Imagine that you invite a friend, a non-native speaker of your own language, round for dinner. While cooking, you get distracted and the food ends up burnt to a crisp. Once the smoke detector stops ...

How you can wake up with a different accent. — -- What if you woke up one day suddenly speaking with a Southern twang or French lilt or British accent? In rare cases this happens to people when a ...

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is an uncommon motor speech disorder characterised by the emergence of an accent perceived as non-native, often following neurological insults such as stroke. Unlike ...

Having an accent in English has long been considered a disadvantage. Many of my clients come to me with concerns that their accented English is a liability to career advancement. Though I am not an ...

It’s time for a break from COVID columns. A new case of a rare syndrome called foreign accent syndrome (FAS) was recently reported in various news services. It was experienced by a 28-year-old ...

Within the S&P 500, only a small fraction of chief executive officers speak with an accent or come from foreign backgrounds. The figure hovers around 10%. However, their share of the market is ...