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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she should make a t-shirt

[shweazel]

"I had a stroke and all I got was this bloody accent"

The name of the disease

[Gzip Christ]

Here's a couple of links on recent developments in understanding this rare and curious disorder called. It got me...

I think you meant to say that the disease is called "Foreign Accent Syndrome". Next time, do a better job cutting and pasting when you repost other people's blog entries as your own (see the second post on the page). Other than that, you copied this other guys blog posting verbatim. Why do you insist on copying other people's work? You sir, are worse than Darl McBride.

no such thing as a british accent

[tiled_rainbows]

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.