Brain surgery patient wakes with Irish accent

[UM-Bot]

A man from Yorkshire who underwent brain surgery and spent three days on life support following a ruptured blood vessel awoke in a hospital bed and started speaking and singing in a strong Irish accent.

"A Yorkshire man woke up from brain surgery to find he'd turned from a flat vowelled, thrifty dalesman into a blarney kissing, 'Danny Boy' singing, happy-go-lucky Dubliner. The Daily Mail reports that 30 year old Chris Gregory spent three days on life support, after a blood vessel in his brain ruptured."

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[schizoidwoman]

That reminded me of this article.

[Shuriken]

by tempering "in blind" with a machine we yet don't understand they must have triggered the wrong plugin...

[louie]

Im from dublin

we are not that happy go lucky an we dont sing dany boy or any of that other tourist sterotype rubbish.

now when he starts drinking heavely, telling jokes and fighting he may be getting close.

[BiffSplitkins]

Im from dublin

we are not that happy go lucky an we dont sing dany boy or any of that other tourist sterotype rubbish.

now when he starts drinking heavely, telling jokes and fighting he may be getting close.

What!?!?! OMG the next news you will depress me with is telling me you don't have little leprechauns running around in every yard trying to hide their pot of gold.

[louie]

What!?!?! OMG the next news you will depress me with is telling me you don't have little leprechauns running around in every yard trying to hide their pot of gold.

We used to but we shot the little ****wits an took thier money an spent ot on booze, smoke an women.

[coolpolitealex]

A man from Yorkshire who underwent brain surgery and spent three days on life support following a ruptured blood vessel awoke in a hospital bed and started speaking and singing in a strong Irish accent.

"A Yorkshire man woke up from brain surgery to find he'd turned from a flat vowelled, thrifty dalesman into a blarney kissing, 'Danny Boy' singing, happy-go-lucky Dubliner. The Daily Mail reports that 30 year old Chris Gregory spent three days on life support, after a blood vessel in his brain ruptured."

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Apart from the humorous side it's really a very interesting thing this brain of ours and i am going to do some research on it because i am interested in all brain curiosities at the moment due some problems myself.

[WoIverine]

We used to but we shot the little ****wits an took thier money an spent ot on booze, smoke an women.

Hell yeah! I wanna be Irish too. Bout 25% Irish at the moment, least I got some of the good stuff in me!

[Cristina1]

actually its not all amazing as you might think. I mean languages and accents is what? its just different way of blowing air out of our mouths and tongue positions. Due to the coma he probably had a tiny bit of brain damage and now he blows air/positions his tongue differently making him sound Irish.

[chaoszerg]

Brain surgery patient wakes with Irish accent

Poor guy.

Edited April 29, 2009 by chaoszerg

[BiffSplitkins]

Poor guy.

It could have been worse, he could have woke up speaking jive.

[schizoidwoman]

It could have been worse, he could have woke up speaking jive.

You're right, that would be worse!

[WoIverine]

It could have been worse, he could have woke up speaking jive.

Jive? LOLOL, definitely couldve been worse than irish.

[ExpandMyMind]

Im from dublin

we are not that happy go lucky an we dont sing dany boy or any of that other tourist sterotype rubbish.

now when he starts drinking heavely, telling jokes and fighting he may be getting close.

[xris]

I heard he had a blarney stone removed..and his Ok now.

[Cryptid_Control]

aha thats funny

[Benz]

Poor guy.

my thoughts exactly

[DrawingPics]

Will they do another operation to get him to be ok?

[schizoidwoman]

Will they do another operation to get him to be ok?

I don't think it's something you can change back with an operation so I imagine he would need to be coached back into this original accent; perhaps a speech therapist or even a dialect coach!