Foreign Accent Syndrome

You guys out there had heard about many different accents right???....but do you know that there is such a disease called a foreign accent syndrome???...I actually got a shock when I heard that there was such a disease. I was so interested in it that i decided to check it out a little more....Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition involving speech production that usually occurs as a side effect of severe brain injury, such as a stroke or a head injury, though two cases have been reported of individuals as a development problem.

To the untrained ear, those with the syndrome sound as though they speak their native language with a foreign accent; for example, an American native speaker of English might sound as though they speak with a south-eastern British accent, or a native British speaker might speak with a New York American accent. However, researchers at Oxford University have found that certain, specific parts of the brain were injured in some foreign-accent syndrome cases, indicating that certain parts of the brain control various linguistic functions, and damage could result in altered pitch or mispronounced syllabus, causing the speech patterns to have a different sounding accent.

So, to you guys out there, have you notice that maybe one of your friends has this disease??...go check n see. If you are "lucky", maybe you will find one in your midst. To see about this syndrome, go check out this video in youtube. URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Z_WV_NE8Q
I apologise for not being able to upload the video.