American accents? Depends on whose ears they fall on

Regional accents or dialects in the United States have charmed, annoyed and puzzled Americans for a long time.

While the argument has been made for some time that the accents eventually will disappear due to the ubiquity of television and the internet, they're still around. TV newscasters are known for having no accents (think Iowa).

A lifestyle site called Big 7 Travel - which sees its 1.5 million readers as a "mobile-first, millennial audience" - recently put out a list of the "sexiest accents" in the US.