I'm already ahead of you.
I was watching BBC America when an announcement came up:
I smiled. My set's CC was already activated.
Not even British people can follow the British accent one hundred percent of the time. Therefore... you, like me, might want to use closed captioning.
I smiled. My set's CC was already activated.
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@japanesewhispers: I think that it is the case that when most people think of the American accent, they do have a particular accent in mind. Namely the Mid-western which is pretty much de facto American Standard. Would you that it is true that when foreigners imagine a British accent, they are actually thinking of Received Pronunciation?
But yes, your observation in this case is on the money. What the commercial/announcement was about was a lead in to one of the BBC's series. One of those where the characters speak with heavy regional accents, use British slang, and do it all at a mile a minute.