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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ted Thornhill

The accents in the US and Europe that Americans find the sexiest - and the most off-putting

Accents play a big part in the dating game, according to the study - (Getty Images)

Americans from Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Arkansas have a head start in the dating game — because their accent, Southern American English, is the sexiest in the U.S., according to a new poll.

It was voted America’s most attractive accent in a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults carried out by OnePoll for language learning platform Babbel, with Louisiana/Cajun English second and New York City English third.

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