? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/35 "2004-12-08T06:33:07Z")
> [@FreshSheets](#): > > Australian girl checking in… I think Georgian accents are pretty sexy. In terms of the rest of the world, Scottish accents can make mundane chit chat sound much more interesting! > > However for the life of me, I can’t understand why people like Australian accents. I think we just sound flat and monotonous, like we all just need a low dose anti-depressant. Maybe whatever you grow up with is like that. Does anyone find their own hometown accent sexy? OOoooh, I love Australian accents, to me they’re so melodic. I don’t have an accent, I’m Alaskan, talk about flat, we pretty much say it as it’s written. Now of my own country? I just LOOOOOVE what’s Hawaiians call “local” ((sometimes confused with pidgeon by non-locals). Soooooooo sing songy and lovely. Really cute little slang phrases too. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/36 "2004-12-08T08:06:43Z")
Canuck, I am. Japanese, Australian, Czech and German, and umm, Maine-ish. They all get the blood going. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/37 "2004-12-08T08:08:31Z")
Ooh, I forgot Irish. And Newfie. Newfie’s a given. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/38 "2004-12-08T08:15:04Z")
I’d never been one to really swoon over accents in the past… but now I have a boyfriend whose first language is Serbo-Croatian. Ahh, it’s so cute. 😃 I don’t know how I lived without having someone around to say things like, “If it was earlier, we could have made a popcorn!” or “I think that’s a bullshit!”. Just hearing him talk will make me smile, even on a bad day. [/annoying gushing] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/39 "2004-12-08T18:04:30Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > The accent the actress who played Samantha in Bewitched had. A sort of light, southern US accent. Does it for me 🙂 Elizabeth Montgomery, who played Samantha, didn’t have a Southern accent. She had a fairly standard Southern California accent, i.e., relatively few vowel sounds and most of them pronounced in a flat manner. She was born and bred in Los Angeles. But hey, if you liked her accent more power to you! ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289/40 "2004-12-09T01:17:35Z")
Have to say American accents don’t do a lot for me, sorry! But Irish, Scottish, Russian etc, is another thing. At a previous company I worked for, I was in a room full of 40+ year old female senior management who all began to drool when Eamon our Irish underwriter opened his mouth… I’m currently dating an Italian, and that sounds great no matter whether he’s speaking English or Italian. Just fantastic (sigh…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperettes-not-in-u-s-do-hott-american-acccents-turn-you-on/278289.md?page=3)