How you can wake up with a different accent. — -- What if you woke up one day suddenly speaking with a Southern twang or French lilt or British accent? In rare cases this happens to people when a ...

It’s time for a break from COVID columns. A new case of a rare syndrome called foreign accent syndrome (FAS) was recently reported in various news services. It was experienced by a 28-year-old ...

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 ...

Heard of bizarre diseases? There is another one, where a person wakes up and starts speaking in a different accent. The first story is of a 29-year-old British woman, Cathy Warren. She had experienced ...

A British woman says a stroke left her with an Italian accent and ability to speak the language – despite her never having visited the country. Althia Bryden, 58, was in bed one evening when her ...

The woman sitting across the table asks a question, one she’s repeated so many times it’s become a parlor game, one she wishes she didn’t have to play. Guess, Paula Noble says, gesturing at her mouth ...