Foreign Accent Syndrome

[STFC Village]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2254578,00.html

"RESEARCHERS are hoping that a woman who woke up after a stroke to find her Geordie accent sounding like Jamaican patois could shed some light on “foreign accent syndrome”.
Lynda Walker, 60, shows the symptoms of a rare affliction that leaves sufferers with a different accent. Although Ms Walker lived in Canada for a spell, she returned to the North East, where she grew up, and never lost her strong Geordie twang. But when she regained consciousness after a stroke in March last year, she spoke with a different accent. Most people believe that she sounds Jamaican"

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Probably quite a traumatic thing to go through, but  

[Sade]

 I wish I woke up with a welsh accent. That would piss everyone off.

[quinnismyhero]

But when she regained consciousness after a stroke in March last year, she spoke with a different accent

 I heard her on Radio 4 this morning - was well funny.  Deffo the strangest accent I have ever heard - funniest part was that her brother told her to stop pissing about when he first heard her!

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

The story about the woman with permanent sea sickness a while ago was quite funny as well   (Not if it happened to you of course but that's true of the other ones as well)

[quinnismyhero]

the woman with permanent sea sickness

Jeez that must be terrible.  I dont suffer but I have seen and smelt a x-channel ferry in a Force 9 and it aint pretty

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Yeah, she went on a cruise, got sea sick, the ship got back to dry land but the seasickness wouldn't go away and she still had it 6 months later. Your reaction is to laugh but it must be horrible!

[quinnismyhero]

the seasickness wouldn't go away

Until mysteriously, her husband sold their kingsize waterbed...

[Ralphy]

I would like a Spanish accent