| The accent transplant: Brain surgery leaves Yorkshire boy speaking like the Queen | | Print | |
| 09/19/07 | |
 With her nine-year-old son William lying desperately ill in hospital following emergency brain surgery, Ruth McCartney-Moore prayed that she would one day hear his voice again. But when he did speak weeks later, she was in for a shock. He had lost his strong Yorkshire accent and was now speaking the Queen's English. "We noticed that he had started to elongate his vowels in words like 'bath' which he never did before," said Mrs McCartney-Moore, 45, a music teacher from York. "He no longer has short vowel sounds - they are all long. It's bizarre." William was taken to hospital after suffering a fit in March last year. "It all began with a headache," said Mrs McCartney-Moore, whose husband Barry is an IT consultant. "William said his head really hurt above one eye and he had a high temperature. "There was a bug going around school, so my husband and I didn't think it was any more than that. But a few days later he had a massive seizure." Source - This is London
              |
