Texas Woman Undergoes Jaw Surgery, Wakes Up with British Accent
Lisa Alamia underwent jaw surgery for an overbite just before Christmas of 2015. But when the Texas-born and raised mother of three woke up, she had a British accent.
Her husband, Richard, noticed that his wife was sounding unlike her usual self and asked her doctor if the accent would go away. The doctor assured the couple that within a couple of weeks, she’d regain her normal speech patterns, but that didn’t happen. Lisa still speaks with an English accent that baffles many people where she lives.
Alamia says of the confusion she causes:
