Can people please stop perpetuating the myth that American English is the original English from the 17/18th century and the British changed it. That is simply not true. Admittedly things have changed over the past few hundred years, like gotten/got, fall/autumn, and the former stayed in use in America. But any changes in Britain were through the natural evolution of the language, which is how English is what it is today anyway.

The reason for differences between American and British English, is a reform in America (or rather a dictionary) in which someone called Webster thought he would reform the English language. He was trying to simplify spellings and standardise them, but another motive was to distance the U.S. from Britain.

You could say that this is also a natural evolution of the English language, after all, many other countries have reformed their language. Maybe so, but when other countries have reformed their language, it has been driven by the government, so that everyone is using the same language. The changes in America were not supported by the government, they were just adopted. But naturally they were not adopted anywhere else in the Commonwealth. The result is very confusing, since you have different spellings in Britain and America, and a mixture elsewhere, like in Canada. For this reason I don't believe there should have been any changes. Please argue with this if you think otherwise.

What is true however, is that some American accents are closer to 18th century English than modern British English. In particular how people talk in the south of the UK, e.g. bath is barth, grass is grarse. A lot of people think this is how everyone in the UK speaks; this isn't so. You don't have to go far north to find people who speak with the short A, and even find the "broad A" annoying.

i also find myself messing up the way i talk because im watching to many foreign shows lol its bad. ill watch bcc and these other british shows that they show on pbs, and then ill speak the perfect british accent (in my opinion) but then sometimes i cant stop... u know how it goes lol o well. but i dont find myself 'speaking' canadian though.

i think that all languages in all different accents can sound pleasing to the ear, dont u think? its just the way a person flows and their tonation. its just the british accent as better tonation, and the american accent flows more lol.