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WOULD you Adam and Eve it? The Cockney accent has been voted the most annoying in Britain.
The distinctive twang of Londoners such as EastEnder Danny Dyer and hardnut actor Ray Winstone was voted the hardest to listen to in a test.
But the sing-song tones of Geordies such as Ant and Dec were rated the canniest.
Researchers asked people to listen to UK accents and say how long it took for the voices to irritate them. People toler
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Haven, one lucky reader will win an Atlas Mirage holiday home, worth more than £44,000, in one of its 38 fabulously located British holiday parks. And if that wasn’t enough, we will also cover the winner’s site fees ated Cockneys for just 58 seconds before shouting: “Leave it ahhht!”
The Queen’s English, heard from plummy stars such as Hugh Grant, was the second most tiresome, with listeners becoming jolly well fed up after one and a half minutes.
Close behind was the Essex accent, followed by speakers from south Wales, Birmingham, Liverpool, Yorkshire and
Glasgow. The voices of
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You will need three different codewords, which we’ll be printing until Wednesday, February 10, to enter the prize draw.
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Collect three different codewords until Wednesday, February 10, 2021. Today’s codeword is Once collected, write them on the entry form, on the left. Once filled in, send the entry form to Mirror Competition, c/o SKU Logistics, Blacknest Road, Blacknest, Hants, GU34 4PX.
The closing date for all entries is 4pm, Friday, February 19, 2021.
Newcastle folk and English people with no obvious regional identity were judged the easiest on the ear – scoring well over four minutes in the survey.
Skills training company The Knowledge Academy surveyed the reactions of 2,357 adults to 10 British accents.
Language specialist Yelena McCafferty said of the findings: “Our reaction to accents says more about us than about the accents themselves.
“People are attracted to accents which sound familiar and it’s only natural that we tend to trust and like somebody who speaks like us.”