Irish, Geordie (natives of NE England) and some southern Americans, not California
That reminds me of the Harry Enfield character, Julio Geordio.
I too like the Dublin accent. I also love to listen to folk from the Hebrides....the English they speak has a very pleasing lilt to it.
As for the Glaswegian accent....I thought my wife would struggle understanding it during her years there. However apart from the odd slang word she didn't encounter many problems.
As for the Glaswegian accent....I thought my wife would struggle understanding it during her years there. However apart from the odd slang word she didn't encounter many problems.
I think a Glaswegian accent must be easier for non-native English speakers to understand than it is for native English speakers!
Accents are fascinating aren't they? Perhaps more so in the UK than anywhere else given that accents can be so markedly different even 35 miles apart. Think Liverpool and Manchester for example.
And in Liverpool itself the difference in accents between north Liverpool, where the 2 football clubs are, and south Liverpool where the Beatles were all from, is significant.
Curious: why the name Geordie?
It's a nickname for people of Newcastle, or as I call that city, Newscastle.......I have no idea why I call them that
I once had a girlfriend in Liverpool and lovely though she was, she wasn't keen on the niceties of refined language, shall we say.
