Accents

bred not bread

I can't stand the New Zealand accent (with apologies to all our New Zealand members). Us Brummies take a lot of flack for our accent but I love it. I think a lot of people get Brummie and Black Country accents mixed up. I am a Brummie born and bread but I sometimes have difficulty understanding the Black Country one. I love the Southern Irish accent.

The Scottish accent you're describing is a particularly working class accent from Glasgow. Go to the more salubrious parts of the West End and you'll hear a very different Glasgow accent - which I imagine is the same of most parts of the UK.

I don't like very thick Black Country/Liverpool/Laahndaahn/ridiculous marbles-in-the-mouth type of posh accents.

I think often city accents are ugly (Liverpool, Birmingham etc), but country accents can be quite attractive. Overall, though, I much prefer standard RP, and wish children were taught to use it more. I’ve heard children on TV whose accents are so strong they would be incomprehensible outside their immediate area. It must hold them back in life.

I love accents too - especially Geordie. Also dialect which is more related to the done/did mistake. It's fascinating.
Don't you have an accent, Gabriella?
I find the Brummie accent, intonation difficult to follow, but don't dislike it.
Glaswegian is very ideosyncratic, but I love listening to it.

I love accents...and have to admit a soft spot for Scottish accents, especially Glaswegian.

If pushed though, I'm not too keen on a Southern accent ie Devon / Cornwall.
I do wonder if it's linked to a memory of a relative though who was a pretty awful person!haha