What's your favorite English accent?

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What's your favorite English language accent?

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La reina Isabel's one.

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Australian
South African
Californian

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Yorkshire and Geordie

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South African

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British like Emily Blunt's, Vanessa Kirby's, Benedict Cumberbatch's, Tom Hiddleston's, and more.

To Brits here: Are they ^ all considered posh London accents?

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New Yorker (sadly it's dying out)
Southern American

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The proper British one.

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Scouse

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I just love British accents, in all its forms.

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Southern US

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Irish

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British like Emily Blunt's, Vanessa Kirby's, Benedict Cumberbatch's, Tom Hiddleston's, and more.

To Brits here: Are they ^ all considered posh London accents?

VK's accent is Received Pronunciation English, also known as Queens English or BBC Newsreader English. It's considered to be the standard, uncorrupted form of British English, i.e. how the best of the best class of people speak and how everyone should/would do if they weren't uneducated plebs. So yes, posh. I'm not familiar enough with the others you listed to say if they also speak with it. But think Judy Dench and Joanna Lumley and Helen Mirren. Maybe even Emma Watson though it has been a while since I heard her speak so have no idea if her Hermione voice was her own.

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The English accent, of course. Well spoken English is a wonderful language, that's why I love listening to the BBC. I also like the Scottish accent and some American accents, like Brent Goff's Southern accent. Can't stand the Irish, Australian and NZ accents, and the especially annoying LA accent. It's a shame most US series are now spoken like that. American English was much more beautiful on TV and film in the 1960s and 1970s.

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I can't stand British accent, so annoying.

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I can't stand British accent, so annoying.

There is no British accent. There are several accents in England, more than one Scottish accent, there's the beautiful Welsh accent, and the Northern Irish accent.

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British like Emily Blunt's, Vanessa Kirby's, Benedict Cumberbatch's, Tom Hiddleston's, and more.

To Brits here: Are they ^ all considered posh London accents?

VK's accent is Received Pronunciation English, also known as Queens English or BBC Newsreader English. It's considered to be the standard, uncorrupted form of British English, i.e. how the best of the best class of people speak and how everyone should/would do if they weren't uneducated plebs. So yes, posh. I'm not familiar enough with the others you listed to say if they also speak with it. But think Judy Dench and Joanna Lumley and Helen Mirren. Maybe even Emma Watson though it has been a while since I heard her speak so have no idea if her Hermione voice was her own.

Thanks. I read somewhere that Vannessa's accent is posh, but I didn't know it is the standard. Wow.

In the VF video: I also like listening to Jeremy Iron's voice. He has a way of enunciating the words which sound lovely to my ears.

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^ edit: Irons'

The kind of voice you'd want to hear on stage, especially Shakespeare theatre.

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Southern US.

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Australian the women have such a soft tone. English accents like Cara’s are nice too. And acted American accents are entertaining, haha.

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I like the Louisiana accent from the States and the Welsh accent is nice on women.

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Masterlist

America:
New York
New Orleans
Jamaica

UK:
Irish
Yorkshire

Aus:
n/a sounds like shite

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I can't stand British accent, so annoying.

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The UK accent(s) in Harry Potter sound cool, but when spoken in front of you, it's a completely different story.

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Definitely Edinburgh

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I absolutely hate the US South. From Texas to Georgia I dislike them all. Transatlantic is annoying too because of the way they enunciate their words. Thank goodness it has mostly died out.

I'm neutral to okay with everything else.

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The English accent, of course. Well spoken English is a wonderful language, that's why I love listening to the BBC... Can't stand the Irish, Australian and NZ accents, and the especially annoying LA accent. It's a shame most US series are now spoken like that. American English was much more beautiful on TV and film in the 1960s and 1970s.

Same. I can't stand the loud voice of Americans on TV game shows, talk shows, YouTube presentations, which has become sort of a standard to for other countries too. So noisy. Proper English accent sounds soothing and melodious.

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My favourite accent is the way Alicia Keys talks. She’s from New York but I love her deep sultry voice and style of speaking. My least fave is the way Adele talks. Love her singing voice but the way she talks hurts my ears.

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British like Emily Blunt's, Vanessa Kirby's, Benedict Cumberbatch's, Tom Hiddleston's, and more.

To Brits here: Are they ^ all considered posh London accents?

Received Pronunciation. Not necessarily London but very common in middle/upper middle class boarding school types. As posh as it gets without actually being aristocracy.

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I find Indian English accents really pleasing...

Otherwise, Scottish. The great vowel shift was a tragedy.

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Welsh (very lyrical sounding) and Texan.

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I can't stand British accent, so annoying.

There is no British accent. There are several accents in England, more than one Scottish accent, there's the beautiful Welsh accent, and the Northern Irish accent.

This. (Although I imagine there is equally more than Welsh or NI accent… )

Even the thread title is infuriating

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British like Emily Blunt's, Vanessa Kirby's, Benedict Cumberbatch's, Tom Hiddleston's, and more.

To Brits here: Are they ^ all considered posh London accents?

Received Pronunciation. Not necessarily London but very common in middle/upper middle class boarding school types. As posh as it gets without actually being aristocracy.

Thanks. I should be more specific. As I have learned from the other posts here -- I am referring to the English accent -- most notably the one you and the other anon mentioned.

I love listening to it because I can hear the words clearly, every letter is sounded or pronounced as it should be. It's neither nasal nor guttural, and it's not an exaggerated accent wherein I can barely make out the words they're saying. With apologies to Aussies' Strine, bacon and eggs sound like baked necks to me.

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I can't stand British accent, so annoying.

There is no British accent. There are several accents in England, more than one Scottish accent, there's the beautiful Welsh accent, and the Northern Irish accent.

This. (Although I imagine there is equally more than Welsh or NI accent… )

Even the thread title is infuriating

There is more than one Welsh accent, of course, but I can't name them. Tom Jones, for instance, a man of the people, speaks in one way, whilst Catherine Zeta-Jones speaks in another. On the other hand, Timothy Dalton and Anthony Hopkins still have a slight accent, but Michael Sheen not so much. Neil Kinnock has a distinctive Welsh accent too.

As for Northern Ireland, the Unionists have a different accent from the Irish Republicans, and the latter's is different from the Irish accent(s).

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I can't stand British accent, so annoying.

There is no British accent. There are several accents in England, more than one Scottish accent, there's the beautiful Welsh accent, and the Northern Irish accent.

There is no Welsh accent either. There's a vast difference between South Wales and North Wales and even in those places. I went to university in Bangor North Wales and even the Caernarfon accent (about 5 miles away in one direction) is radically different from what you'd get in Bangor. Neither sound like the stereotypical Welsh accent which is usually a Valleys one

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I like a Liverpool accent
Hate the whispery posh one a la Kate Middleton

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I like a Liverpool accent
Hate the whispery posh one a la Kate Middleton

Girl what why You okay?

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^ edit: Irons'

The kind of voice you'd want to hear on stage, especially Shakespeare theatre.

Him doing the audiobook of Brideshead Revisited is

If you listen to audiobooks look out for anything narrated by Samuel West - it’s hard to distinguish him from Irons. Both have sumptuous voices - I’d listen to them narrate anything

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^ edit: Irons'

The kind of voice you'd want to hear on stage, especially Shakespeare theatre.

Him doing the audiobook of Brideshead Revisited is

If you listen to audiobooks look out for anything narrated by Samuel West - it’s hard to distinguish him from Irons. Both have sumptuous voices - I’d listen to them narrate anything

That's a lovely way to put it. I just love listening to Jeremy's voice, and I'll definitely look him (Samuel) up. Thanks for the heads up.

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I like a Liverpool accent
Hate the whispery posh one a la Kate Middleton

Girl what why You okay?

This is the second anon giving a nod for the scouse accent in here and there's only you questioning it. I make that 2-1. The match isn't over yet though. Allow me to make it 3-1

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Rhode Island hands down. My wife’s accent. Love it. Love her.

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Whatever Jamie‘s from Bly Manor is. Northern English. She’s supposed to be from Lancashire specifically.

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The Kings English, sorry i'm snotty and posh.

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Scottish
And a very soft Irish accent, so sexy.

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I love Multicultural London English. They sound so much cooler than these outdated posh accents

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I like a Liverpool accent
Hate the whispery posh one a la Kate Middleton

Girl what why You okay?

This is the second anon giving a nod for the scouse accent in here and there's only you questioning it. I make that 2-1. The match isn't over yet though. Allow me to make it 3-1

I take Scouse over posh too

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My Siri voice is set on Irish.

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Essex - you can hear the spray tan in their voices

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My family is Irish and they say that as Americans we overpronounce everything. I can barely understand Irish people because they don’t enunciate and seem to even breathe in the middle of words. So much mumbling lol.

The one accent I cannot even attempt to mimic is Australian. That weird back of throat thing.

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Why do Californians sound like they have a Russian accent?

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I came here to see if there was any love for the Baltimore accent, but I guess it's rather rare in America, so maybe no one outside the states even knows is exists.