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(00:00):
Every so often we get a goodstory about foreign accent syndrome, of course,
where like somebody like somebody bunks theirhead and they wake up and all
of a sudden, like I goto bed sounding like me, but I
bunked my head and then well Idon't want to do an accent, but
then all of a sudden, butthen all of a sudden, I'm like
(00:22):
Australian or something like the So anyway, there was a woman who who now
they don't know what caused her foreignaccent syndrome. She just woke up one
day. Yes that's it. Yes, no, bunk on the head nothing
the no, here we go theand I think we may have mentioned her
(00:43):
at one point. Did she usedto cheer for the local football team?
The Oh you know what, Youmay be right, that may be her.
No, there's no way this isher. The it wasn't that a
flu shot? Oh you're talking aboutso walk it out? Yeah no,
no, no, no no.This girl's from English, so I thought
maybe like you meant like her soccerthirty six year old woman. Her name
(01:07):
is Zoe Coles. She developed aWelsh accent in twenty twenty three and she
just got her regular accent, herEnglish accent back now now listen, I
don't know the difference between an Englishaccent and a Welsh accent. I have
no idea. You know, ourWelsh listeners are gonna be upset. That's
(01:29):
fine, and that's okay, ButI just I don't know. It says
she was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome, a condition where there's a problem with
how the brain sends and receives signals, and is thought to have cost her
accent change. Now though, Soin twenty twenty three, she wakes up
one day, just randomly wakes upand she's British, so she has an
(01:49):
English accent. Now all of asudden, she has a Welsh accent right,
And again I don't know if somebodystarted talking to me, I don't
know if I would know the difference. Now she wakes up two years late
or a year and a half latergone, and she's back to English.
But now she's worried it's going togo back, right I would. It's
(02:10):
yeah, miserable because she lives infear every day that it's going to revert
and go back to Welsh. Foras much as she doesn't know, she
doesn't because she doesn't know what causedit at least, like if you bunk
your head, you know what causedit. She's like, this could just
happen at the drop of a hat. We've laughed over the years at foreign
(02:32):
accent syndrome, Yeah, because it'sfunny. We've had laughs, and I
bet we'll continue to have laughs.But think about just think about what you
do for a living, right,Actually that may work out. That might
be funny. If you ended uppopping on the air and you had a
British accent? Oh my god,would I get fired? Would I get
(02:53):
fired? Fire you? No?No, are you kidding me? And
especially not for a few days.I was thinking more for like the eeo
and oh no, like for medical, like you can't fire me because I'm
you're gonna medical. No, Butlike what if I woke up, Like
(03:14):
what would be like if I ifI had a British accent, they would
just be like, I mean,it'd be fine, you know what I
mean, Like there have been Britishpeople. But what if I had like
a really hard to understand like Asianaccent. Oh, like it was coming
off as very offensive, yes,and like if people didn't know, like
if people were insure like or likelike I woke up and tomorrow hardcore Indian
(03:38):
like hardcore Indian, I couldn't ayear and a half, They're gonna let
me come in here, and you'relike, I swear I'm not making this
sound like. People would be likethere you can't. What is the that
would be rough? And then likeand then on a Thursday two years from
(03:58):
now, I'm like back to Bit'sdying, the bits dying. What's the
most drastic Asian witch ever documented?Oh I don't. I don't think we've
ever seen someone turn English to Asian. Yeah, yeah, turned into an
awful stereotype, like we've No,I'm not saying that. I'm not mad
(04:18):
at anybody. I'm just saying thatwould be that would be tough. But
I don't even think we've come acrossthat. So what you would be like
English to Canadian we see a lotof dialects. Yeah, I thought more
yeah Canadian. No, but thatthat doesn't work. No, I need
to know the answer to that question. English to English to not stuff,
(04:42):
continuing to say English to Asian No, no, no, that would be
tough. But have we seen Englishto like not that you speak Spanish,
but like you said, you speakwith like a Spanish accent. We've seen
that. We have seen that.Like I had the news on yesterday.
I don't know, Like before thefour o'clock news started, they had somebody
on Channel four doing weather. Iwas like, I'm whoa, I don't
(05:05):
know what's going on here, andthey got bomked. No, no,
they just they know. It wassomebody who had a very heavy Hispanic accent,
which is fine, I don't care, but it caught me off guard
because normally it'd be like like Ameliaor camera can't crappy camera or whatever.
(05:25):
This dude was like hardcore Hispanic accent. In twenty twelve, here we go
George Michael. Wait, are GeorgeMichael? No? Not in twenty twelve,
dead gets the chance any any accentwould have been amazing, you know,
(05:47):
he went from he went from deadto ghost. The legendary singer Woo
Wait George Michael had foreign accent syndromeand he went from British act sent to
Welsh. But he was in acoma for three weeks and he during his
(06:08):
recovery he came, rat me upbefore you go go, I'm sorry.
He went British dandy welch, butthere is somebody here. Oh last Christmas,
I gave you my old god firstlyback anyway, I'm sorry, Yes,
(06:31):
you know what I did, missieur. Thank you, Diane, thank
you. In October two thousand andeight and the BBC has done an hour
long documentary on this case. Butthere was a woman from England, from
Southwest England whose foreign accent syndrome wentBritish to Chinese. Shut the f up
(06:58):
after a migrat. Oh no,So I lay down on the floor for
two hours and I wake up nota stay. I have to look this
woman up. Sarah Collowell, Ibelieve her name is. Do they have
(07:24):
an example of her talking with thesyndrome? Would you know George Michael went
Welsh. I don't think I wouldknow that one. George Michael's pretty famous,
so you would think, like,what's what's easy for inventing himself?
Yeah? No, but you wouldmaybe you would just think that like,
oh, like he's trying something nowis this okay? Stop? I'm hitting
(07:51):
okay wait, I don't know ifyou're getting her recovery or before. Like
Diane just wondered, she went,what she went English to Chinese. Yeah,
and they put even the BBC putChinese in quotes, which we would
definitely do because she's not really Chinese. She's all right, here we go,
(08:16):
Here we go. My name isSarah Colwell. I am forty years
old. I live in Piedmouth,born and bred here in Pimouth about five
year ago. Now I had toI'm not doing that. I'm not Elliott
in the Morning about five year ago. Now's all, wow, when's the
(08:48):
last time you heard that? Soif I'm your Zoe girl? Yeah?
What is that? That sounded off? Kristen? Can you stop? No?
(09:11):
I can I wait for more?Migraine? Yes, I'll stop.
I'm back. Look, I'm back, I'm back. Here we go,
you said, Zoe. Maybe Dianesaid Zoey worries now about going back the
first woman that we talked about Englishto Well, yeah, now's English to
(09:31):
show Zoe the story of Sarah Zoey. Look at this great. I feel
like I've like transported back to likea bad Looney Tunes cartoon. Anyway,
how did I end up there?Oh? That dude's on vacation in Ireland?
(09:52):
Yes, yes, yes, whatThyland? Jay writes, I knew
it was a matter of time beforeElliott stopped tiptoeing around it and just broke
out the exaggerations. I'm so gladI was right. Doesn't say that he's
glad to have us back, Andnow I'm just glad he was right.
Every so often we get a goodstory about foreign accent syndrome, of course,
where like somebody like somebody bunks theirhead and they wake up and all
of a sudden, like I goto bed sounding like me, but I
bunked my head and then well Idon't want to do an accent, but
then all of a sudden, butthen all of a sudden, I'm like
(00:22):
Australian or something like the So anyway, there was a woman who who now
they don't know what caused her foreignaccent syndrome. She just woke up one
day. Yes that's it. Yes, no, bunk on the head nothing
the no, here we go theand I think we may have mentioned her
(00:43):
at one point. Did she usedto cheer for the local football team?
The Oh you know what, Youmay be right, that may be her.
No, there's no way this isher. The it wasn't that a
flu shot? Oh you're talking aboutso walk it out? Yeah no,
no, no, no no.This girl's from English, so I thought
maybe like you meant like her soccerthirty six year old woman. Her name
(01:07):
is Zoe Coles. She developed aWelsh accent in twenty twenty three and she
just got her regular accent, herEnglish accent back now now listen, I
don't know the difference between an Englishaccent and a Welsh accent. I have
no idea. You know, ourWelsh listeners are gonna be upset. That's
(01:29):
fine, and that's okay, ButI just I don't know. It says
she was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome, a condition where there's a problem with
how the brain sends and receives signals, and is thought to have cost her
accent change. Now though, Soin twenty twenty three, she wakes up
one day, just randomly wakes upand she's British, so she has an
(01:49):
English accent. Now all of asudden, she has a Welsh accent right,
And again I don't know if somebodystarted talking to me, I don't
know if I would know the difference. Now she wakes up two years late
or a year and a half latergone, and she's back to English.
But now she's worried it's going togo back, right I would. It's
(02:10):
yeah, miserable because she lives infear every day that it's going to revert
and go back to Welsh. Foras much as she doesn't know, she
doesn't because she doesn't know what causedit at least, like if you bunk
your head, you know what causedit. She's like, this could just
happen at the drop of a hat. We've laughed over the years at foreign
(02:32):
accent syndrome, Yeah, because it'sfunny. We've had laughs, and I
bet we'll continue to have laughs.But think about just think about what you
do for a living, right,Actually that may work out. That might
be funny. If you ended uppopping on the air and you had a
British accent? Oh my god,would I get fired? Would I get
(02:53):
fired? Fire you? No?No, are you kidding me? And
especially not for a few days.I was thinking more for like the eeo
and oh no, like for medical, like you can't fire me because I'm
you're gonna medical. No, Butlike what if I woke up, Like
(03:14):
what would be like if I ifI had a British accent, they would
just be like, I mean,it'd be fine, you know what I
mean, Like there have been Britishpeople. But what if I had like
a really hard to understand like Asianaccent. Oh, like it was coming
off as very offensive, yes,and like if people didn't know, like
if people were insure like or likelike I woke up and tomorrow hardcore Indian
(03:38):
like hardcore Indian, I couldn't ayear and a half, They're gonna let
me come in here, and you'relike, I swear I'm not making this
sound like. People would be likethere you can't. What is the that
would be rough? And then likeand then on a Thursday two years from
(03:58):
now, I'm like back to Bit'sdying, the bits dying. What's the
most drastic Asian witch ever documented?Oh I don't. I don't think we've
ever seen someone turn English to Asian. Yeah, yeah, turned into an
awful stereotype, like we've No,I'm not saying that. I'm not mad
(04:18):
at anybody. I'm just saying thatwould be that would be tough. But
I don't even think we've come acrossthat. So what you would be like
English to Canadian we see a lotof dialects. Yeah, I thought more
yeah Canadian. No, but thatthat doesn't work. No, I need
to know the answer to that question. English to English to not stuff,
(04:42):
continuing to say English to Asian No, no, no, that would be
tough. But have we seen Englishto like not that you speak Spanish,
but like you said, you speakwith like a Spanish accent. We've seen
that. We have seen that.Like I had the news on yesterday.
I don't know, Like before thefour o'clock news started, they had somebody
on Channel four doing weather. Iwas like, I'm whoa, I don't
(05:05):
know what's going on here, andthey got bomked. No, no,
they just they know. It wassomebody who had a very heavy Hispanic accent,
which is fine, I don't care, but it caught me off guard
because normally it'd be like like Ameliaor camera can't crappy camera or whatever.
(05:25):
This dude was like hardcore Hispanic accent. In twenty twelve, here we go
George Michael. Wait, are GeorgeMichael? No? Not in twenty twelve,
dead gets the chance any any accentwould have been amazing, you know,
(05:47):
he went from he went from deadto ghost. The legendary singer Woo
Wait George Michael had foreign accent syndromeand he went from British act sent to
Welsh. But he was in acoma for three weeks and he during his
(06:08):
recovery he came, rat me upbefore you go go, I'm sorry.
He went British dandy welch, butthere is somebody here. Oh last Christmas,
I gave you my old god firstlyback anyway, I'm sorry, Yes,
(06:31):
you know what I did, missieur. Thank you, Diane, thank
you. In October two thousand andeight and the BBC has done an hour
long documentary on this case. Butthere was a woman from England, from
Southwest England whose foreign accent syndrome wentBritish to Chinese. Shut the f up
(06:58):
after a migrat. Oh no,So I lay down on the floor for
two hours and I wake up nota stay. I have to look this
woman up. Sarah Collowell, Ibelieve her name is. Do they have
(07:24):
an example of her talking with thesyndrome? Would you know George Michael went
Welsh. I don't think I wouldknow that one. George Michael's pretty famous,
so you would think, like,what's what's easy for inventing himself?
Yeah? No, but you wouldmaybe you would just think that like,
oh, like he's trying something nowis this okay? Stop? I'm hitting
(07:51):
okay wait, I don't know ifyou're getting her recovery or before. Like
Diane just wondered, she went,what she went English to Chinese. Yeah,
and they put even the BBC putChinese in quotes, which we would
definitely do because she's not really Chinese. She's all right, here we go,
(08:16):
Here we go. My name isSarah Colwell. I am forty years
old. I live in Piedmouth,born and bred here in Pimouth about five
year ago. Now I had toI'm not doing that. I'm not Elliott
in the Morning about five year ago. Now's all, wow, when's the
(08:48):
last time you heard that? Soif I'm your Zoe girl? Yeah?
What is that? That sounded off? Kristen? Can you stop? No?
(09:11):
I can I wait for more?Migraine? Yes, I'll stop.
I'm back. Look, I'm back, I'm back. Here we go,
you said, Zoe. Maybe Dianesaid Zoey worries now about going back the
first woman that we talked about Englishto Well, yeah, now's English to
(09:31):
show Zoe the story of Sarah Zoey. Look at this great. I feel
like I've like transported back to likea bad Looney Tunes cartoon. Anyway,
how did I end up there?Oh? That dude's on vacation in Ireland?
(09:52):
Yes, yes, yes, whatThyland? Jay writes, I knew
it was a matter of time beforeElliott stopped tiptoeing around it and just broke
out the exaggerations. I'm so gladI was right. Doesn't say that he's
glad to have us back, Andnow I'm just glad he was right.
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