A Suffolk town crier is certified as the world's loudest woman with a 105.9-decibel 'oyez'
Guinness tells how she got the job: her daughter said she could shout "chips" from one café and be heard at another a mile and a half away.
Brenda Willison, a town crier in Newmarket, Suffolk, England, now holds two Guinness World Records titles: loudest town crier (female) and loudest shout by an individual (female), Guinness World Records announced. On Sept. 9 she cried "oyez" at 105.9 dB (C-weighted), which Guinness compares to standing next to a snowblower or a blasting car horn. She said she had a cold and expects she can get louder.
She has been a town crier since 1987, when the Peterborough paper advertised for one. Unknown to her, her daughter wrote in that if Willison shouted "chips" outside one café at the country park where she worked, people could hear it at the other, a mile and a half away. Since then, Guinness says, she has cried at Buckingham Palace for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday and Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, and at the bridge over the River Kwai in 1995.
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Town crier
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A town crier, or bellman, is an officer of a royal court or public authority who makes public pronouncements as required.
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