Is there an accent that people in your country speak that you dislike?

Some what..
I don't really like the thick South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia accent. I don't really like the Kentucky and the Texas accent, but I don't really dislike these accents but am trying to so I have a llllooonnngggggggggggggg answer for this survey.

Is Ebonics an accent?...... because it annoys me...It sounds like plain bad grammar to me.

No accent grates on me more than a Boston accent

I like all accents in my country. It lets me know what area a person is from, and it makes them more of an individual. It's fun listening to someone with a thick southern accent or New York accent.

There aren't any accents in Hong Kong that I dislike. There's plenty of other ones that I find irritating especially women who speak with Sydney accents. I know Americans sound very nasal, but we're nothing compared with Sydney females! There's also a really annoying Singaporean accent.

I dislike most of the stronger Massachusetts accents.

I said no, but then Pomeranian reminded me...

Many.... But I don't want to offend. It's weird how you never consider yourself to have an accent until someone that has an accent says something about yours.

A really slow Southern drawl can get on my nerves, but mostly I'm fascinated by different accents. There are several that I make fun of, but I wouldn't really say I don't like them. I just find them amusing. I'm sure some people think I talk funny, too.

I've found that it's not so much the accent as the person speaking. If I like a person, I'll find their accent charming, no matter what it sounds like.

I know it's not fair, or nice to say, but I dislike thick French-Canadian accents. Probably some sort of subconscious link I have with people trying to break up my country.

Sometimes people from up north talk so fast I can't understand them.When my daughter talks to my stepbrother's children in New Jersey, I often have to translate on the phone for them.It's crazy!

I hate the accent that expat Australians speak when they've been in the US for too long, and they're trying to compensate for getting a slight American twang. Like Paul Hogan's accent. It's not really one that people in my country speak, but one that people from my country speak.

If I write expat with a hyphen I get this: ex-pat !!!

I suspect that I'd do better in group conversations in the south - the slowness is probably better suited to the way I process verbal information.

Except that in my experience... group conversations in the south go a little something like this:

Redneck #1: Ah shot a deeeeer the other day.

Redneck #2: Didja?

Redneck #1: Yep.

The Brooklyn, NY accent bugs me. It sounds so proletariat. Parts of Rhode Island (my home state) have adopted something like it.

The word proletariat bugs me. It sounds so bourgeois.

[I'm just teasing, drdt]

Boston, New York, New Hampshire, Chicago, certain other parts of the north-midwest US, certain parts of the South.

Minnesooooooooooooota

Midlands and Mid-North (Birmingham, Manchester, etc) accents are really grating. I also dislike London "Estuary" English, especially the south ("sarf") London variants.

they - LOL

Like ohmigawd, The San Fernado Valley accent.. like y'know!

I've always disliked the extreme southern accent. It doesn't help now that I'm surrounded by it and only deepens my longing for my precious north country.

Newfounlander's have one I beleave.

Mexican.
Twist: I totally agree with you about the ebonics thing. It's a poor excuse for lack of education.
(I'm probably gonna get slapped for this comment)

Coming from England, i have to agree with msgman. the Birmingham (Brummie) accent sounds awful, although I think that the Liverpool (scouse) accent is far worse than the Manchester (Daphne from Frasier) accent. Especially when they say di-do-do-dat-doe-don't-di-do-la (yes that is a genuine scouse saying, not a song that was cut from the Sound of Music)

msgman, icurok: Have you seen the movie Little Voice? What part of England is the mother's accent from?

they: mmmm tough one. I haven't seen it (I will one of these days) but I remember seeing the trailer, and I've asked around. I think her mother (played by the EXCELLENT Brenda Blethyn) has a broad Yorkshire accent in it, which is incidentally where my SO is from (although she doesn't sound quite that bad).

Californian. Many midwestern accents, in particular Ohioan. Floridian. Cajun, most of the time. White trash.

I like them all, and I can even speak "suhthuhn".

Brooklyn