Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: September 22

September 22

1990: Steven Woodmore sets a new (though not uncontroversial) world record in speed talking. On the British TV show Motor Mouth he recites a piece of the “to be or not to be” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in 56,01 seconds, yielding an average rate of 637,4 words per minute.

Steven Woodmore in action:


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