S Viemeister wrote:
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.

I had severe difficulty understand a woman in an ice cream truck in Wales
8-)
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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad