From: Phil Payne 

> No worse than the UK. Phil or Adam can probably fill you in on just how
> different the regional dialects and idioms are, even today. I have a tape of
> a standup comedian from Stoke-on-Trent whose accent and idioms might as well
> be in a foreign language as far as my wife is concerned (she's from Kent).

I immediately thought of The Big Yin (Billy Connolly).

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