# Sexiest Accent? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109 "2004-05-20T03:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/21 "2004-05-20T12:01:40Z")
Scottish! _pant_ ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/22 "2004-05-20T12:06:37Z")
Jennifer Garner’s if she has one. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/23 "2004-05-20T12:27:55Z")
Hmm… Spanish, English (John Cleese and Claudia Black would be examples - can anyone tell me what their accents would be considered?), Scottish (à la Ewan MacGregor), and Indo-British (sort of like Amitabh Bachchan). ---
**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:** [May 20, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/24 "2004-05-20T13:04:56Z")
Last year I worked next to an intern from France. It was always a pleasure to hear her lilting accent… :: sweats :: I also like… English, Australian, Irish, Polish, Russian, and Scottish accents. (I used to ride the bus with a lady from Glasgow. She was a redhead, too. :: sweats even more, wipes brow :: ) > [@](#): > > I can’t believe no-one’s mentioned the Canadian accent! I had a Canadian teacher in high school and hearing her talk left me weak at the knees. No wonder I did so well in Science class! - blink \* That’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone mention a Canadian accent. Where was she from? If anywhere in Southern Ontario (Toronto, etc), what you heard was the generic middle-of-the-road accent that the newsreaders here use. This is why so many newsreaders from Canada go to the States… Most Canadian accents aren’t very different from this, except for Quebec English and Newfoundland. There’s actually more variation in the States (Southern accent, etc) ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/25 "2004-05-20T13:13:28Z")
Georgia (the US state, not the country) Turkey Beatles-esque Liverpool accents Italy Australia and probably NZ, although I don’t hear them often so they sound alike to me ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/26 "2004-05-20T13:26:08Z")
Gujarati or Punjabi. Lao. Arabic. Israeli (specifically, Sephardic Jewish… yum). ---
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/27 "2004-05-20T14:37:32Z")
I agree with all the panting and sweating going on in here! heh. Scottish (Ahhhhhhhh EWAN indeed!!), Irish, English, French, Italian, Spanish…MOST foreign (to me, because I’m American) accents are VERRRRRRRRRRRRRY SEXY!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm yummy! Have I said lately that I love men with accents?! I know there was at least one similar thread in recent months about this and I drooled all over THAT one too! Thanks for letting me do it again **TM**! 😉 Now I’ll be daydreaming of lovely accented men all morning!! mmmmmmmmmmm… ---
**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:** [May 20, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/28 "2004-05-20T15:06:10Z")
New York! I can’t be the only one, can I? I’ll take the NYC/Long Island/Jersey accent over any of those poofy foreign ones any day! ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/29 "2004-05-20T15:13:48Z")
A soft, Southern accent when it comes out of the mouth of a lovely young woman who’s saying “Yes, sugar.” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/30 "2004-05-20T16:14:34Z")
Am I the only one who read the thread title as “Sexist Accent”? That being said, I would have to go with German. I remember a very nice German exchange student I never had the nerve to ask out. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/31 "2004-05-20T16:28:56Z")
The Caribbean English accent does it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/32 "2004-05-20T16:29:01Z")
I am a sucker for Brazillian women speaking English. That mix of Spanish and Portuguese inflections…mmmmmmmm yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/33 "2004-05-20T17:06:36Z")
It’s a recurring element of my elaborate “perfect match” fantasies – she always speaks English with some foreign accent. Russian drives me especially wild, but southern Irish, Scottish, and certain English accents also make me weak in the knees. When it comes to American accents, I find a gentle southern drawl highly agreeable. Most other obvious accents grate on my nerves, though. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/34 "2004-05-20T17:14:14Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > New York! > > I can’t be the only one, can I? I’ll take the NYC/Long Island/Jersey accent over any of those poofy foreign ones any day! Nope, you’re not. One of my favorite bartenders had a slightly husky, very thick NYC accent. Every time she said “Hi, Pawlie” to me, I got a little weaker in the knees. Must have been from the sudden but brief loss of blood, if you can pick up what I’m laying down. I could listen to her read the yellow pages… ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/35 "2004-05-20T17:43:15Z")
It entirely depends on the person. Since the person I am most interested in having sex with these days is Australian, the Australian accent is the sexiest to me. Which has me thinking… What time is it in Australia right now? I think I’m due for a phone call. > [@Maureen](#): > > A trace Spanish accent (like, say, Andy Garcia’s)…I melt. He’s Cuban, not Spanish, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/36 "2004-05-20T18:05:09Z")
Yes? That works. He has such a beautiful soft voice, and his accent doesn’t come out too often, but when it does…hummna hummna hummna ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/37 "2004-05-20T19:38:35Z")
I love Irish accents. When I was consulting I was in San Fran and one of my team members was a woman from Ireland - she was majorly hot. Of course, I have a huge thing for red-headed women too. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/38 "2004-05-20T19:44:21Z")
Arabic, esp. those who speak Farsi ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/39 "2004-05-20T19:56:38Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I love Irish accents. When I was consulting I was in San Fran and one of my team members was a woman from Ireland - she was majorly hot. Of course, I have a huge thing for red-headed women too. mmmmmmmmm…Roma Downey… ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109/40 "2004-05-20T19:58:22Z")
I learned something from this thread today. I saw the mention of the Glasgow accent, and thought, “Wow, people are being really specific here, I doubt I could be as specific as that.” Then I thought about a few actors who seemed to have the same accent, one which has particularly caught my attention when I’ve heard it. Turns out, the actors are from Glasgow, Scotland. What a dork. :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-accent/246109.md?page=3)