The Welsh accent is undoubtedly one of the most distinctive in the UK and it is heard on almost all TV and internet platforms.
From Charlotte Church to Rob Brydon, there are many well-known people who speak with a Welsh accent.
And it seems people can’t get enough. In a survey, more respondents (38 per cent) said they found Welsh tones to be calming than picked any other.
Yorkshire and Cornish were tied for second place (36 per cent), while the top five was completed by Northern Irish (35 per cent) and received pronunciation (RP) accents (34 per cent).Liverpudlian was among the least calming options and was towards the bottom of the ranking at 23 per cent.
Spa Seekers and a specialist from the University of Sheffield collaborated on the study.
In the survey, 1,502 nationally representative individuals were asked to rate the degree of relaxation associated with 15 different UK accents.No accent "has inherent parts that makes them relaxing", according to Dr Chris Montgomery, a senior lecturer in dialectology at the institution, in a statement to Sky News.
"It's the connotations that they have that people learn over time," he said.
"With the Welsh accent, people probably go to Wales, they might go on holiday. They come to Wales to the countryside, associate it with being in that place, going to the beach, perhaps being in Snowdonia or the other national parks."
Survey participants were presented with multiple accent "labels" to select from. Although there are differences among the nations and areas of the UK, the study's list of accents is not all-inclusive.
Dr Montgomery explained: “Essentially, what you've got is a number of different accent names, you've got a number of different scales and then people rate on those scales. And then we looked at what the rank ordering was.
“We just used the label 'Welsh accent'. Obviously, there's a lot of variation in Wales," Dr Montgomery added. They say north and south are quite important in Wales in terms of Welsh and in terms of Welsh English.
“But then there'll be variation in different cities as well. So we just used that one label, and that was really for convenience.”
