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You're referring to the Transatlantic accent, which was a contrived manner of speaking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

Another odd, acquired accent is the manner of speaking employed during air traffic communications, with elongated R sounds, as when pronouncing words like "roger" over poor signal quality.

You can almost hear the air traffic control in mission control's transmission in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but only slightly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFSE4dUJYM8




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