English woman, 60, reveals why she suddenly speaks with Swedish accent -- medics at first suspected a stroke

Georgina Gailey, 60, noticed her Swedish twang while chatting to her sister on FaceTime.

The mom-of-two from the UK, said: “I had a heart attack a few months earlier. I was getting better.“People ask where I come from and when I tell them they laugh. I smile but underneath it makes me sad.Georgina went on: “I went to the hospital and they thought I had a stroke.Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare disorder which can occur after trauma to the brain.

Georgina said: “I don’t know if I’ll have the accent forever. I want to raise awareness because the more people know about it the more research will be done.”In 2022, Brisbane dentist Angie Wen – who moved to Australia from Taiwan when she was eight – has been living with foreign accent syndrome since April 2021, when her voice began to sound different 10 days after a tonsillectomy.

, the 29-year-old said more than a year later, her accent “hasn’t completely reverted back” to her Australian twang. Ms Yen said that while the “speech issues were temporary struggles that got better with time”, the greatest challenge has been “accepting my new accent, voice and identity”.Historian who predicted almost every election since 1984 gives take on Trump-Harris matchup

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