Texas Woman Develops British Accent After Jaw Surgery

A woman in Texas woke up after jaw surgery with a British accent. Lisa Alamia, 33, was only scheduled to have corrective surgery to fix an overbite at Houston’s Methodist Sugar Land Hospital last December, but when the surgery was over, she woke up with the very rare “foreign accent syndrome.” "I was very shocked," she told ABC News. "I didn't know how to take it. I was very confused. I said 'Ya'll' all the time before the accent. Once I got the accent, I...

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