Winnipeggers average 189 words per minute, fast-talking study says
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Speech pattern analysis from Preply, an online learning space, has rated Winnipeg as Canada's third fastest-talking city, with a whopping 189 words per minute.
The average Winnipegger has a lot to say, according to a new study.
Speech pattern analysis from Preply, an online learning space, has rated Winnipeg as Canada’s third fastest-talking city, with a whopping 189 words per minute coming out of Manitoba mouths.
That’s considerably faster than the national average of 175.
Of Canada’s 10 biggest cities, Winnipeg ranks behind only Ottawa and Edmonton, the nation’s fastest at an incredible 211 words per minute. Provincially, Manitoba comes in second to Alberta in the rapid-speech department.
Preply language expert Sylvia Johnson told 680 CJOB’s The Start that local video was analyzed to come up with the 189-word rate.
“We actually delved into the YouTube data to analyze the speech rate,” Johnson said.
“So what we did is we analyzed the transcripts of the videos from either local news stations or from podcasts. Using this, we were able to calculate the average words said per minute for each city.
“Winnipeg? Pretty speedy.”
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