In my company here in Krakow, the staff need to call many different countries and never have any problems communicating in English. However, they do not like to call the UK so I must do it.
The reason? They cannot understand a word and complain about UK people speaking with noodles in the mouth.
I read an article about a French diplomat. He described foreign English as Globish.He once had a meeting with and Englishmen, a Malaysian and a Hungarian.Everybody understood the English conversation perfectly well but nobody could understand the English guy.He was really pissed off.
Rainboe, you forgot Luton. I sometimes understand the tourists over here but only because they use very short repetitive 4 letter words.