Assistance with information about accents, for that girl from the deep South
OK, I've got some fics I'm trying to work on, in both the AtS and BBC Sherlock fandom. I'm curious about the differences in the English accents I've heard, as I was born and raised in Georgia, haven't really done much traveling in my life, and the extent of my time in the UK is limited to a two week trip to Belfast and Ardara when I was 9 years old.
On AtS, Wesley and Spike are both British, but their accents are completely different from each other. On Sherlock, it seems the accents are all really unique among the characters, Sherlock and John and Lestrade and Mycroft all sounding very distinct from each other (not as much between Sherlock and Mycroft but John to some extent and especially Lestrade).
Is this something that comes from being raised in different geographical locations, like in the US, where someone from Michigan and someone from Alabama and someone from Massachusetts sound nothing alike? Or is it a cultural thing, like socioeconomic background (a college educated person from Michigan might not speak anything like her neighbor who grew up in a trailer park and dropped out of school in ninth grade)? Or cultural/learned (two kids in Alabama might grow up on the same block but if one is black and one is white, their voices and vocabulary tend to be at least somewhat different)?
Does anyone have any insight on this?
On AtS, Wesley and Spike are both British, but their accents are completely different from each other. On Sherlock, it seems the accents are all really unique among the characters, Sherlock and John and Lestrade and Mycroft all sounding very distinct from each other (not as much between Sherlock and Mycroft but John to some extent and especially Lestrade).
Is this something that comes from being raised in different geographical locations, like in the US, where someone from Michigan and someone from Alabama and someone from Massachusetts sound nothing alike? Or is it a cultural thing, like socioeconomic background (a college educated person from Michigan might not speak anything like her neighbor who grew up in a trailer park and dropped out of school in ninth grade)? Or cultural/learned (two kids in Alabama might grow up on the same block but if one is black and one is white, their voices and vocabulary tend to be at least somewhat different)?
Does anyone have any insight on this?