Southerners love to talk and that includes Mississippians who love to tell stories. A new study conducted by online learning platform Preply has determined it might take Mississippians a bit longer to ...

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this story misidentified the state named by Preply as having the slowest talkers. Speech differs greatly throughout the U.S., including how ...

Quick, finish what you were saying so you can read this story. It shouldn’t take long, if you’re an Oregonian. No need for me to wait. According to a report from The Preply, Portland is the ...

Contrary to stereotypes of quick-speaking East Coast city slickers, Minnesota is the fastest-talking state at 5.34 syllables per second, according to a study from language learning platform Preply.

South Carolinians speak slower in general than most other Americans, a linguistic study shows. South Carolina ranked as the second slowest-talking state in an analysis by Preply, an online language ...

The Southern drawl sounds to some like a slow, drawn out way of talking, and not the melodic cadence we all know it to be. According to an analysis by the language learning website Preply, however, it ...

A national study revealed that Louisiana is the slowest-talking state in America. Preply, a learning platform, compiled a ranking of the fastest, slowest and most talkative states. Louisiana is the ...

According to language learning platform, Preply, South Carolina is the second slowest-talking state in America, averaging 4.80 syllables per second. Louisiana is the slowest-talking state , averaging ...