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Essex named sexiest British accent followed closely by, um, Glaswegian

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

"Strathaven is your next one."

Many years ago, on a trip from NE England to Scotland, pre-satnav days, parts of the directions I was given was "turn right at Str'van". No amount of scouring the map cold locate such a place (assuming it was spelled Stravan), so I phoned up our Scottish office and he spelled it out for me :-)

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