So, like, if American accents are so unsexy...

I've got to agree with Nicole that Scottish accents are very sexy.

I only watch telly about once a month, if that, and I find the American accents on American telly shows to be very strong. I think when I used to watch telly everyday I was not so conscious of it.

The only accent I don't particularly like is the Texan accent. Everyone with that accent sounds like a total moron. I suspect that I'd like the Glasgewian accent if I knew what the fuck they were saying ...

The only exception is, like, YOU KNOW, Encino.. or Tarzana! Fer sure! (Sorry, it's all rooted in my long-time crush of Moon Unit Zappa.. who I MISSED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOOKSTORE A FEW DAYS AGO!) sigh.

Now, which nationalities has the sexiest accent? New Zealand and Austrialia, by far.

And I disagree... New York and Southern women can sound pretty damn sexy if they don't take the accent too far.

Anyway, I used to have a Southern accent before I decided anything was possible and that I believed that whatever you believe in exists for you. I'm sad!

I wish I still had my natural accent and not this stupid one that only has rules for syntax. Then I'd be comfortable and not lisp and stumble when I think. Then maybe I'd be confident enough to know what I believe in.

I like British accents, especially Scottish. Hollywood accents are also interesting. Think of Gone With the Wind. I don't really dislike any accents.

Accents I dislike: Brummie, Geordie (always sounds like they're chewing on something and choking), posh boys.

I have a variety of accents - I can purr smoothly from rough-diamond Cocknee (Yeah, mate, safe.) to gentle, bumbling Oxbridge (errrrrrrrr te'bley s'rreh) in little under five seconds.

Birmingham accents - so unsexy I'm amazed Birmingham hasn't become extinct.

Nasally whiney American accents - unsexy.

Southern American accents - sexy.

Effete middle class Dublin accents - incredibly sexy, and I should know.

Anyone who has received any amount of vocal coaching are going to default to a neutral accent when singing English. Vowel-wise, I think that the American/Candian accents are closest to sung English than the UK/Australian/NZ accents, thus making many singers sound like they're trying to sound "American" when they're really just trying to sing vowels and consonants that carry well when sung.

Yeah, but it's the right vowel. (wudge wudge nink nink)

Goeff: the post cut off the last bit: nz - sexiest accent for sheep.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......

It's ratet Aaaarrrrrrrr.

I adore Scottish and Indian accents. I'm getting used to Southern and Asian. I don't like Spanish much.

I don't have the Scandinavian Hosebag accent which most Minnesotans (including my whole family) have. Basically, if you want Fargo outtakes, ring my mother. She accuses me of over-enunciating - and has done for years - but I've never spoken like that. If you don't have the Minnewegian accent, you have the closest thing to American Received Pronunciation there is (journalists go there and spend a fortune on speech lessons to achieve it).

Ten years living in London has given me British usage and softer vowel sounds. Some people in Minnesota think I am 'Briddush?' when I go back to visit. Nobody in NYC is stupid enough to make that mistake.

Accents I don't like: Uneducated Minnesotan, Southern Redneck, NY Bridge and Tunnel Person. And, like, the Valley, y'know? Also not terribly keen on heavy-duty German or Israeli. And nuffink is more irritatin' than Birds Of A feather-type Cockney.

Accents I like: French, intelligent or 'scatty' (ie. Jane Birkin) posh English, Yorkshire Northern, Mancunian (when you could no longer hear Morrissey's Manchester vowel sounds sung, that meant the well was dry), and ALL Scottish accents (getting my old Glaswegian flatmate Stevie to say 'fellatio' and 'turd burglar' is guaranteed to leave me in hysterics).

What Dan said might be true, that sung English vowels sound very much like spoken American. This sort of makes sense seeing as in singing more time is spent on vowels than consonants and the American drawl is like that too.

Singing is really different to speaking. I recall hearing that people who speak with a stutter do not sing with one.

What sort of accent do you have Nude Spock?

Which one?

Connery = Edinburgh Scottish Lazenby = Australian Moore = RADA Southern English Dalton = RADA (suppressing North Wales) English Brosnan = Irish.

I like Dutch, me. It sounds like eating.

This is just insane. Say 'patatath fritath' a few times and you will be cured.

I love James Bond. I want to be James Bond.