Posted on 03/03/2022 6:02:54 AM PST by billorites
The Boston accent was ranked as the most annoying in the U.S., according to a new survey, but it also ranked among the top 10 smartest and sexiest.
Preply, a Brookline-based online language learning platform, took a survey of more than 1,700 people across the country on the most loved and hated accents. The Boston accent came out on top as the most annoying, followed by the Midwestern accent.
When it comes to the sexiest accent, Boston ranked number six out of 10. The top spot was taken by the southern accent.
Boston also came in sixth place for the most trustworthy accent. The Midwestern accent took the number one spot for trustworthiness.
Bostonians scored higher for sounding smart, coming in at number four, with the New York accent taking the top spot.
Jersey accent is my most annoying.
Chicago accent far more annoying to me. Whiney and nasaly. think Hillary Clinton or Dan Akroyd in the Blues Brothers.
It’s Valley-Girl for me. It’s worked its way across the country and exists even in women who don’t know it.
This is only because Ted Kennedy’s fat face automatically pops into people’s heads when they hear one.
What qualifies as a Midwestern accent? Southern is also much too vague
Yep, ending sentences with the up tone
I’ll go along with that. Along with the most unfriendly residents. I’ve lived all over the country. Wilmington, DE and Boston are tied for most unfriendly. Anywhere south of Richmond, VA is consistently more friendly by a ton.
I met a guy in college from Boston and initially I thought he was a foreign exchange student.
Speaking of which, the survey only asked about White accents. Are the non-White accents not "American" enough to be considered?
What everrrrrrrr!.......................
The smart people in Boston generally don’t have an Boston accent; even more so the smart people in NY generally don’t have a NY accent.
Yup. Especially when combined with vocal fry.
I hope they did not lump all four Texas accents— North, South, East and West— together and define them all as “southern”
I met a guy in college from Boston and initially I thought he was a foreign exchange student.
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And you were correct! ;-)
Baston.
Sorry, guys. Just be grateful Freerepublic is in writing, haha.
I have a pretty deep Boston accent.
Joisey is indeed annoying.
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