After suffering a stroke whilst on holiday, Cathy Warren woke up in hospital with the left side of her body paralysed and was ...

Cathy says she feels like she's 'lost part of her identity' after being diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome in March 2025.

Oregon native Karen Butler speaks with a British accent since dental surgery. May 5, 2011— -- Karen Butler is from Oregon, not England. When asked where she got her accent, she says from her ...

Cathy woke up in hospital with the left side of her body paralysed and bizarrely, with a Thai accent instead of a Hampshire ...

Changing accents or speech patterns may be widely accepted in the media world, especially as actors and actresses use this tactic to fill in a role in their latest blockbuster or series. However, in ...

It sounds like something from a medical TV drama like “Grey’s Anatomy,” but last week a story began trending about a teenage native English speaker who woke up from a coma with a new ability to speak ...

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is an uncommon motor speech disorder characterised by the emergence of an accent perceived as non-native, often following neurological insults such as stroke. Unlike ...

The man was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer when he started talking with an Irish accent. Robina Weermeijer via Unsplash An American man suddenly started talking with an Irish accent during ...

An Italian woman suddenly had a Canadian accent when she spoke English, leaving specialists stumped. Brain scans didn't appear to reveal any obvious changes to her brain. Specialists diagnosed the ...

The man developed an Irish brogue even though he had never been to locations in Ireland like Dublin, pictured here. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) This may have been a wee bit of a surprise.