The ‘Brummie’ accent is considered to be the ugliest accent in the British Isles, according to a new poll from YouGov. The UK and Ireland has a massive range of accents for such small islands – we have the same amount of dialects as the whole of North America- including Canada, Bermuda and Native American dialects.

The Brummie accent is the least attractive, followed by the Scouse (Liverpool) accent, then the Mancunian (Manchester). The top three most attractive accents are the Southern Irish, then Received Pronounciation (RP), then Welsh. Yorkshire comes in at fourth. RP is known as ‘BBC English’ and is the standard accent of the Southern areas of Britain.

Older people like West Country accents

Different age groups find different accents attractive. 63% of the over 60s find it attractive, compared to 22% of the 18-24 year olds. The youth just don’t like that West Country (South West England) voice.

Young people like Northern Irish accents

If you’re Northern Irish and into 18-24 year olds, you’re in luck. They’re the age group most likely to find your accent attractive (54%) compared to only 37% of over-60s.

We like our own accents

People in London don’t find the cockney accent too offensive, scoring it an attractiveness rating of -16, whereas the rest of the UK dislike it by -30. Scottish people also quite like Glaswegian accents, scoring it at net 7, but the British don’t like it, rating it -29.

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The baby that the whole world, and especially Great Britain was impatiently waiting for, has finally arrived. The royal baby, whose gender and name had been kept secret until the very last minute, is a boy born at 4:24 pm, on 22 July, 2013 and weighed 8lbs 6oz. The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to her first child in the £10,000-a-baby Lindo wing of St Mary’s Hospital, where her husband, Prince William was also born. The royal baby was delivered by the Queen’s gynecologists, Alan Farthing and Marcus Setchell and supposedly not even Kate or William knew in advance whether to expect a boy or a girl. Not that the gender of the baby really mattered. Thanks to the Succession to the Crown Act passed in April, Kate and William’s first-born is to inherit the throne one day. And concerning the proud parents, both of them have already proved that they are a family-focused couple during Kate’s pregnancy. They spent a lot of time with the Middletons, including their first Christmas as a married couple, hoping to have both sides of the family involved in the future heir’s life. 

impatiently – türelmetlenül
gender – nem 
to keep a secret – titkot tartani
to be delivered by – valaki által világra segítve lenni
gynecologist – nőgyógyász
supposedly – állítólag
to matter – számít
to inherit – örököl
to concern – illet
proud – büszke
to prove – bizonyít
pregnancy – terhesség
to involve – magával von, belemerül, bevon