Foreign accent syndrome

Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition in which patients develop speech patterns that are perceived as a foreign accent^[1] that is different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent's place of origin.

Foreign accent syndrome usually results from a stroke,^[1] but can also develop from head trauma,^[1] migraines^[2] or developmental problems.^[3] The condition was first reported in 1907,^[4] and between 1941 and 2009 there were sixty-two recorded cases.^[3]

Its symptoms result from distorted articulatory planning and coordination processes and although popular news articles commonly attempt to identify the closest regional accent, speakers suffering from foreign accent syndrome acquire neither a specific foreign accent nor any additional fluency in a foreign language. Despite an unconfirmed news report in 2010 that a Croatian speaker had gained the ability to speak fluent German after emergence from a coma,^[5] there has been no verified case where a patient's foreign language skills have improved after a brain injury. There have been a few reported cases of children and siblings picking up the new accent from someone with foreign accent -wiki link

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An adventurous dog took his walkies to a new height by jumping onto his roof.

Pyrenean mountain dog Ollie was stranded on the 30ft high rooftop while his owners out on a shopping trip.

A shocked neighbour spotted the giant fluffy white dog tottering around on the slate roof instead of his mountain breeding.-read more

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From April 6th 2017 any taxi who refuses a wheelchair user will face a 1,000 pounds fine and hit with penalties if charge more.The  covers wheelchair accessible taxis and private hire taxis .

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The remains of dozens of people who were buried more than 200 years ago are being slowly exposed on an island in Kent.

Horror stories have been handed down the generations about the mysterious site, known as Deadman's Island, so the BBC's Inside Out South East programme took a boat across to investigate whether any of the rumours were true.

Lots of people have since been talking about it on social media sites.

Here are the answers to six things you wanted to know.

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1. Where is Deadman's Island and who owns it?

It lies at the mouth of The Swale, opposite the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, off the north Kent coast.

The uninhabited mudbank is owned by Natural England, who lease it to two people.-read more and see video

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British scientists have taken the first steps towards building a real-life version of Deep Thought, the supercomputer programmed to solve the "ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything" in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

The team has come up with the first practical blueprint for constructing a giant quantum computer, a thinking device capable of rapidly providing answers to problems that would take an ordinary computer billions of years to solve.

A proof-of-concept early prototype is planned within two years at the University of Sussex.

For many years, people said that it was completely impossible to construct an actual quantum computerProfessor Winfried Hensinger, University of Sussex

But the ground-breaking modular design could theoretically pave the way to a machine as large as a football field with undreamed of levels of computing power.

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