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He said that, as all the participants were college students, it was possible that older age groups would behave differently, though he thought it unlikely. “It might be that once guys get to 30 or 40 they run out of things to say,” he said. “But I don’t think so.”

The stereotype, Professor Pennebaker said, might result from differences in what men and women said, and when they said it. “We do have evidence that women use many more personal pronouns, such as he, she and I, while men use more articles — a, an and the,” he said. “That suggests women are talking about people and men are talking about things.

“There’s also literature that suggests when there is marital conflict men tend to clam up and women tend to talk a lot.”

Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”) has 114 words. Below are the times it would take these celebrities to read it aloud. Why don’t you try?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate./ Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,/ And summer's lease hath all too short a date./ Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,/ And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;/ And every fair from fair sometime declines,/ By chance or nature's changing course untrimm’d;/ But thy eternal summer shall not fade/ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;/ Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,/ When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:/ So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

39.3 seconds
David Beckham speaks at 174 words per minute

20.7
Vicky Pollard (Matt Lucas) speaks at 330 words per minute

44.7
Dame Helen Mirren speaks at 153 words per minute

61.2
Sir Winston Churchill spoke at 111 words per minute

32.6
Fearne Cotton speaks at 210 words per minute

62
John F. Kennedy spoke at 110 words per minute

43.8
Katie Hopkins (of The Apprentice) speaks at 156 wpm

28.7
Peter O’Sullevan (commentator) speaks at 238 words per minute

40.5
J. K. Rowling speaks at 169 words per minute

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