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US cancer patient developed 'uncontrollable' Irish accent
First described in 1907, Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare motor speech disorder. With FAS, your native language will remain the same but your accent sounds very different from your native accent, like American English and British. The most common cause of this rare symptom is brain damage that stems from a stroke or traumatic brain injury. There have been only just over 100 cases reported in the last 100 years. Recently, a man with prostate cancer in North Carolina, USA, developed an uncontrollable Irish accent all of a sudden, which he had never spoken before and he remained speaking with the accent until his death. Though he lived in England for some time, he had no immediate family from Ireland.
Enjoy reading the article and learn about what FAS is about.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64671894
US cancer patient developed 'uncontrollable' Irish accent
First described in 1907, Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare motor speech disorder. With FAS, your native language will remain the same but your accent sounds very different from your native accent, like American English and British. The most common cause of this rare symptom is brain damage that stems from a stroke or traumatic brain injury. There have been only just over 100 cases reported in the last 100 years. Recently, a man with prostate cancer in North Carolina, USA, developed an uncontrollable Irish accent all of a sudden, which he had never spoken before and he remained speaking with the accent until his death. Though he lived in England for some time, he had no immediate family from Ireland.
Enjoy reading the article and learn about what FAS is about.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64671894
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