Top ten most trusted accents in the UK!

[nq:1]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!' #2 London accent - 'Cor blimey, bloomin' 'eck!' ... #9 Northern Irish :-D #10 Scouse (Liverpool) - 'Oo ee wacka!'. On England's GMTV this morning, lol![/nq]
And what were numbers 3 to 8? Am I to be trusted, speaking more or less RP?
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Peter.

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[nq:1]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!'[/nq]
The Yorkshire attribution for this has always intrigued me.

The only person I've known who used the phrase unselfconsciously and in its entirety that is, not just "ee" or "ba gum" on their own was my grandmother. She was born in Manchester in the late 1890s; emigrated to Canada in 1928; and didn't return to England even for a visit until the late

Subject: Top ten most trusted accents in the UK!
[nq:1]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!' #2 London accent - 'Cor blimey, bloomin' 'eck!' ... #9 Northern Irish :-D #10 Scouse (Liverpool) - 'Oo ee wacka!'. On England's GMTV this morning, lol![/nq]
LOL indeed.
Was this a phone poll?
In my experience (the speakers of) which accents are most trusted depends on which region you are in.

[nq:2]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!' #2 London accent - ... - 'Oo ee wacka!'. On England's GMTV this morning, lol![/nq]
[nq:1]And what were numbers 3 to 8?~[/nq]
Can't remember - they may be on the GMTV site.
[nq:1]Am I to be trusted, speaking more or less RP?[/nq]
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RP is fine! :-)
Nick

[nq:1]On 30 Oct 2008, Nick wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!'[/nq]
[nq:1]The Yorkshire attribution for this has always intrigued me. The only person I've known who used the phrase unselfconsciously and ... "Yorkshire" label for "ee ba gum" seems a bit suspect to me it was at least "Yorks & Lancs".[/nq]
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'Appen you're right, Harvey.
I thought I could hear Ena S

[nq:1]Subject: Top ten most trusted accents in the UK![/nq]
[nq:2]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!' #2 London accent - ... - 'Oo ee wacka!'. On England's GMTV this morning, lol![/nq]
[nq:1]LOL indeed. Was this a phone poll?[/nq]
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Don't know
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[nq:1]In my experience (the speakers of) which accents are most trusted dependson which region you are in.[/nq]
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Definitely!

[nq:2]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!' #2 London accent - ... - 'Oo ee wacka!'. On England's GMTV this morning, lol![/nq]
[nq:1]And what were numbers 3 to 8? Am I to be trusted, speaking more or less RP?[/nq]
No.
DC

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[nq:1]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!' #2 London accent - 'Cor blimey, bloomin' 'eck!' ... #9 Northern Irish :-D #10 Scouse (Liverpool) - 'Oo ee wacka!'. On England's GMTV this morning, lol! Nick[/nq]
I used to find any Scottish accent trustworthy. But now that so many of our politicians hail from there...
Peter

[nq:2]#1 Yorkshire - 'Ee ba gum!' #2 London accent - ... - 'Oo ee wacka!'. On England's GMTV this morning, lol![/nq]
[nq:1]And what were numbers 3 to 8? Am I to be trusted, speaking more or less RP?[/nq]
Apparently the list, printed in reverse order of trustworthiness, runs
10 - Scouse
9 - Northern Irish
8 - West Midlands
7 - Lancashire
6 - Geordie
5 - Welsh
4 -