I'm reading "Picture of Dorian Gray". It's interesting how they spoke back then.Are there remain people who speak the same manner in today's?

To John of Yorkshire:  "Wha did thy bludie sigh?"

 I think the academic community speaks a more cerebral, cultivated, precise sort of English among themselves than we lower educated mortals do. To me, they come close to the late Victorians, but there are so few of them now that they must meet their undergraduates' expectations.

But there were few like Oscar Wilde even in late Victorian times. He was a university wit, rather precious in his posing, and his friends and followers lived in a ratified world of Victorian aestetes, like the "Souls" coterie of that time, or the "Beats" in the 1950s. They cultivated their own style, and if they did not accept you, you were "out" no matter how hard you tried to emulate then.

I think before saying everyone speaks like Americans you should check out some people NOT in America.

Laugh & enjoy, from Yorkshire, God's Own County :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLYpKGVBUg

Few people ever spoke like Oscar Wilde. He was hardly typical of the period as he was Anglo Irish and a renown wit, but not especially high society - his father was a leading doctor rather than an aristocrat. A lot of Wooton's epigrams are pure Wilde.