Accents

The UK Daily Mail asked 5,000 women to rank the sexiest accents, and the Irish won! I definitely agree, but I didn't know so many other women agreed with me. Here are the top 10, as reported:
1. Irish
2. Italian
3. Scottish
4. French
5. Australian
6. English
7. Swedish
8. Spanish
9. Welsh
10. American

I would put them in this order, though:
1. Irish
2. English
3. Spanish
4. Australian
5. French
6. Italian
(I can't think of 4 more to put on the list.)

The study also found that 60% of women had allowed themselves to be seduced by a man just because of his accent! Interesting. Where are these women meeting these guys with accents, anyway? Actually, come to think of it, I find foreign guys right here at home, or rather, they find me. I seem to appeal to a disproportionate percentage of Central/Eastern European and African guys, but I can't say that they have ever seduced me. I guess their accents aren't sexy enough.

Speaking of accents, I just read that newborn babies cry in their native tongues! Their melodies reflect the patterns in that language, and they think it's because babies are trying to imitate the mother in order to foster bonding. The researchers conjecture that the development of spoken language is rooted in melody, too, and that music and language might have co-evolved and share a primal form of communication system. That's pretty cool. I wonder if that explains the inherent appeal of musicians, too...