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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/s...re-stupid.html

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

.....Says the ozzy journalist and researcher who was educated at a scouser's university


Personally I find the Kathy Burke type accent the most retarded sounding IMHO...especially in a expat bar in Benidorm.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

That's "Brummie" is it not ?

andythejock01wrx

I quite like Brummie & Weegie accents. It's the gangsta rappa tones I can't abide!

g7prs

iTrader: (5)

Fit aboot the sheepshaggers and deepest darkest fife

what would scooby do

some sarf london and essex accents (North of and including Romford) sound just as bad

dis is my braaaaaaaaaaaava, and my faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaava, and my maaaaaaaaaaaavaaaaa

CREWJ

And I thought us Welsh sound stupid.

what would scooby do

I actually like watching welsh tv coverage of football and rugby..

*noise**noise* *noise* *noise* off side *noise* *noise* *noise* *noise*

*noise* *noise* *noise* *noise* and he works part time for Costco *noise* *noise* *noise* *noise*



It's a great mix of welsh and modern english that the language has no equivalent for..

Oh and welsh girls accents.. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

CREWJ

I understand parts of it which is worse!

DYK

you would think these researchers would actually go into Brum and know that not the whole of Birmingham talk Black Country..

Mrfastbaz

there is brummie and there is yam yam which is the black country area...wolverhampton area and over that way ....so anyway wots wrong with brummie the worst accent has got to be pidgeon english ......

TelBoy

Whatever a pidgeon is???



Glaswegian doesn't sound "stupid" to me. Not when you've got Scouse to compare it against, anyway

Will

Speak for your self, you homo!!

CREWJ

You know you love it

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

That's the way we sez it rand 'ere, Tel.

Just to add; Black country accents also varies from area to area. Wolverhamtom (historically not in BC in by the way) tends to be a hybrid Brummy/Walsall BC accent, whereas more towards Dudley its more purer. But even round there it varies as a Tipton accent can differ from a Cradley accent, same with Brierley towards the glass making areas (as opposed to the chain mekkers ). Then further south the accent changes again where we get Worcestershire accents mixed in (i.e they talk posher with less use of local dialect ).

Also note we have dialect (which inludes invention of vocabulary specific to the area) as well as the accent. Now from my experience Brummies don't tend to use dialect as much, they just talk with an accent (well, these days at least). Whereas in parts of the Back Country, traditional dialect is still alive and kicking (just about, as the kids try and talk wannabe rappa/gangsta' ).

Best is a Bangladeshi speaking full on Black Country dialect with an asian accent. Thats 'real' multicultural Britain for you

Leslie

Holiday makers make the mistake of thinking the same about the Devon accent.

They don't realise that even if a Devonian speaks slowly, he thinks fast!

Les