Thursday, July 06, 2006
Geordie stroke victim wakes up with Jamaican accent
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(Rod Minchin - Independent.co.uk) from United Kingdom.
A Geordie woman woke up after suffering a stroke and started speaking with a Jamaican accent.
Linda Walker came round in hospital to discover her distinctive North-east twang had disappeared.
The former university administrator, from Newcastle, is suffering from a case of foreign accent syndrome, where patients wake up speaking differently after suffering a brain injury.
Ms Walker, 60, told the Evening Chronicle: "I got very down about it at first. It is so strange because you don't feel like the same person. I didn't realise what I sounded like but then my speech therapist played a tape of me talking. I was just devastated."
On the telephone she sounds like she has a Jamaican accent but other people have said it is eastern...
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muse in posePosted by SilverJade Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Rod Minchin - Independent.co.uk) from United Kingdom.
A Geordie woman woke up after suffering a stroke and started speaking with a Jamaican accent.
Linda Walker came round in hospital to discover her distinctive North-east twang had disappeared.
The former university administrator, from Newcastle, is suffering from a case of foreign accent syndrome, where patients wake up speaking differently after suffering a brain injury.
Ms Walker, 60, told the Evening Chronicle: "I got very down about it at first. It is so strange because you don't feel like the same person. I didn't realise what I sounded like but then my speech therapist played a tape of me talking. I was just devastated."
On the telephone she sounds like she has a Jamaican accent but other people have said it is eastern...
Read More...
