The French accent is considered one of the most sensual. After all, the language is known as the language of love – so is it any wonder we find it so sexy? Interestingly, the appeal in the French accent isn't limited to the language.
The year 2020 saw the British accent ranked No. 1 on the list. It was crowned the sexiest accent in the world with 25 percent of the total votes. The accent proved particularly popular in countries like China, Sweden, India and the USA.
The results revealed that women and men find different accents attractive, and the only common accents on both lists were Australian and Southern. While men desired Israeli and Colombian accents the most, this was not mirrored amongst the women who were surveyed, who ultimately preferred British and Spanish accents.
A new study that surveyed 2,000 members of the UK public has revealed that Scottish is the nation's favourite accent, beating out Queen's English, Geordie, and more.
According to a Big 7 Travel survey, the accent found among New Jerseyans has the least sex appeal compared to the state accents. "Poor New Jersey dropped down one place from 2019 to end up in the last spot this year, making it the least sexy accent in America.
British, Australian, and Irish accents are the top 3 foreign accents people find to be most attractive. When it comes to attraction, 80% of people feel that accents make someone more attractive, with 77% saying someone's accent was what attracted them to a person.
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.
The year 2020 saw the British accent ranked No. 1 on the list. It was crowned the sexiest accent in the world with 25 percent of the total votes. The accent proved particularly popular in countries like China, Sweden, India and the USA.
Australian English often contains higher levels of nasal resonance to oral resonance. Resonance refers to voice acoustics and is determined by where the bulk of sound vibration from the voice is reinforced in the your face.
Australian English arose from a dialectal melting pot created by the intermingling of early settlers who were from a variety of dialectal regions of Great Britain and Ireland, though its most significant influences were the dialects of Southeast England.
There are different variations of the Australian accent. Dr Gawne describes one variation as the "broad accent... [which is] your good, Aussie, ocker accents." Another variation is the "general accent, which is actually the majority of Australian English speakers."
#1 The British accent
The accent proved particularly popular in countries like China, Sweden, India and the USA. Additionally, the survey showed that Asian countries like South Korea, Japan and Malaysia were also allured by English and other UK accents.
Spoken English shows great variation across regions where it is the predominant language. For example, the United Kingdom has the largest variation of accents of any country in the world, and therefore no single "British accent" exists.
She stands out, even in the thickest of crowds.
Men are attracted to ladies with accents because of their ability to stand out in a room full of other women. When you're trying to meet as many people as possible, it's pretty common for some of these people to slip through the cracks of your memory.
According to a poll conducted by YouGov, Americans believe Boston is the one place in the United States with the strongest regional accent, with the Southern Coast trailing behind in second place.
Option 1: the American accent
The most popular English accent of them all. Spread around the world by American cinema, music, television and more than 350 million North Americans (including Canadians, eh), this is the easiest accent for most people to understand, whether native speakers or non-native speakers.
The New Zealand accent has been rated the sexiest in the world, and that's sweet as bro! With almost 7000 languages in the world and even more varieties of accents and tones, the Kiwi accent came out on top in an extensive poll conducted by Big 7 Travel in April.
Of the 2,000 respondents, nearly a quarter (23%) found the Yorkshire brogue the friendliest.
Such is the inescapable truth, according to science. Boston's accent is the most annoying in the U.S., say researchers at Preply, which is a company, and which surveyed 1,755 people about their thoughts on all manner of accents hailing from all over the world.
Geordie. People from Newcastle speak a dialect called Geordie, which is one of the strongest and most distinctive accents in England.
Accents and stereotypes
People often use an accent to group speakers into categories based on a general set of attitudes and behaviors that they think represent those speakers (and more broadly, the countries they come from). In other words, people think certain accents sound attractive because of stereotypes.
The most and least attractive British regional accents have been ranked in a new survey. After quizzing 2,000 Brits, the Scottish accent was found to be the most attractive, with 15 per cent voting for it.