Comments on: Foreign Accent Syndrome: Yorkshireman ‘spoke with Irish accent after brain surgery’ http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/ The official Derren Brown Blog Mon, 07 May 2012 09:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Flapjack http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9341 Flapjack Fri, 01 May 2009 10:21:58 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9341 Katherine aka KatM - Waie aye leek! I'm feeling well Geordie now leek. I'm off down Beeker Groove now to give it the road test, Ta! Katherine aka KatM – Waie aye leek! I’m feeling well Geordie now leek. I’m off down Beeker Groove now to give it the road test, Ta!

]]> By: Siobhan http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9334 Siobhan Fri, 01 May 2009 08:34:16 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9334 @ Simon... my thoughts exactly, he'll be saying 'top of the mornin to ya' next... (we really never say that!) @ Simon… my thoughts exactly, he’ll be saying ‘top of the mornin to ya’ next… (we really never say that!)

]]> By: Katherine aka KatM http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9333 Katherine aka KatM Fri, 01 May 2009 07:13:35 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9333 Flapjack: Thwackkkkk. Done. Feeling better now? Flapjack: Thwackkkkk. Done. Feeling better now?

]]> By: Flapjack http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9325 Flapjack Fri, 01 May 2009 00:17:29 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9325 I would pay good money for this treatment... the only way I come close to mimicing a Geordie accent (or anything north of the Watford gap for that matter) is if I insert the word "leek" into every sentence, y'know leek. It doesn't fool anyone leek. "Day twenty eeit in the Big Brother House leek". See. It's rubbish. Someone whack me round the head! I would pay good money for this treatment… the only way I come close to mimicing a Geordie accent (or anything north of the Watford gap for that matter) is if I insert the word “leek” into every sentence, y’know leek.
It doesn’t fool anyone leek. “Day twenty eeit in the Big Brother House leek”. See. It’s rubbish. Someone whack me round the head!

]]> By: Simon http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9311 Simon Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:52:26 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9311 Can it also make you a stereotype-spouting characature? Ok, maybe that's too far, but "It's the broid"? Really?? Can it also make you a stereotype-spouting characature? Ok, maybe that’s too far, but “It’s the broid”? Really??

]]> By: Emma Rose http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9305 Emma Rose Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:54:46 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9305 I have a very strange accent. Most people I meet ask if I'm American or Canadian. I think it's from when I was younger I picked up the local Nottingham accent and forced myself to change it! Can't be doing with "Ayup me duck" I have a very strange accent. Most people I meet ask if I’m American or Canadian. I think it’s from when I was younger I picked up the local Nottingham accent and forced myself to change it! Can’t be doing with “Ayup me duck”

]]> By: Katherine aka KatM http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9302 Katherine aka KatM Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:39:08 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9302 What accent change would you wish for? I suspect my 'south somewhere' nice English accent would be transformed into a north-east one, Sunderland Macam to be precise rather than Newcastle Geordie, as I'm rather good at mimicking my other half. What accent change would you wish for?

I suspect my ‘south somewhere’ nice English accent would be transformed into a north-east one, Sunderland Macam to be precise rather than Newcastle Geordie, as I’m rather good at mimicking my other half.

]]> By: Emma Rose http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9298 Emma Rose Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:58:35 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9298 That sounds great! (Not the surgery part) I think weed can cause that too... That sounds great! (Not the surgery part)
I think weed can cause that too…

]]> By: Katherine aka KatM http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/04/foreign-accent-syndrome-yorkshireman-spoke-with-irish-accent-after-brain-surgery/#comment-9293 Katherine aka KatM Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:54:19 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=1671#comment-9293 That is me! Katherine aka KatM :) Boy this changing name is a right palaver. That is me! Katherine aka KatM :)
Boy this changing name is a right palaver.

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