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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[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?)