# What is the most attractive accent? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 2, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619 "2003-08-02T23:16:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/21 "2003-08-03T05:26:44Z")
When I read this thread title, I immediately thought Irish. Irish accents are so beautiful. I’m also crazy about Australian accents. Australia is where I want to eventually end up. Like southern accents on guys, too. I like cowboys and the accent they have. What’s kind of weird is that I like midwestern accents, like mine. It’s not so much of an accent as how certain words are said, like “pop” instead of “soda”. I believe I would really miss the Midwestern accent if I moved away! ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/22 "2003-08-03T08:04:12Z")
Salem, koeeoaddi, repeat after me: Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Anyway, the sexiest accent is Donegal (north west Ireland). ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/23 "2003-08-03T08:23:22Z")
On women, most attractive: Russian, German etc. Least attractive: Most British accents, Southern and Asian. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/24 "2003-08-03T10:06:06Z")
Spanish (a la Penelope Cruz) or a typical English one (Elizabeth Hurley) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/25 "2003-08-03T10:33:42Z")
One of the most attractive accents I’ve heard was from a Japanese/Senegalese woman who spoke Japanese with a French@West African accent. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/26 "2003-08-03T10:45:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*Salem, koeeoaddi, repeat after me: Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Scottish accents _are_ British accents… > > \*\* aha **ruadh** you beat me to it! 🙂 Gold star to you. 🙂 Some bits of ignorance take more fighting than others. ☹ \ **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:** [August 3, 2003, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/27 "2003-08-03T10:49:33Z") I once worked with a woman from the Isle of Man. Now there’s a sexy accent. Sadly, she left Toronto and went back to the Island to get married… ::sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![RealTronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RealTronic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealTronic)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/28 "2003-08-03T14:04:01Z")
French accents!! No contest really, they just beat everything in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/29 "2003-08-03T17:00:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*Salem, koeeoaddi, repeat after me: Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Scottish accents _are_ British accents. > > Anyway, the sexiest accent is Donegal (north west Ireland). \*\* :smack: D’oh! Sorry **ruadh** and **Celyn**. You’re fighting 48 years of ingrained ignorance, but I promise I’ll try to remember to say “English” when I mean an accent like Ian Richardson’s. ::walks away repeating " Scottish _is_ British.":: ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/30 "2003-08-03T17:10:35Z")
It’s no contest: Scottish. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/31 "2003-08-03T17:16:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by koeeoaddi \* > :smack: D’oh! Sorry **ruadh** and **Celyn**. You’re fighting 48 years of ingrained ignorance, but I promise I’ll try to remember to say “English” when I mean an accent like Ian Richardson’s. > > ::walks away repeating " Scottish _is_ British.":: Oh oh, you’re not going to like this, but [Ian Richardson](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Richardson,+Ian) is a Scot. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/32 "2003-08-03T18:37:20Z")
In order: 1. British/Australian (I know they are different but I like them both equally) 2. Irish 3. Russian 4. Danish 5. Swedish 6. Southern/Texan Ones I dislike: 1. Asian 2. Spanish 3. German Note on the ‘dislike’ list: On the right woman any accent can be sexy. Penelop Cruz is one such, Salma Hayek another. I will admit I find asian accents almost universally annoying. I wonder if this is just me or the two are different in a particular fashion that asians would find my accent equally annoying (except of course I don’t have an accent 😉 ). (I know asian languages comprise many more than one language but they have more similarities to each other than they do to english). ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/33 "2003-08-03T20:15:21Z")
Scottish or South African or Geordie ---
**Author:** ![ProjectOmega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@ProjectOmega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProjectOmega)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/34 "2003-08-03T20:46:42Z")
British/Irish/Scottish, Australian, Russian (omgsohot), a light Spanish or Italian accent… all so very nice. A light German accent can be very sexy too. I don’t like southern US accents at all, man or woman. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/35 "2003-08-03T22:54:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*Salem, koeeoaddi, repeat after me: Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Scottish accents _are_ British accents. Scottish accents _are_ British accents. > > \*\* You know, as soon as I hit submit, it occured to me that I was probably wrong. And I have a very good friend who is English, too. So, please fight some more of my ignorance (and I don’t know why this doesn’t stick in my head. I’ve even been to England!) There are the country names separately. Then there is British (Great Britain) and then there is UK. Can you please define them and maybe if I read it three thousand times, I’ll finally get it right in my mind. Every time I think I have it, I mess it up again. Yes, I could look at a map, but I’ve done that and maybe embarrassing myself like this will make me remember once and for all. (Sorry for the hijack) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/36 "2003-08-03T23:24:03Z")
Love the Minnesota/Wisconsin accent. French is damned nice as well. I think that _any_ accent on a woman, if it’s subtle is sexy. However, I positively _hate_ Fran Drescher’s accent. (Her voice should be labeled a WMD as far as I’m concerned.) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/37 "2003-08-04T00:00:11Z")
Irish is wonderful, as is the Scots accent but I DO find it difficult to understand a Scot with a thick brogue. Are there major local variations with the Scottish and Irish accents, say as much as the English regional differences? ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/38 "2003-08-04T03:10:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Salem \* > There are the country names separately. Then there is British (Great Britain) and then there is UK. Can you please define them and maybe if I read it three thousand times, I’ll finally get it right in my mind. Every time I think I have it, I mess it up again. Yes, I could look at a map, but I’ve done that and maybe embarrassing myself like this will make me remember once and for all. Put simply, England plus Scotland plus Wales together make Great Britain. Add Northern Ireland and you’ve got the UK. The adjective British officially applies to any of the people of Great Britain or the UK, but you might want to check your audience before using it in Northern Ireland. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kambuckta \* > Are there major local variations with the Scottish and Irish accents, say as much as the English regional differences? Yes. The only limiting factor is the size of population, so although there is more variety in England there is plenty in Scotland and Ireland and some in Wales too. ---
**Author:** ![Vastard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Vastard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vastard)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/39 "2003-08-04T03:17:33Z")
I know someone who was born in Spain and moved to Australia when he was about 11. The Spanish/Australian accent is incredible. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619/40 "2003-08-04T04:23:16Z")
I favour a particular mix of semi-posh Cantabridgian, roughed up a little with street bristol 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-attractive-accent/192619.md?page=3)