Interesting Facts

According to the executive communications consultancy, the Aziz Corporation, you are better off having a "foreign" accent, than a regional British one. (According to UK business leaders, strong regional and "working class" accents can hold people back in their careers, as can "posh" accents. The best accent for a Brit to have is a "neutral one". The worst English accents to have were Scouse, Brummie, Cockney, Geordie and the West Country. If you want to get ahead in business and don't speak the Queen's English, it is better to sound as if you are from America, Europe, India or indeed Scotland than from any English region. Khalid Aziz, The Aziz Corporation ) 

According to a survey by RoxyPalace.com, British women find an Irish accent is the sexiest accent in the UK. (The success of the Irish accent (which also beat the French accent in a worldwide poll in 2009) is thought to be down to celebrity status of singer Danny O' Donoghue and One Direction's Niall Horan. And it probably doesn't hurt that Colin Farrell and James Nesbitt are Irish too, and Essex probably ended up at the bottom because of TOWIE.  (If you're not sure what TOWIE is, consider yourself lucky). The results of the British poll were:- 1. Irish - 28 per cent 2. West Country - 19 per cent 3. Geordie - 17 per cent 4. Mancunian - 11 per cent 5. Glaswegian - 8 per cent 6. Scouse - 6 per cent 7. Yorkshire - 5 per cent 8. Welsh - 3 per cent 9. Brummie - 2 per cent 10. Essex - 1 per cent ) !Note:- Irish = Ireland Geordie = Newcastle Mancunian = Manchester Glaswegian = Glasgow Scouse = Liverpool Welsh = Wales Brummie = Birmingham