A resident of the English village of Aintree, Merseyside, acquired a Scottish accent after battling COVID-19 for 11 weeks, reports the Liverpool Echo newspaper.
On October 5, 46-year-old Wayne Oldham was admitted to the hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus. Due to complications, he was put into an artificial coma and connected to a ventilator. “When I woke up, I was like a madman. I spoke with a Scottish accent, – recalls the Englishman. – I could not move anything, only my head a little. I was paralyzed.”
According to his wife Louise, who phoned him on Facetime, Oldham came out of his coma and began to rave. “He accused me of not visiting him for ten weeks, and then he said he was going to run away and become a milkman,” she recalls. “And then he took off his mask and spoke with that strange accent. It was like a Scottish accent.” /
On December 21, Oldham was discharged from the hospital. He then worked with a physical therapist and learned to walk again after spending six weeks in drug-induced sleep.
Earlier it was reported that a resident of the English county of Essex was numb for several months, and then acquired four different accents. Doctors have determined that it is foreign accent syndrome, which leads to brain damage. She now speaks with Eastern European, French, Italian and Russian accents.