America and Australia are, to my ear, in the same boat as the UK: accents abound but if you were to transcribe people's speech they would all appear to be Calif

America and Australia are, to my ear, in the same boat as the UK: accents abound but if you were to transcribe people's speech they would all appear to be Californian There are regional distinctions in word choice in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_vocabularies_of_American_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_vocabularies_of_Ameri... And apparently even within CA itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella