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70-yr-old Telugu woman starts talking in American accent suddenly

A 70 year old illiterate Telugu woman started talking in an American accent out of the blue. While how that came about is unclear, there is speculation among the medical community that she might have been affected by Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS). An abrupt shift in accent can be a neurological issue and is brought on by damage to the brain’s speech centre, most frequently from a stroke.