Did a flight to Perth many, many years ago and we had progressive taxi instructions. We passed one intersection coming to a left taxiway just about 10 meters ahead. Instead of telling us to take the " coming immediate left taxiway " the Aussie controller said " take the next left ". We bypassed the immediate left taxiway and took the next " left " only to have the Aussie guy exasperatedly howling that we should have taken the previous left...we protested that he said the next left! He said in Oz the next left means the coming left! Jeez, we all spoke English, but different English.......why do people make life so hard for themselves and others. Just tell us, take the coming left ahead...not too difficult yeah!