Sexiest accent survey in British Isles

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: little john cameron
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 06:19 PM

Ah rest mah case!! Its an awfy shame it disnae come across sae guid in writin'
Ane problem is that some folk are that taken wi' the accent that they dinnae hear whit ye are saying.Some times ye have tae speak "pan loaf" afore they can understaun ye. LJC.

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 01:57 PM

You know it's not just your accent that causes discrimination in UK just try buying any larger item from a catologue or magazine ad and tell them you live on one of the many British islands. The same thing happened with an insurance company who had sent us an advert, when we made enquiries they said "Oh we don't cover the islands."

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 01:45 PM

I'd love to Bert but I can't quite run to the cost of an international call. Maybe I'll send something of me singing to MCR though.

In the meanwhile, if you want to hear this mixed up accent, why not join us in Hearme sometime? It is usually good fun and plently of good singing too!

And as for you Sinsull, all I can say is :-)

Jon

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 01:41 PM

Did the survey throw up any gender variations? Is an Irish accent equally attractive on a man as it is on a woman? And what sort of Irish accents are they talking about anyway - Kerry and Belfast accents could be from different planets. And so forth.

I think the whole thing sounds a bit too neat and tidy. When I'm phoning up a bank or a helpline of some sort, I don't want a voice that sounds sexy. I want one that sounds competent and interested and helpful. Though maybe that's what they mean by sexy...

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 01:37 PM

ok, how many here vote for Bill Sables Geordie accent?? Me, me, me!

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 01:26 PM

my natural brummie accent was beaten out of me as a child and so I sound a cross between joyce grenfell and Maureen Lipman- spent my entire childhood reciting --My father's car is a JAG-UAR'which was funny since he had a clapped out Jaguar for many years'the Geordie accent is definitely the sexiest providing it is in the right body!

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:49 PM

Arriving at our North Yorkshire B&B at about midnight, we knocked cautiously. At first all was silence, then the voice of our attractive hostess lilted from her bedroom window: "Oh! I'm coomin'!" Since then, I have always thought of the North Yorkshire accent as quite sexy.

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:43 PM

Jon, Definitely, the sexiest voice on Hearme! SS

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Bert
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:10 PM

That sounds quite a good mix Jon, call us on Mudcat Radio so that we can assess your voice.
Bert.

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:04 PM

hey, that was going to be my advice! Roger, the bank is discriminating. Go for it.

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:03 PM

Well, I wonder what being a mixture of Shropshire, North Wales and Kent makes me!

Jon

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: GUEST,art
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:02 PM

roger

apply for a job with alliance and leicester and if you don't get it sue them for being accentist?

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Bert
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:01 PM

It's gotta be Hereford. Very soft, not as sing-songy as Welsh and not as broad as West Country.

Bert, (who's Cockney, which is a 'bluddy orful' accent)

Subject: RE: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 11:52 AM

(in my best Brummie accent): Who do I sue?
RtS
:o(

Subject: Sexiest accent survey in British Isles
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 11:49 AM

Just read this bit of news online:

Updated 9:07 AM ET June 26, 2000

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish accents are the sexiest in the British Isles, closely followed by people with a Scottish lilt to their voice, a survey reported by the Daily Express showed Saturday.

If you speak the "Queen's English" you come a poor third, with "Geordie" accents from Newcastle being the next sexiest and "Brummy" accents from Birmingham being the most likely to be a turn off, the paper said.

The survey was carried out by the Alliance & Leicester mortgage bank.

"One third of people now prefer to deal with their bank on the telephone, so we wanted to find out which voice they would like to hear," a spokeswoman for Alliance & Leicester said in the Daily Express.