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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Brit living here in DC and I'm often told "I just love your accent!" (BTW, I don't flatter myself because who opens conversation with "I just hate your accent"?) In return, there are so many US accents that I find appealing - Texan drawl, Noo Yawk, Kennedy-esque Boston - but when I mentioned some of them to my American friends, some winced and said they found them grating. Sure, there are a few UK accents that irritate me (Brummie, Liverpudlian, Essex) but Americans may love them. So which accents - American or other - do you just love and hate?[/quote]

Yeah, you just named all the American accents I can't stand. New York doesn't bother me as much but Southern drawl and the hardcore native Boston accent are awful.

I enjoy many accents on the British Isles but I cannot stand Essex or Cockney. I watched this TV series from Channel 4 called "Educating Essex" and the sound of teenagers whining in an Essex accent is horrible.

I don't know what to make of a scouse accent because I can barely understand it. So I guess I don't like it? I watched an interview once following a World Cup event that had comments from Jamie Carragher, who is a Liverpudlian, and Philipp Lahm, who is a native German speaker who can barely string three English words together fluently, but guess who I had a much easier time understanding? I felt like Carragher needed subtitles.[/quote]

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