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Of course there are, you’re spot on about that. Even more so with British English, although I speak Australian English, which is another level entirely of colloquilist mangling. I think when you haven’t grown up with certain idioms they take a bit of getting used to. As I said generally speaking colourful regional vernacular is a good thing, if everyone spoke proper English the world would be a dull place indeed.
I’ve had a friend for years, who I found out would write some words exactly as he pronounced them.
A bunch of us guys were staying in a rented pool home, near Marbella, Spain one year, and he wrote a postcard home to his sister.
I was driving to the nearby town, for beer, wine, and tequila, and he said, “Jean, here’s 100 pesetas, (this was way before the euro), go in the correos, get a stamp, and mail this card please.”
I looked at the card, as I knew his sister well, after a week of hot sun, it had been cloudy for a day and a half, and he’d written, “The weather has turnt”, when he meant that the weather had turned.
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instead of "Will you take me home?"