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"I chose a photo of Irishman Gabriel Byrne over his countryman Colin Farrell because I find him to be sexier&amp;amp;#8212;albeit haggard, here. Also: I&amp;amp;#8217;m dedicating this pic to Sarah of Vitamin G, who loves watching Little Women when she&amp;amp;#8217;s sick. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t believe it. 5,000 women worldwide voted the Irish brogue as the sexiest accent, reports the U.K.&amp;amp;#8217;s Daily Mail. Here&amp;amp;#8217;s how the results broke down, after the jump:1. Irish 2. Italian 3. Scottish 4. French 5. Australian 6. English 7. Swedish 8. Spanish 9. Welsh 10. American HA!! Funny that they differentiated between Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, but lumped all of the U.S.A. into just &amp;amp;#8220;American.&amp;amp;#8221; Which American? Staten Island? Dallas? Chicago? (The Hollywood accent, btw, is the one you hear on TV&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;amp;#8217;s no accent! And I have it. Haha.) My favorites are Australian and British&amp;amp;#8212;although I&amp;#x27;m not worldly enough to recognize the myriad varieties. I&amp;amp;#8217;m surprised Scottish is 3rd. I guess everyone loves Gerard Butler. His cheeks and mouth are strange to me. But as I&amp;amp;#8217;ve said before, my mom was a speech teacher and I pay too much attention to the way people form their words. I&amp;amp;#8217;m confused, though. If the study surveyed women from all over the globe, were they voting on how an Irish accent sounds when speaking Russian? Or Greek? That would be interesting to hear! I guess American came in last because a lot of us aren&amp;amp;#8217;t exactly quadrilingual, and when we attempt to speak other people&amp;amp;#8217;s native tongues, we no sound no good. We offend their heads&amp;amp;#8217; body parts for listen. ;) My ballet teacher speaks French with a Romanian accent but my French is so bad, I understand her perfectly. Petite-batmah-ser-la-cooda-pee-YAY-on-rele-VAY? Sure, no problem. I couldn&amp;#x27;t have said it better myself. One more tidbit: the study also found that 60% of women had allowed themselves to be seduced by a man just because of his accent. Are you surprised by these results? What&amp;amp;#8217;s your favorite accent? Do you wish you had one? Plus: 3 Hot Actors with Accents Accents Are Hot&amp;amp;#133;But Do They Cloud Your Judgment? Can the Sound of a Guy&amp;amp;#8217;s Voice Turn You Off? Use a Fake Accent to Break Up With Someone P.S.: Facebook Connect is here! Now you can sign in to glamour.com using your Facebook login, plus instantly share your glamour.com comments with your Facebook friends (or not--your choice, every time you comment). Just click on the Connect with Facebook logo in the comments section to begin! More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter! Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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