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Pinoy accent among sexiest

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The Filipino accent gets a bad rep, especially among Filipinos, but if travel website Big 7 were to be believed many actually find it sexy—the sexiest one in Asia, it adds.

Pinoy accent among sexiest

This is according to the ranking released by Big 7 on Monday, which ranks Filipino the 21st sexiest accent in the world out of 50 based on a survey it conducted among its readers, which it says is at around 1.5 million people.

The results, which are not scientific, do not include a breakdown of votes but it describes the Filipino accent as “gentle and soft” and “simply lovely.”

Top on the list is the “outrageously charming” Kiwi accent from New Zealand. Also in the top 10 are South African, Irish, Italian, Australian, Scottish, French, Spanish, South USA, and Brazilian Portuguese. At the bottom of the list is Croatian.

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The phrase “you’re road” went viral in April last year after netizens made fun of a Filipino woman from the reality show 90 Day Fiance:

Before the 90 Days said it when she meant to say “you’re rude.” 

A journalist was also under fire in September last year when she made fun of Duterte’s Visayan accent.

On the lighter side, it was also the subject of the viral Dexter’s Laboratory meme that has the cartoon character saying words

like “French fries” in a Filipino accent. It’s “prench pries”—which language and pronunciation experts say cannot really be called Filipino as many other Filipinos can properly pronounce the letter F.

Of course, people are forgetting that there is no one accent in the Philippines. While the typical Filipino accent is characterized by the switching of the letters “f” and “p” and “v” and “b,” people speak differently depending on where they are from.

They can sound like Duterte or boxer-senator Manny Pacquiao, who people say have thicker accents, but also like Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach who has a more neutral tone.

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