Maybe we can blame the foreign exchange students in high school or the soap operas we watched that featured mysterious foreigners whose arrival shook up small towns like the fictional Port Charles. Whatever the cause, a lot of chicks love a foreign accent.
Well, the results of a worldwide poll asking 5,000 women who has the sexiest accent have yielded an answer: the Irish. For decades, French men held the title. (Tant pis, mes amis!) The Irish and their sexy (if indecipherable) lilts were followed by the accents of Italian, Scottish, French and Australian men, in that order. (Americans were in tenth place.)
If you like a man with a foreign accent, what do you think is the sexiest?
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AUSTRALIAN, hands down. I'm drooling just thinking about the last one I met.
1French... soo hot!!
2For me it is Italian, I don;t understand them, but they look so good.
3I like asian guys, so these polls somewhat bum me out, since asian accents are usually mocked and ridiculed in western cultures. Also, most asians who live in the west try to eradicate any trace of an asian accent when speaking english.
4Irish and Scottish (John Hannah's accent sends shivers down my spine!)
5FREEEEENCH
6English ... I love my boyfriend's.
7I like a lot of accents -- French, British, Armenian, Mexican, Asian, etc. I even like the domestic accents -- Southern, New York, Boston, etc. I find accents so charming (as long as I can make out what's being said. Otherwise, it can be confusing. LOL).
8i do not like irish or australian accents at all. lol
i like italian, english, and southern accents.
9British.
Specifically a Birmingham accent. I lovee my boyfriend's.
10Nacho Figueras.
11My ex spoke Russian and that was really hot sometimes..
12Id say Italian, Australian, or Boston..
B!
Bostonian? What ahh yah, retahded?
13Italian and Scotish for me.
14I like what I like Fuzz! I have personal memories where that accent was in fact, EXTREMELY hot.
15Ruh ruh.
16My personal favorite is British, which I'm surprised to see isn't among the top of the list. I'm also a sucker for Irish, Australian, and French.
17British
18My boyfriend had me at "hello" in his English accent.
19Scottish has the mystery and playfulness that I love. But my boyfriend's English accent is pretty great
20Scottish (Blame it on James McAvoy) is probably my favourite but I also like French, Russian, Croatian, Egyptian, Japanese, Kenyan, Canadian (Go Canada!), and some southern accents from the US.
21Oh, and Spanish!
22Irish and English
23I love the Spanish accent- can't tell you how many times I've swooned listening to a Spaniard *sigh*. I'd say Scottish comes in second, thanks to Ewan McGregor!
24Anything but southern! Some HOTT guy talked to me in a southern accent and I was immediately turned off. It makes a person sound 10 times less intelligent.
25definitely Australian!!!so sexy
26I love Mexican accents...my cousin's husband is from Mexico and I LOVE listening to him talk! Second is a British accent, though...it's gotta be one of the sexiest sounding accents out there!
27anything foreign. rawr.
28English
29British of course, but then again I have been a Jane Austen fan for a while now.
30I dated a Brazilian guy with a very sexy accent!!!
31Australian - absolutely, no doubt, hands down. Might have to do with a certain somebody ....
32Second: British, somehow British guys always make me laugh
IRISH!!
That's all I'm going to say..
.. okay and maybe British!
33Adorable!
British.
34Irish, British, Australian and French
35Spanish and Italian
36English, especially a northern english accent.
37Scottish and Irish.
38I wonder if guys like Australian accents too.. I think I would sound like a bit of a bogan to people who aren't used to an Aussie accent.. it's not very feminine!
39spanish and italian, beautiful, sexy accents.
40I don't think Southern accents make people sound less intelligent, Anonymous@5.56. I think they sound SO cute, especially because they're so unfamiliar to me. Eastern European accents, too.
41British and Boston for me
42Australian? But from WHERE in Australia. I live in Adelaide and the way I speak is completely different to someone who lives in Melbourne, or Sydney. (If it helps, the further north you go, the more of a drawl it is)
I love Scottish accents, eastern European (I can't tell them apart
) and Estuary English (Melt).
43I am sure that a lot of you base your love of accents out of what you have seen in movies or on tv. I personally dont base my love of an accents on a generalization, i prefer the yankee accent but the overall demeanor of the person either adds to the attraction factor or takes away from it imo.
44Irish is definitely my favorite (Republic of Ireland, that is - don't understand the Northern Irish as much)! Just listening to that lilting voice makes me swoon a bit. I swear I never dated a guy cause I thought his accent was hot...
Lol! English is a close second, but more
Northern English.
45BOSTON! I'm from the area but I don't have the accent too much. I love a thick Southie (South Boston, not South U.S.) accent.
46I know I may be in the minority here, but for me I absolutely go nuts when a Canadian guy asks me what I'm thinking "aboat"!
47Mmmmm...irish...and then southern too...but southern, not hick!! lol
48i love my bf's. he's from mauritius so asian but his language comes from french.
49ahh..accents... definitely French and Italian
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