A press released landed in the old emailbox a few days ago letting me know that the "Western accent," which is supposedly what most people in Oregon talk with, was voted North America's third-most ...

SALEM, Ore. - Karen Butler has a British-sounding accent, but she's never been to Europe. She woke up from dental surgery one day talking funny. A year and a half later her "foreign" accent remains, ...

SALEM, Ore.(AP) — Karen Butler has a British-sounding accent, but she’s never been to Europe. She woke up from dental surgery one day talking funny. A year and a half later her “foreign” accent ...

An Oregon granny says she awoke from dental surgery minus most of her teeth but with a British accent. “I don’t feel different inside at all. I’m the same old me I ever was,” said Karen Butler, 56, of ...

PORTLAND A Newport, Ore. woman who underwent oral surgery a year ago is still living with an unexpected side-effect. She now has a British accent. I sounded like I was from Transylvania, Karen Butler ...

Is there such a thing as a Portland, Oregon accent? Fred Armisen, costar and co-creator of “Portlandia,” thinks so, as he demonstrated on Conan O’Brien’s TBS show Thursday night. Sitting down for an ...

SALEM, Ore. -- Karen Butler has a British-sounding accent, but she's never been to Europe. She woke up from dental surgery one day talking funny. A year and a half later her "foreign" accent remains, ...