The accent transplant: Brain surgery leaves Yorkshire boy speaking like the Queen
‘With her nine-year-old son William lying desperately ill in hospital following emergency brain surgery, Ruth McCartney-Moore prayed that she would one day hear his voice again.
But when he did speak weeks later, she was in for a shock.
He had lost his strong Yorkshire accent and was now speaking the Queen’s English.
“We noticed that he had started to elongate his vowels in words like ‘bath’ which he never did before,” said Mrs McCartney-Moore, 45, a music teacher from York.
“He no longer has short vowel sounds – they are all long. It’s bizarre.”‘
