I don't know very much about English accents

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

And I'm trying to work Holmes's father into a story.



I mean, there must be money there. But does this Sherlock sound like he went to a public school? Is he from London originally? Any guesses? Theories?

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[pippopippo.livejournal.com]

Yes, JLM/Sherlock has a London accent, so I think there's a really good chance that's where he's from originally.

Sherlock also says in 1x03: "My father packed me off to boarding school when I was just eight years old."

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I remember that bit. I wasn't entirely certain it would mean a public school in the English sense though. Don't they start with kids who are eleven?

[venusinthenight]

Similar to the US, you probably know each region of England has its own accent or dialect. Even London has multiple accents (Cockney, anyone?). And then there's Received Pronunciation (RP), or "the Queen's English." This is fairly close to what Sherlock's accent is (I think JLM uses his own accent here). He would've had it drilled in him since birth as he likely would've had a posh upbringing.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

So I can assume he's posh at least. Money, good school... Presumably his father would be someone with influence.

[venusinthenight]

I think that's a safe assumption. :)

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni35748990/

7 September 2012 2:58 AM, PDT | digitalspy

"CBS Sherlock Holmes series Elementary has cast Roger Rees in a guest role. The Welsh actor will play a pivotal figure from Holmes's past, Entertainment Weekly reports. Rees is currently only signed for a single appearance but his character may recur later in the first season of the Conan Doyle adaptation, which stars Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Liu as his partner Joan Watson. Elementary exec Robert Doherty previously hinted that the show is "likely" to introduce the detective's estranged father."

He's Welsh, but he usually does a very posh English accent.

Jonny Lee Miller's accent is very middle class Londoner -- compare to Benedict
Cumberbatch's more "posh" Oxbridge accent. Jude Law has an accent similar
to Miller's -- both are suburban Londoners from well-to-do families, but not
particularly "posh" speaking.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

So what kind of school can we expect for this Holmes? He says boarding school, but it wouldn't be an Eton or a Harrow, right?

Well, he could have gotten himself kicked out...

(I am going to get jossed before I've even finished this thing, aren't I?)