Karen Butler.mp4

Karen Butler, a 56-year-old woman in Oregon, came out of dental surgery at the end of 2009 speaking with a thick and foreign accent. Today, a year and a half later, she sounds vaguely British -- still. She was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome, a condition so rare that only about 60 cases have been documented since the 1900s.

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• foreign accent syndrome
• karen butler
• oregon
• newport
• oregonian medicine health

[Hairmakeupman]

I hear Irish, some British, Romanian, Zsa Gabor, Australian, and Swedish.

[stampersim]

Who gets dentures with a big gap in the front? LOL

[bexcpfc]

She actually sounds South African not English.

[bladebart]

@jbjaguar No Scotland is not in England it's part of the uk but is considered separate they don't have all the same laws as us and no they don't have a british accent it's a Scottish accent. The 2 accents sound quite different even just 10 miles apart. :-) but it is a very strang condition isn't it?? Must be weird having to cope with that one. I wonder if her accent changed to British after this was filmed.

[jbjaguar]

@ReneeMauriceOriginal

Scotland is in Britain, you can't have a Scottish accent without having a British accent. You might have an English accent. This woman however doesn't have anything slightly resembling a British accent. It's somewhere in between Swedish and Australian I would say.

[Wh3tst0nE]

@r4di0tune1 lol, wtf is wrong with you, you're harboring such rage... jelly much?

[Wh3tst0nE]

@Sesquipedaliantique no, that never happened. wasn't really fluent french, it was fake french, google it.

[frymahhide1982]

@ReneeMauriceOriginal yeah it reminds me of an Aberdonian (sp) accent.

[chrisgolka]

shes fuckin making this up how stupid

[alwaysmesince1992]

oh i love her, she's so cool =)

[abramhb]

any Europeans out there recognizes this accent?

[ScottBeTrollin]

It has the accent of someone english but every now and then she slips up and speaks like an immigrant :P