British confirmed as world's sexiest accent

‘British’ leaves ‘American’ a distant second in survey as ‘most dateable accent’ but are we talking Sir Roger Moore, Sean Bean, Catherine Zeta-Jones or Rory McIlroy?

Finally, it’s official. The prestigious, definitive Time Out Global Dating Survey 2015 has confirmed what the world already knew. Brits have the world’s sexiest accents.

Time Out surveyed 11,000 people in 12 cities around the world, asking respondents to name the “most dateable accent other than their own”.

“British” received 27% of the vote, crushing its nearest rival, “American”, which received a mere 8.7%. It is fantastic, joyous, uplifting news for everyone. Particularly if you happen to be a Brit living abroad. Like this reporter.

The Time Out survey found that Paris, ultimately, was the best city for dating, although the French accent was only fifth on the sexiest accents list.

Irish – “top of the morning” etc – came in third, while Australian – “crikey” – was fourth. Italian – I’m struggling to immediately think of a suitably xenophobic phrase – was sixth, and Spanish – “Nadal!” – seventh.

The Time Out survey was clearly conducted with the utmost rigour. And clearly, as someone with a British accent, I am loth to question the results too deeply. Not when I’m as dateable as this.

But there is one glaring problem.

What British accent does Time Out mean? Is it the upper class English-British of the Queen, Sir Roger Moore and Harry Potter?

Is it the earthy, northern-English-British of Sean Bean and the rest of Game of Thrones’s Stark family?

Or is it the rolling, Welsh-valleys-British of Tom Jones and Catherine Zeta-Jones and presumably a lot of other people called Jones?

Perhaps it’s the Northern-Irish British of Liam Neeson, George Best and Rory McIlroy?

One accent we can rule out is the Scottish-British of Sean Connery and Andy Murray. Confusingly, “Scottish” counted separately in the Time Out poll, coming in eighth.

The same issue exists for the other top accents, of course, but with Britain proving to be the most dateable accent by such a large distance one feels Time Out could have broken it down a bit. Is it the Lancashire accent that gets people hot under the collar? Do daters lust for aBrummie accent? Or Cornish? We will never know.

Other striking data from the survey: New Yorkers are apparently “the least happy daters”. Some 45% describe themselves as “sad to be single”.

Globally, 41% of daters said they decided after “two to three minutes” of a first date whether to go on a second date.

According to the survey, while 53% of dates end in a kiss, 20% end in nudity.

Especially when you have a British accent. Whatever that means.

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