Researchers say the average woman speaks 20,000 words a day, and the average man speaks 7,000.
Apparently, the Foxp2 protein is implicated.
So we may now have an answer to this wry question from Austin O’Malley: “Why is the word tongue feminine in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French and German?”
And this intriguing study of male/female brain differences: “In women most of the connections go between left and right across the two hemispheres while in men most of the connections go between the front and the back of the brain.”
“Because the female connections link the left hemisphere, which is associated with logical thinking, with the right, which is linked with intuition, this could help to explain why women tend to do better than men at intuitive tasks.”