Not only is the language often peculiar, so are some of their beliefs. I happened to meet an older bloke in Buckie, and immediately after saying hello to him he asked me how many guns I owned. He honestly believed we yanks all walk down the street with six shooters holstered around our waists.
My wife has a pen pal in England. She stayed with us for a couple of weeks last year. Her accent was cute and quite understandable, although she did have a few sayings that I had to have her clarify.
She has a high speed Internet connection is computer savvy, and the two of them had exchanged many emails over a period of months. She still had some surprising misconceptions. Although we do have dozens of vintage firearms in our collection... which she enjoyed shooting immensely, especially my wife’s WWII era .30 Carbine. So she very well may have gone back and told her friends that we are gun nuts.