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!
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).
On women, most attractive: Russian, German etc.
Least attractive: Most British accents, Southern and Asian.
Spanish (a la Penelope Cruz) or a typical English one (Elizabeth Hurley)
One of the most attractive accents I’ve heard was from a Japanese/Senegalese woman who spoke Japanese with a French@West African accent.
aha ruadh you beat me to it! 
Gold star to you. Some bits of ignorance take more fighting than others. 
<Celyn is thinking of the posts that like Scottish accents and is planning to stowaway on a 'plane to go to the U.S. or wherever.
As for me, I like Irish and Welsh accents. I actually like the English Geordie accent, tho’ I know many people don’t seem to. (Not saying I would always understand it though!
West INdian accents also sound nice.
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::
French accents!!
No contest really, they just beat everything in my opinion.
: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."::
It’s no contest: Scottish.
Oh oh, you’re not going to like this, but Ian Richardson is a Scot.
In order:
Ones I dislike:
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).
Scottish or South African
or Geordie
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.
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:
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.)
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?
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.
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.
I know someone who was born in Spain and moved to Australia when he was about 11. The Spanish/Australian accent is incredible.
I favour a particular mix of semi-posh Cantabridgian, roughed up a little with street bristol