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Does people in the UK think American accents are sexy?

A lot of Americans (including myself) find British accents to be rather sexy. Does the citizens of Britian find American accent to be sexy? and I am talking about proper talking no want to be gangster talk o anything in that nature.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    North eastern US accents, probably yes by many Brits.

    However southern US accents sound as though the person is stupid. Californian accents sound gay (even when the Californian isn't gay, + of course, this could be a + factor for gay Brits), New York city & New Jersey accents sound brash, impatient and generally give the impression of an unpleasant person.

    As for you, or any other Americans, finding "British accents to be rather sexy", I have to ask, which British accents?

    I appreciate you might find upper class southern British accents, or West of England rural, or East Anglian rural, or many Scottish accents (except Glaswegian?), sexy in their very different ways, but do you find the Birmingham ('Brummy'), Liverpool ('Scouse'), or Newcastle ('Geordie') accents sexy? Or can you understand these accents at all?

    Source(s): A Brit, now having to log in to Y!A Canada (like many of my American friends have been doing for some time) because now Y!A UK has now also changed to the totally useless and unworkable new format.
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    that all depends on the Personality of the American

    during WW2 Most Americans were so Loud you could Hear them all across London

    the Nicest Americans in London During WW2 were African Americans Clean well spoken and Polite

    I don't like most US accents to Loud and Not English

    I love The Closer But have Trouble Understanding her Nothing Sexy about a Language that claims to be English that the English cant understand

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    I d like to call the different accents of a particular language a modular app rather than sexy.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Generally Americans seem to like foreign accents as long as they are toned down and made more American (Hugh Grant in those cheesy movies, or Russell Crowe). When they encounter real accents they tend to complain that they can't understand. They're not the only ones - English people complain about not understanding Scots and Irish accents all the time.

    Brit here, and I don't really have any opinion on American accents. They're just very neutral and uninteresting. Someone speaking English with a French, Spanish or Eastern European accent is much more appealing to me.

    I don't mind American accents. What I do hate is the style in which so many Americans speak. They like totally pad out everything they say with like you know words that seriously like don't add anything to what they're like trying to say and I swear like it totally sounds like they're seriously in love with the sound of their own freakin' voice and like have to stretch everything out as long as possible because it totally lets them keep on talking like forever.

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  • JOHN G
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The UK gets so much American TV that US accents are nothing special , we grow up hearing them, so ... no

  • 8 years ago

    Not really. I find the southern accent (louisiana especially) very annoying!

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