Foreign Accent Syndromes: The stories people have to tell
What does it feel like to wake up speaking with a foreign accent from a country you’ve never visited?In what can be a rare but mortifying turn of events sufferers can find the condition known as “Foreign Accent Syndrome” hugely devastating.
There have been highly publicised examples in the news, for example 49-year-old Kay Russell from Gloucestershire was horrified to hear her English accent be replaced with French. And 35-year-old Sarah Colwill from Devon started speaking with a Chinese accent after suffering migraine like symptoms.
Nick Miller, co-author of Foreign Accent Syndromes,