What accent do you really hate? and which one you love?

Hello I am Australian I speak quite clearly and I sound nothing like Steve Irwin.
I don't use much Australian slang and I know a lot more about Americans than Americans know about Australia. To me an Australian accent sounds normal. We are also good at pronouncing words.

'Not keen on London accents have to say. Can't stand people who say "Miwk," instead of "Milk."'

Yeah, I'd have to agree most of the time. I find it most annoying on kids, like the ones on the Chronicles of Narnia, they really bugged me. Still, the accent sounds O.K. on some people. I liked it on Christian Bale in the Prestige. I don't know just how well he did it (Hey, I'm not an expert) but compared to the other, and real ones, I've heard it sounded pretty spot on accurate. I also think its a cool accent on the old hag types, makes me think of a Charles Dickens novel. Anyways, that's all for now.

I can't stand London accents, and I was very disappointed to find out that I have a VERY, very slight londoner accent. Mostly for the fact that I just use glottal stops on the letter T.

As for accents, well, I love American accents. All of them, even the southern accents that I hear so many people complain about. But, I especially love New Jersey accents!

“even the southern accents that I hear so many people complain about”

Do you think most English dislike the Southern accent? Or is it Englishmen doing to complaining?

"Do you think most English dislike the Southern accent? Or is it Englishmen doing to complaining?"

A little confused by your questions here. What do you mean by "english" in the first question? English as in English speakers/Natives of an English speaking country? or English as in British?

But, to try to answer your question;

In my experiences, I usually only hear complaints about it from Americans. It's rare that I hear British or other English speakers complain about southern American accents.

People who speak with a Southern American accents sound and bit dim and slightly thick.

As far as I can judge this seems to be the longest thread here on the site. Accents of all shapes and sizes make English sound spicy or what? Is there a logical framework for such a long-existing thread?
Quite intresting anyway.

>> People who speak with a Southern American accents sound and bit dim and slightly thick. <<

Are you English Adam? Do most people from England think that a Southern American accent makes someone sound dim and thick?

Oh, come on - we're not all too fat to get out of bed. Granted, too many U.S. Americans are fat - and it's not just the women, buddy! But I don't know anyone who's hugely obese. Or even really fat. Or who wants to be pitied, allowed to retire with disability income, and be given lifetime medical care for his or her "disease." A lot of us ARE pudgy, and certainly don't exercise enough, and you are quite correct that the U.S. American diet is awful. (I found this site while trolling for information on British speech, but I got distracted by this "self-pitying obese Americans" thing.)

Anyway, I like the way an Edinburgh acquaintance of mine pronounces "murder" - with lots of rolling r's.

Adam is English, and hates all things American. And Canadian. And Australian, and French. Despises the Irish and the Scottish,as well, for good measure. Probably detests Albanians, too.

In fact, his only real friend may be his right hand (which is a shame, because he's a lefty....)

Stick around, and you'll get to know him and love him. And skip past his posts, like the rest of us. He's just a troll.

I can't really say that there's any accents that I hate, though there are some that I've seen stereotyped on TV too often to take seriously (no offense, that's just the way it is for me): really broad Australian, Cockney, thick highland Scottish, Irish brogue, etc. I'm sure if I met a real speaker I would get over it quickly, but, you know...
As for accents I love, there's far too many: Charleston, Jamaican, Scottish (Edinburg to be precise), New York, Boston, etc. Of course, I'm sort of partial to my own Canadian accent (not mentioned much above, I've noticed!), but it sounds normal and boring to me, since I hear it every day. A question for all you British, Australian, New Zealander, South African, Irish, etc. people out there: can you distinguish Canadians from Americans by their accents? (And don't say anything about how Canadians are more polite or less annoying than Americans because I really don't think it's true.)

Yes, the oat/out thing generally distinguishes Canadians from Americans and Canadian sounds more Irish.

Probably depends on the American or Canadian. A lot of us sound identical to each other; other's don't. I've met Canadians that I couldn't tell until they told me; their accents were no different from mine.

Most stereotypes about Australia are wrong, I should know because I live in Australia. Americans that have never been to Australia don't know what a true Aussie accent sounds like. Like in the USA there are a lot of different Aussie accents. Australia is a well developed country much like the US. Americans are quite terrible at trying to copy our accents.
There is a lot of freedom in Australia and it is the most safest country in the world. We do not use boomerangs, thats what Aboriginals use.
We do not kick people using big boots and kangeroo's are not that common in Australia.

Do all Canadians say aboot instead of about and is Canada always snowing?