Oh, aye. Yorkshire’s dulcet tones seem to have been named as one of the UK’s most relaxing accents – and we can see why. The Northern accent is one that many see as inviting, so we aren’t surprised that it features in the list.
We may be pretty biased about how great the Yorkshire accent is, but it’s the guys over at Spa Seekers, who, in collaboration with experts at the University of Sheffield, revealed the UK’s most relaxing accents. And, the Yorkshire accent just missed out on the top spot.
Coming in first place was the Welsh accent, with the Yorkshire accent and the Cornish accent coming in joint second place. Although we’d rather see us at the top on our own, we’ll take second. Coming in after us in third was the Northern Irish and received pronunciation.
The survey asked a group of 1,502 nationally representative people in oder to rank the top 15 accents in the UK in order of the most to least relaxing.
A senior lecturer in dialectology at the university, Dr Chris Montgomery, said that no accents “have inherent parts that makes them relaxing. It’s the connotations that they have that people learn over time.
“With the Welsh accent, people probably go to Wales, they might go on holiday. They come to Wales to the countryside, associate it with being in that place, going to the beach, perhaps being in Snowdonia or the other national parks.
“Essentially, what you’ve got is a number of different accent names, you’ve got a number of different scales and then people rate on those scales. And then we looked at what the rank ordering was”
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