22 Hard-To-Detect Illnesses, From The Commonplace To The Truly Bizarre

19. Foreign Accent Syndrome

Usually resulting from a stroke, Foreign Accent Syndrome is a medical condition which causes patients to develop speech patterns that are different than their native accent, without having done anything to acquire their new dialect. Discovered in 1907, the most famous case of this disease is when the singer George Michael woke up from a coma in 2012 and claimed he was now speaking in a West Country accent.