The French accent, previously considered the sexiest in the world, has been dethroned by the British accent, aka the Queen's English, in a global study carried out by Time Out in over 30 countries. Sacrebleu! The French accent has lost the first spot as the world's sexiest accent to Queen's English.
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.
Bostonian. One of America's most imitated and parodied accents, Boston almost comes out on top of the country's sexiest accents. And yes, just like Mahhhhk Wahlberg, locals really do say “pahk yuh cahr in hahvuhd yahd”.
Taking the top spot was London which, however vague, is the accent that one in five Brits find the most romantic. This was especially true for women, with just 15% of men voting for the London accent compared with 21% of women.
Of the 2,000 respondents, nearly a quarter (23%) found the Yorkshire brogue the friendliest.
People from Newcastle speak a dialect called Geordie, which is one of the strongest and most distinctive accents in England.
The Canadian accent is most closely related to General American English with similar rules for pronunciation and accent. The main difference is how Canadians will speak some diphthongs (a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable) higher than their American neighbors.
Another study found that the British accent was rated as more credible than the local accent in commercials—and that a British accent even increased customers' intention to purchase the product in question.
The sexiest -- and least sexy -- accents in the United States have been ranked, and 'Californian' cracked the top 10. In a survey run by travel company Big 7 across its 1.5 million social media followers, the California accent was ranked the tenth sexiest in the country.
Australian English often contains higher levels of nasal resonance to oral resonance. Resonance refers to voice acoustics and is determined by where the bulk of sound vibration from the voice is reinforced in the your face.
Australian English arose from a dialectal melting pot created by the intermingling of early settlers who were from a variety of dialectal regions of Great Britain and Ireland, though its most significant influences were the dialects of Southeast England.
In Australia, this dialect is sometimes called Strine /ˈstɹɑɪn/ (or "Strayan" /ˈstɹæɪən/, a shortening of the word Australian), and a speaker of the dialect may be referred to as an Ocker.
The reason that standard accents are perceived more favourably is probably because of the social and cultural pressures that operate within a community. So, standard English is perceived more favourably than regional dialects because of the social and cultural authority of those who speak with an SSBE accent.
The Sound Of California
— at the suggestion that they have an accent. Their accent is indeed similar to General American, meaning it sounds to American ears like it isn't an accent at all. Everyone has an accent, however. As with most accents, the vowels are what really set Californians apart.
It's not. The Midwestern accent is considered the standard accent. It's because of this: And actually the “California accent” is a small variation of General American English , as many of the earlier generations of “white” California settlers were mostly from parts of the country that spoke this dialect.
Regional accents across England are slowly fading, and are being replaced nationwide with a more 'southern' way of speaking, according to research.
The rich variety of dialects in Britain can to a large extent be attributed to the fact that English has been spoken on this island for more than 1500 years. This long time period has allowed for the language to develop into regional varieties of English.
Generally speaking though, it can be said that the Welsh accent is probably closest to an Australian one. This is due to their similarities in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary choices – both Welsh and Australians tend to end words on a 'v' sound rather than an 'r' sound like other English speakers do.
In the Star Wars film franchise, the character Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones) noticeably speaks with a deep bass tone and a Mid-Atlantic accent to suggest his position of high authority; Princess Leia (played by Carrie Fisher) and Queen Amidala (played by Natalie Portman) also use this accent when switching ...
Most scholars have roughly located “split off” point between American and British English as the mid-18th-Century.
Today, this means that there are three types of Australian accent. Some people speak with a “general” accent, which is more or less the way it has been for centuries. Other people speak with an accent that is closer to RP English. The third group of people have a “broad” Australian accent.
A very broad Australian accent can be exceptionally hard to understand (a common joke is that we slur all our words together because it's too hot to put spaces in), but if you spend time in Australia you'll likely pick it up.
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 Northeastern accent topped the category of smartest sounding accents. Prebly noted that there are more than 7,100 languages spoken around the world and more than 30 dialects in the United States alone.