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I am British.
In fact, I am English (there is a significant diference - like the difference between "an American" and "a Texan").
I have an educated, professional accent and vocabular.
I deplore laxity in language - I detest people who use "like" as a space filler, or as shorthand to mean "said". I loath the rising inflection that make everything sound like a question. Both of these come from the US.
I hate the dropping of the initial letter H in words - 'appy, 'ello, and (yes) 'erbs. Both versions of English do that.
Certain accents make the user sound stupid to many people - the Birmingham accent (that's Birming'am, England - not BirmingHam, Alabama), but then the deep southern accent (as used by Cletus the Yokel in The Simpsons) is just as bad.
An upper class Boston accent (Boston, Mass - not Boston, Lincolnshire) sounds educated to me - think Charles Emmerson Winchester III in M*A*S*H*.
Talking about "the American accent" is like talking about "the American weather" - it's not one thing, it's several.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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