Brisbane woman Angie Yen posted on TikTok claiming to have woken up with an Irish accent after having recently had tonsil surgery. Video / @angie.mcyenBrisbane woman Angie Yen posted on TikTok claiming to have woken up with an Irish accent after having recently had tonsil surgery. Instead of her normal Aussie accent, Yen was stunned to hear a "foreign accent" that "sounds very Irish". What is foreign accent syndrome? "People with foreign accent syndrome don't speak with all the features of a foreign accent, but there are enough things about the way they speak to make it seem as though they have a different accent."

Source: New Zealand Herald May 11, 2021 06:22 UTC