A Canadian mother had an accident of falling from the horse, and when she woke up, she was using Scottish accent instead of Canadian.
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According to the report, Sharon Campbell-Rayment, 50, ran a horse riding school and once she fell off a horse. After waking up, she realized that “she had started using Scottish accent”.
Doctors later diagnosed foreign accent syndrome – a rare condition associated with head injuries, which affected yet only 60 people worldwide.
After an eight weeks of speech therapy, she got her original accent again, but her Canadian tones had become Caledonian.
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Sharon recently started horse riding again, said “Doctors have said I might have the Scottish accent for the rest of my life, or it might just disappear overnight but I don’t think it’s going anywhere fast”.
