Most irritating accent

Easy Livin wrote: It's interesting that the creator of the poll thinks that only England has regional accents, the rest are all national (except Texans who for some reason are differentiated from the "Americans" in the other 49 States.)

For God's sake! As an Italian I have to strongly disagree!!!
Northern italian accents (in which I belong) differ enormously from central or southern ones...and even in each of those groups you can immediately tell a Piedmontese speaker from another from Milan, Venice, Genoa or Bologna...same goes for the centre (Florence and Rome accents are a great deal different) and the south (Naples and Palermo ones for instance).

As a piedmontese dialect connoisseur, I can even tell from which area surrounding Turin another one comes from...
And that's true for the majority of Italians!

As a matter of fact, the accents you maybe refer to as "Italian" belong in the southern group, since the majority of Italian immigrates abroad trace their origins in Southern Italy (mailny Campania and Sicily).

However, when speaking (or singing, since this is the focus of the post) in english, our accent can surely be heavy and annoying, but I think nothing can beat French and Japanese when they're at it!
Man, they really make my nerves creep, and I hardly can understand a word when they're talking (or singing)!!!

Most of you won't get it but for Spanish speakers, the one from Spain is unlisteneable, horrible IMO.

I'm American, so I've never heard most of these. Texan is the most annoying I've heard, especially because it is often paired with bad grammar.

People from Indiana (and Michigan I think too) are known for having very little to no accent, and I think that holds true for me. I'm not really bothered by many accents, but if it's to the point where you can't understand the person, then that's tough. The movie "The Departed" used a Boston accent excellently...and heavily, and it actually makes the movie better.

I agree with those who think that the "american" accent is ridiculous.
I can think of about 15 different american accents.

there really isn't anything worse than a scouse accent; it's a perpetual whine like they have a permanent gripe against the world...

Why are people 'irritated" by accents, anyway? Just stay home if you can't handle the fact that people speak differently in different areas.

I love it when swedes try to speak english.

eastern european accent, i'm sick of it. i live with it.

Edited by andu - October 16 2006 at 13:11

The American deep south accent is the most annoying thing in the hostory of annoying things, closely followed by cockney.

Who the hell voted Brummie.