Best Swedish accent? Head to.... Gothenburg

E du go eller?!

Sweden has over 100 regional dialects across the country.  And according to a recent opinion poll conducted by Svenska Institutet för Opinionsundersökningar, not all are considered equal when it comes to how people with those dialects are perceived, especially not in matters of the heart.

The survey was conducted at the request of a dating website - they wanted to find out which dialect was perceived to be the most attractive, the sexiest...  And so, out on top came "Göteborgska", the local dialect from Gothenburg, with 18% of the total votes.

So, why are people with a Gothenburg accent considered more attractive?  The answer may be in the make up of the dialect:  the Gothenburg people "sing" their sentences, there is a certain roll in their words.   On top of that, the Gothenburg people are considered to be laid back, friendly and funny - so this may all have something to do with it, according to Margareta Svahn, a dialect researcher from the Institute for Language and Folklore (Institut för Språk och Folkminnen).

Second on the list was the regiona of Norrland with 17% and Skaane came in third with 16%.

Örebro is in the very heart of Sweden got absolutely no votes whatsoever  - whereas Stockholm came 7th with just 7% of the votes.

Heja Blåvitt, we say.  Let's all change our name to Glenn and move to Gothenburg.  No longer considered the Birmingham accent of Sweden:  it rules.

Read the full article here from The Local.

1. Göteborgska (18 percent)
2. Norrländska (17 percent)
3. Skånska (16 percent)
4. Värmländska (15 percent)
5. Dalmål (9 percent)
6. Gotländska (8 percent)
7. Stockholmska (7 percent)
8. Småländska (5 percent)
9. Västgötska (4 percent)
10. Halländska (1 percent)