Agreed. I'm a Brit and I moved to Canada, I've noticed very little difference in the commercial-language we use.
Brits are like the tale about the Eskimo's and their quantity of words for snow; only we have 30 slang words for every common word we use. I personally didn't realise it, it was my wife who has to ask me to repeat things in English because we'll get onto a conversation subject we haven't touched before (or in a long time) and I'll be full-accent, full-slang and she doesn't have a clue what I just said.
Honestly, through the multitude of accents present in the UK, I found that 95% of people can understand anything you present to them so long as it's in some acceptable (note not accepted) form of the English language. The similar is wholly untrue of Americans and Canadians who are just shit out of luck when it comes to accents.
Brits are like the tale about the Eskimo's and their quantity of words for snow; only we have 30 slang words for every common word we use. I personally didn't realise it, it was my wife who has to ask me to repeat things in English because we'll get onto a conversation subject we haven't touched before (or in a long time) and I'll be full-accent, full-slang and she doesn't have a clue what I just said.
Honestly, through the multitude of accents present in the UK, I found that 95% of people can understand anything you present to them so long as it's in some acceptable (note not accepted) form of the English language. The similar is wholly untrue of Americans and Canadians who are just shit out of luck when it comes to accents.