With all the different accents English can be hard to understand even for those who speak the language, then if you add in the expressions that come with the various areas you will likely be confused at best. For instance in England instead of using "dibs" as a way to claim something they use "bagsy". Or how about "give me a tinkler on the blower"? In British English it means to call someone on the telephone, and the tinkler part is how they describe a phone ringing, or at least in the days before ring tones.
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