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What is your most favourite accent

My ears change over the course of time and so does my preference

If it was right here, right now I'd go for Texan
It has a very pleasant tone imo

Cockney. It's cute and I wish I spoke with it instead of the German one that I have. Just imagine how popular I would have been in school.

Texan Southern Drawl

The afternoon before Thanksgiving in 1982 or so, I was on my motorcycle in heavy traffic in Houston on my way out of town when a constable coming toward me motioned for me to pull over.

So I pulled over and he pulled up behind me with his lights on.

He walked up to me and said that an officer back up the road a bit had called to tell him to stop the next motorcycle because it had a fake license plate. He said that as soon as he turned around and pulled up behind me, he knew it wasn't me. While he had me stopped, he did check my driver's license and handed it back to me.

As I was putting it up after he checked it, he waved over the next motorcycle to come along. That was the one with the fictitious license plate. He asked the other motorcyclist why he had a home-made plate and the motorcyclist replied that he had lost the plate and so he made one until he could get back to Michigan to replace it.

The officer responded in one of the best Texas southern drawls I have ever heard, "Well, I don't know what they do in Michigan, but here in Texas, we do not make our own license plates." You had to hear it to appreciate it.

The funny thing was that I didn't hear any southern Texas drawl from him before that.

In general, though, I think that television, radio, and travel is the killer of regional accents. We all sound more and more alike.

Somerset or geordie.

Irish, Dublin region.

Norwegian, or, the Norwegian accents I have heard (I assume there are lots of regional variants, but I'm not tuned into them.) I find the way it bounces up and down very cute.

I wonder if anyone favours their own accent

^My accent makes Americans think I am from New Jersey. That's not a very good accent in my opinion.

the scotch burr. like Sean Connery or Sir William Connolly.

Well Allzz Yah Allzz, themz dialects on or about the more Southerly parts of this here Nation . You allz gots me on a off Day. Normally This here Yank, has been enjoyin a more Formalistic verzion of a English speakinz .

several decades ago I read a book called "Jimmy carter's america- a dictionary of southern speak" - which had several north/south word definitions in it, one that stuck in my mind was the northern/southern definition of the word "smear" - northern definition was a stain spread by friction of one object against another. the southern definition of smear was "one's organ of hearing" or ear, couched in a sample (phonetic) query- "whazzat unduh mah hay-uh? whah, that's SM-EAR!" ("what's that under my hair? why, that's my ear!")

I'm from Ohio so I have I guess a typical American Non-Southern sounding voice? I dunno, I've been mistaken for Canadian a couple times.