Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after waking up with 'posh

Thu Sep 20 14:26:02 UTC 2007

Only the dead have no dialect.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at HOTMAIL.COM>

Date:         Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:56:23
To:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject:      Re: [ADS-L] Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after
              waking up
              with 'posh

>So he's hit on the head and starts speaking "no dialect" English.

I wish I could have no dialect. What would that sound like......

Scot
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:49:49 +0000> From: truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after waking up with 'posh> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>> Poster: Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>> Subject: Re: Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after waking up> with 'posh> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > So he's hit on the head and starts speaking "no dialect" English, which he struggled to pronounce before. Where do you hit them and how hard to get rid of the dialect. ;)> > Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+> See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.> > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:45:58 -0700> > From: wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> > Subject: Re: Fwd: Vowel surgery: brain op boy ba!
 ffles doctors after waking up with 'posh' RP accent> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> >> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------> > Sender: American Dialect Society> > Poster: Jonathan Lighter> > Subject: Re: Fwd: Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after waking> > up with 'posh' RP accent> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > I'll see your posh accent and raise you native fluency:> >> > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=481651&in_page_id=1770> >> > Students of art and literature will recall that Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee was transported to Camelot by means of a clonk to the head. And when Stan Laurel was hit on the noggin in "A Chump at Oxford" (1940), he became the very posh and very brilliant Lord Paddington.> >> > So such cases boast strong precedent in farce and fantasy.> >> > One trusts that acceptable corroboration will soo!
 n be forthcoming in regard to both real-life incidents.> >> > JL> >> >

James Harbeck wrote:> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------> > Sender: American Dialect Society> > Poster: James Harbeck> > Subject: Fwd: Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after waking up> > with 'posh' RP accent> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=HXRW04DD4CJMZQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/09/18/nvoice118.xml> >> > Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after waking up with 'posh'> > RP accent> > By Laura Clout> > Last Updated: 2:31am BST 18/09/2007> >> > A ten-year-old boy who underwent life-saving brain surgery has> > astonished doctors by emerging with a different accent.> >> > William McCartney-Moore fell seriously ill with a rare strain of> > meningitis last March and had an operation to remove fluid on his> > brain.> >> > But in the weeks since his treatment, William, from York, has lost> > his north!
 ern twang and acquired the elongated vowels of received> > pronunciation (RP).> >> > His mother, Ruth McCartney-Moore, said: "He survived the operation> > and the most amazing thing is that he came out of surgery with a> > completely different accent."> >> > The family first noticed the change in William's accent after he left> > hospital in April: "We went on a family holiday to Northumberland and> > he was playing on the beach and he said 'Look, I've made a sand> > castle' but really stretched the vowels, which made him sound really> > posh."> >> > "We all just stared back at him - we couldn't believe what we had> > heard because he had a northern accent before his illness. He had no> > idea why we were staring at him - he just thought he was speaking> > normally."> >> > William's illness began with a headache and a high temperature, she> > said. "A few days later he had a massive seizure."> >> > William was rushed to hospital and doctors found he had meningitis> > and em!
 pyema - or pus on the brain - and he was operated on.> >> > Mrs McCart
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ey-Moore, 45, a music teacher said: "All the doctors and> > surgeons thought he was going to die. Before he went in I cut off a> > lock of his hair to keep.> >> > "He lost everything. He couldn't read or write, he couldn't recognise> > things and he'd lost all his social skills."> >> > But 18 months on, William has made a near-total recovery.> >> > His mother added: "It's bizarre, but I think it has worked in his> > favour because we all smile when he does it and it has brought a bit> > of humour into the situation."> >> > Phil Edge, the head of therapy services for international charity> > Brainwave, said it is rare for a child to change accents after> > surgery.> >> > "Some people believe . that the [brain] cells that are damaged can't> > be replaced and other cells take over - so here he has re-learned how> > to speak with a different accent.> >> > "It is not very common, I have worked here 20 years and can't think> > of an instance where a child has spoken with a differe!
 nt accent after> > surgery."> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------> > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org> >_________________________________________________________________> Can you find the hidden words? Take a break and play Seekadoo!> http://club.live.com/seekadoo.aspx?icid=seek_wlmailtextlink> > ------------------------------------------------------------> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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