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What's your favorite accent spoken in English? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Obviously lots of accents/dialects based on location like American southern, Australian or Jamaican. Anything like that is an acceptable answer. As well as non native english speaker's spoken english sound, like a Latino/a person.

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[–] redhilsha@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Colonisation has somewhat preserved elements aspects of English in our vocabulary in South Asia.

For example I almost never hear anyone on the anglosphere say "ta ta" but in Bangladesh it is a semi-regular part of our "goodbye speech"

Another such phrase is "Oil your own machine", I never hear it in the anglosphere.