THE UK has reportedly fallen out of love with the
According to a Big 7 Travel survey, the accent found among New Jerseyans has the least sex appeal compared to the state accents. "Poor New Jersey dropped down one place from 2019 to end up in the last spot this year, making it the least sexy accent in America.
Cockney was found to be the most annoying accent in Britain.
Brits reportedly find the London accent the sexiest by some distance, with almost one-in-five people (17.89%) voting in its favour. The scouse accent had to settle for runner-up, with 10.24% of people finding Liverpudlian the most endearing.
Received Pronunciation (RP)
Nevertheless, RP remains the national standard and has traditionally been considered by many to be the most prestigious accent of British English.
The standard British accent is something called received pronunciation, or RP. Geographically, people who speak with this accent live in the southeastern part of England. This is traditionally a “posh” part of England, so this accent is considered to be upper/middle class.
The answer may surprise you!
In most countries around the world, it's common to hear spoken English on television or in the cinema. For this reason, students may aspire to speak a sort of 'Hollywood English'. Others may consider the formality of British English, the 'Queen's English', the best English accent to learn.
The French accent has been considered for many years as being the sexiest accent in the world.
THE Brummie accent is Britain's most comical, research has found. A team of experts spent two months studying how regional accents influence how funny a person is deemed to be. Received Pronunciation (RP) picked up the lowest score, amusing just 1.1%.
The Cockney accent has long been regarded as an indicator of low status.
The British Accent
The Great British accent proved to be the most difficult of all the accents to imitate – along with the regional Yorkshire and Cockney pronunciations, in particular.
The New Zealand vowel system has undergone what linguists consider a “shift” in pronunciation. This means that a letter, such as “e”, no longer has the same pronunciation that the rest of the English world uses. For example: “Test” in New Zealand is pronounced as “Tist” = /e/ has become /i/.
Irish accent
The accents or dialects that you will come across most often will be Dublin English, Ulster English and West and South-West Hiberno-English. According to Everest Language School, “the Dublin accent is probably the one you will hear the most.
Variously referred to as the 'Queen's English', 'BBC English' or 'Oxford English', Received Pronunciation, or RP for short, is the accent usually described as typically British. Find out more about its origins and its current status in the UK.
It comes as no surprise then that many people rank the West Country accent as the most challenging English dialect to understand due to its heavy drawl and slurred syllable endings. The West Country accent originates from the region of Southwestern England, bordered by Wales and the Bristol Channel.
The results revealed that women and men find different accents attractive, and the only common accents on both lists were Australian and Southern. While men desired Israeli and Colombian accents the most, this was not mirrored amongst the women who were surveyed, who ultimately preferred British and Spanish accents.
#1 The British accent
The accent proved particularly popular in countries like China, Sweden, India and the USA. Additionally, the survey showed that Asian countries like South Korea, Japan and Malaysia were also allured by English and other UK accents.
What English accent is the least understandable to the most people? Scottish seems to be the hardest to understand; but it depends on where you live. If you are living in UK, then all other accents should be easy for you; if you live in US, all British accents would be hard to understand.
The Inner Circle — The smallest circle, this section includes countries in which English is the native language of the majority of the population: mainly the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, and much of Canada.
The Netherlands has emerged as the nation with the highest English language proficiency, according to the EF English Proficiency Index, with a score of 72.
Anyone who has heard the Queen's speeches will recognise her distinctive British accent. This is RP – 'Received Pronunciation'.
The monarch speaks in British Received Pronunciation (RP), a speaking style that was adopted in the late eighteenth century among the upper classes. Insider spoke to Claire Larkin, a cultural expert at Babbel, who explained how using this speaking style will make people believe you're posh, even if you're not.
Geordie. People from Newcastle speak a dialect called Geordie, which is one of the strongest and most distinctive accents in England.