Whats your favorite accent?

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I was watching tv with my daughter last night and she was going on about how great this one actor was because he has the best British accent and she said how she would love to marry a guy with a British accent. We started talking about what accents we think are attractive in guys and she said British and Eastern European. I said I like Italian from Italy and Brooklyn Wiseguy Italian too. Also agreed with her about Eastern European and all European really, but I also like that extreme Northern Canadian type accent too. Southern accents we are used to and we don't notice them, we only notice the lack of one and it makes us wonder where the person is from, unless we hear them talk on tv, in which case we do notice the Southern accent, because it's almost always fake and grates on every Southerner's nerves. I also think a for real Indian accent is hot. American Indian, and the accent like the big Indian in Poltergeist 2. I've met a few for real Indians, but only met one with that accent and he worked at a health food store so he may have just put it on to be more believable, cause he did dress stereotypically like in the movies for an Indian guy - jeans, cowboy boots, shiny belt buckle, Western shirt, braids, and a cowboy hat, so it could have all been a put on like that guy who played the crying Indian in the littering commerical in the 70's - he was Italian, no Indian blood at all.

When I first met my husband he had a nondescript Yankee accent (not New England Yankee, up North Yankee and not the cool up North one) and it intrigued me. We spent a lot of time at first just telling each other words to say and laughing at how it sounded cause it was cool and different. He said that he would NEVER get a Southern accent, but you can't tell the difference between him and any other redneck down here now, when he speaks.

So, what's ya'lls favorite accents and are there any you just hate? I don't particularly like the Minnesota accent or the Boston accent like the Kennedy's have, but the working class Boston accent is cool - probably because it sounds like a Brooklyn accent to me.

Southern happens to be one of my favorite.

The working class Boston accent sounds nothing like Brooklyn. Theres a Boston Italian accent that does, though.

For real Southern or Hollywood Southern? Mine is for real Southern and you have heard me talk. It's not that drippy, drawl with all the dropped r's like in the movies. The one you hear in movies and tv isn't like any actual Southern accent, it's actually a mix of several. It's the Atlanta socialite inflection mixed with the Virginia Tidewater pronounciation, with the occasional Appalachian twang thrown in. Nobody talks like they do in the movies. Dolly Pardon has a for real Southern accent, and her's is Tennessee. There are a few more but Dolly was the only one in Steel Magnolias that I was able to stomach, accentwise.

Danish, from the Jutland area

For real Southern!! !!

My Gon-Gon's Hong Kong Cantonese accent. He hates his accent but I think it sounds so musical and different.

I have a Welsh friend. She's from south Wales and her accent is so tuneful and sing song. And my Irish friend's accent too.

For some reason, I really like country accents (UK). You can't say "Somerset" in a country accent without sounding so sing song.

I used to work with a guy from Newcastle in England, and I could have listened to him talk all day.

I admit, my favourite is received pronunciation (posh British) accent. The one I can't stand is Austrailian. I'm not too fond of Glaswegian either, or the general northern accents in Britain. Another favourite is Italian, it's beautiful.

I like British and Scottish accents.

I think British, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Australian, and Kiwi accents are beautiful.

Irish.

I heard the Geordie accent is more conservative than other varieties of English, so it is closer to Anglo-Saxon, specifically to the Northumbrian dialect of Anglo-Saxon. That alone is pretty cool.
I'm watching the series Vikings, and the people on there try to speak with a sort of Scandinavian accent. I think it sounds nice.

Major gripe! Americans calling English people British. Britain contains Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Is what you mean by "British" middle to upper class English accents i.e. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Northam, Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter? They're English.

I do like a soft Glaswegian accent - Peter Capaldi for one, but not the so well spoken that it sounds too Bearsden/Milngavie like Bill Paterson or whoever played Shona Spurtle on the High Life.

Oh Lord I just made the same mistake. Damn it!

My favourites are SOME of the English accents (so many different ones for such a small country!), some of the native African accents, Scottish can be pretty good, and Spanish.

I like British accents of all sorts. English, Scottish, Irish, they all sound pleasing to my ears.