This, frankly, is an outrage.

The Gloucestershire accent has come last but one in a list of the UK's sexiest dialects.

Only the Birmingham twang is less likely to send people wild with desire than our own proud take on the English language, according to a poll by Big 7 travel .

'Who the hell are Big 7 travel and how do they justify this kind of slight on our beautiful tongue?', we hear you ask, and honestly, we're with you.

They reckon they got these hugely questionable results from a 'sample survey' of their '1.5million social audience'.

This Country's Kurtan and Kerry Mucklowe (Charlie and Daisy May Cooper) - whose accent is apparently 'not sexy'

Clearly not many people in that audience have spent time listening to the glorious thing that is born-and-bred-and-proud-of-it Gloucestershire folk telling their stories.

Nor have they read the results of this poll , from less than two years ago, which voted the Gloucester accent the FOURTH SEXIEST in the UK. That's more like it.

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Is the Gloucestershire accent sexy?


The other results in this highly questionable piece of research are:

Bottom 10:

50th. Brummie

49th. Gloucestershire

48th. Hull City

47th. West Country

46th. Wolverhampton

45th. Bristolian

44th. Cornish

43rd. Cheshire

42nd. Salford

41st. Sheffield

Top 10:

10th. Cockney

9th. Yorkshire

8th. South Welsh Valleys

7th. Geordie

6th. Scouse

5th. Mancunian

4th. Queen’s English

3rd. Glaswegian

2nd. Northern Irish

1st. Essex