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.
Midwesterners don’t have an accent!
(Insert ducking emoji here)
The Baltimore accent is the worst
Finally, the truth!!
Yes. The old Boston Brahmans speak very differently from the average guy on the street in a baseball hat.
Back in the mid-80s I was saddled with a new applications engineer and for our first trip we went to Atlanta to visit a customer. This engineer was born, breed and educated in Boston. He had the typical Boston accent with the most inflection that I’ve ever heard. In any case we wound up in McDonald’s with a typical 80s black young lady waiting on us. She had the deepest Atlanta accent I have ever heard, flavored with Ebonics. It was hysterical watching those to try to communicate. I finally told him to use a picture menu.
Beushi and Akroyd spent too much time in Joliet State Prison...
“It’s Valley-Girl for me. It’s worked its way across the country and exists even in women who don’t know it.”
Amen. ‘Upspeak’ comes out of the universities and even the guys do it now. Makes them sound like spineless soybois.
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Grrrr...."uptalkers". I can't stand them.
“ What qualifies as a Midwestern accent?”
The ‘news readers accent’ or the lack of an accent. Also known as General American.
Not an accent, but I really dislike what appears to be a modern trend of simply not finishing any sentence —
“We were going to the. And, he was all, like. Anyway, the whole day was ... whatever. And I kept the thinking, where is the, you know. Because, I have stuff to do, and.”
I know a lot of people who seem focused on speaking without ever using a real Noun or a real Verb.
“Any Occupied Blue State accent is annoying.”
Yaaa sure! Dont-cha know..
And.."What" "Right"
written by Olessa Stepanova...gee, I wonder what she sounds like?
Ted Kennedy’s accent was most annoying.
‘Pahk the cah in Hah-vahd yahd,’
DITTO! “Joisy” accent is most obnoxious.
Once had a sales rep from NJ work for me with the accent - and she was as obnoxious and offensive as her accent. I was GM for central Virginia for a Fortune 500 IT company and inherited her.
Shocked when she came back from a personal trip home and told our whole office that for the first time she found out why the rest of the country finds NJ people (in general) obnoxious. She found herself on a flight of ONLY NJ people from her area of NJ. And said as a whole it was the most obnoxious and offensive group she’d ever been with in her life.
“Now I know why those outside of NJ finds us obnoxious! WE ARE!”
True story.......
Ebonics
Bless their hearts.
I rank leftist propaganda as far more annoying…and dangerous.
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