Head Injury Induces Foreign Accent Syndrome

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have identified a rare disorder in which people, usually who have suffered a brain injury, find themselves speaking with a foreign accent. As reported by Science Blog, a Florida woman found herself speaking with a British accident after a stroke left her partially paralyzed. Fewer than 20 cases have been reported since 1919."

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no such thing as a british accent

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Honestly, I'm not being a pedant here (well, maybe a bit), but there is no such thing as a British accent.

There are, however, a great variety of English, Welsh, and Scottish Accents.

The variation between them is at least as great as between the "Standard" (ie Southern Middle-Class) English accent and many American Accents.

As a Londoner, when I went to Glasgow, I couldn't understand a bloody word that anyone was saying, but we were both speaking with "British" accents.