# People with an accent entirely their own... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-an-accent-entirely-their-own/727297 "2015-08-08T07:12:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-an-accent-entirely-their-own/727297/10 "2015-08-08T18:31:14Z")
I started a thread about one such person recently but didn’t get any replies. Here was part of my OP. Everything I can find suggests that he is a real person despite sounding like he is from Transylvania. He has the most bizarre accent and speaking style that I have ever heard. His stories linked below are worth a listen. > [@Edgar Oliver, the most bizarre storyteller I have ever heard. Is he real?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edgar-oliver-the-most-bizarre-storyteller-i-have-ever-heard-is-he-real/726528/1): > > Edgar Oliver is an author, playwright and storyteller originally from Savannah, GA who now lives in NYC. He also has the distinction of probably the strangest person I have ever heard in any medium. His accent is positively bizarre especially for someone that grew up in Savannah. He sounds like a vampire from a 1940’s horror movie but he insists that he has always talked that way and cannot speak any other way. > [http://themoth.org/posts/storytellers/edgar-oliver](http://themoth.org/posts/storytellers/edgar-oliver) The Kennedy family may also count. They have (or had) their own very strong accent. Despite living in the Boston area for 20 years, I have only met one other person that talks even remotely like they do and she may be related to them as well for all I know. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-an-accent-entirely-their-own/727297)._