{"id":43235,"date":"2014-06-24T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/boy-words-vs-girl-words.html"},"modified":"2014-06-26T07:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:02:26","slug":"boy-words-vs-girl-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/boy-words-vs-girl-words.html","title":{"rendered":"Boy Words vs Girl Words"},"content":{"rendered":"
I'm pleased to say I know the words on both lists. I suspect so does Margie, and I'd lay fairly high odds on Kay. Still, as a broad generation, it's an interesting look at how subculture (presumably what guys talk \/ read about vs what gals talk \/ read about) influences vocabulary (which, in turn, works the other way around, too).\ufeff<\/div>\n

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The Words That Are Most Known to Only Men or Women<\/a>
\n This post first appeared in Business Insider. Most people believe gender influences conversation. Men might discuss cars, while women gab about fashion. As it turns out, there’s some truth to the stereotypes, according to data analysis from the Center for Reading Research, which we saw on \/r\/linguistics.\u00a0 Center director\u00a0Mark Brysbaert\u00a0looked…\n <\/p>\n

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I'm pleased to say I know the words on both lists. I suspect so does Margie, and I'd lay fairly high odds on Kay. Still, as a broad generation, it's an interesting look at how subculture (presumably what guys talk \/ read about vs what gals talk \/ read about) influences vocabulary (which, in turn, … Continue reading “Boy Words vs Girl Words”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,348,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-women","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24496,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/pro-hyphen-vs-antihyphen.html","url_meta":{"origin":43235,"position":0},"title":"Pro-hyphen vs antihyphen","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-11 12:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A very interesting article, for a grammar geek like me. 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