English woman who woke up with Welsh accent FINALLY has old accent back
An English woman who woke up with Welsh accent despite never visiting the country has got her old accent back - a YEAR later.
Zoe Coles, 36, developed the new accent overnight in June 2023, but thought it would eventually wear off.
But it didn't and she was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome.
The Welsh accent stayed for more than a year until Zoe woke up four days ago, on July 2, 2024, with her old voice back.
Zoe said she is "disorientated" and doesn't know if her English accent - which Zoe describes as "Kentish" - will stay or her Welsh accent will come back.
Zoe Coles, 36, developed the new accent overnight in June 2023, but thought it would eventually wear off.
But it didn't and she was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome.
The Welsh accent stayed for more than a year until Zoe woke up four days ago, on July 2, 2024, with her old voice back.
Zoe said she is "disorientated" and doesn't know if her English accent - which Zoe describes as "Kentish" - will stay or her Welsh accent will come back.
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00:00I've had my English accent back for three days, and I am so confused.
00:06It hasn't come back slurred or stuttered.
00:09It's come back quite normal.
00:11The only thing I'm having to do is really concentrate on how I'm speaking and what I'm
00:16saying.
00:19I feel like I'm holding my mouth different.
00:23It's just really strange for me at the moment.
00:26And I know a lot of you watching this will say, I don't know what your problem is, it's
00:30just an accent.
00:31It's so much more than just an accent, and trying to get people to understand that is
00:37really difficult.
00:39I mean, I don't know how to even begin.
00:43I spent my whole life with a voice.
00:47That voice changed.
00:49I then spent 13 months with a Welsh accent, and I accepted that, and I had to adapt to
00:57that, and now it's gone again.
01:03I don't know what my next thing is.
01:06I don't know whether my voice...
01:09I just want to be...
01:11I just want to have a voice that stays that voice so that it isn't hurting my brain.
01:18It's just hurting my head because I don't know whether I'm coming or going, and it's
01:24actually really difficult to speak in different accents, and unless you've had it, I can't
01:30explain it to you.
01:32So now I've just got to go through the motions, I guess, wait and see what happens.
01:38Is the English going to stay?
01:39Is the Welsh going to come back?
01:40Am I going to speak with a different accent?
01:43Who knows?
01:46Nobody can give me any answers regarding the accent change, so it really is a case of wait
01:55and see.