On 2013-01-04 15:37:27 -0600, JohnT said:

"S Viemeister" wrote in message
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On 1/4/2013 4:54 AM, Surreyman wrote:

This is all hardly surprising.
Even accents within the UK can cause problems, even with no dialect words.
I (from Surrey) once had to 'translate' my MD's Paisley (Scotland)
accent in a Pennsylvania business meeting!

And I've had to translate between Lowland Scots and Texans. Both sides
believed themselves to be speaking English.

The denizens of Birmingham also believe that English is their native language.

There is a TV show in America call The Ultimate Fighter, there mixed
martial artists fight in a bracket competition. A few years back there
was US vs UK series of it, and it chagrined some of the Britons that
they had to have subtitles. :-)

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