Waking up with a new accent

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 7:00p.m.

Jill McKerrow has Foreign Accent Syndrome

Jill McKerrow has Foreign Accent Syndrome

Imagine waking up one morning with an entirely different accent.

That's the experience of a Blenheim woman who has joined a tiny group of people with the very rare condition, Foreign Accent Syndrome.

It was first documented a hundred years ago and since then there have only been around 50 recorded cases worldwide.

Whena Owen met Jill McKerrow who has spent her 67 years in Blenheim but sounds like she's from the other side of the world.

Watch the video.

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