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Well, I never really had much of a Yorkshire accent until I went to high school (September 1995), then by Christmas '95 I'd picked it up. I guess it's dependant on how surrounded by it you are. Some people pick accents etc. up really easily whereas some never do.

Not sure how long it takes to shake an accent off completely, but friends who have done that sometimes find themselves lapsing back into their natural accent in times of stress, so it neer really goes away.

blaugh I don't know if it's any accents in particular I like, or just specific people's accents and voices. But... Paul McGann's Scouse accent is gorgeous... and on a less Whovian note, Antonio Banderas... oh, Lord, one of those voices where you can't hear a word he says, because you're listening to the voice!... add that to the fact his English isn't so good, and he's quite unintelligible. But I don't care!

They're both much too old for me, but not like that matters, really.