ded by women's movement activities; i.e. developing birthing centres etc. These examples are merely a few of the multitudes of changes that have occurred.
             Trask (1995) has pointed out that the utilisation of language differs with gender. For instance, women have more of a tendency to use finer discriminations than men do in some areas such as colour terms. Women would be more at ease using the labels 'crimson', 'ecru', or 'beige', than men and men would be found to use the simpler version: "It's blue, not cornflower; what the hell is cornflower" (my dad when looking at paint.) Trask also noted that men have a tendency to drop more expletives into a conversation than women, although some women do swear, especially younger females (just sit in a student common lounge for a while to back this up); which is becoming worringly commonplace.
             Jeperson,an early linguist, included a chapter on 'The woman' in his book "Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin" (1922). He claims that the women's contribution to the language is to maintain its purity, caused by the way they shrink from coarseness and vulgarity. ( A totally outmoded theory.):
             There can be no doubt that women excersise a great and universal
             influence on linguistic development through their instinctive
             shrinking from coarse and vulgar expressions and their preference
             for refined, and (in certain spheres) veiled and indirect expression.
             He does maintain, however, that it is men's language which is endowed with vigour, imagination and creativity. Without it, he states, 'there is a danger of the language becoming languid and insipid. He goes on to claim that women have a smaller vocabulary than men and that which they do have they tend to misuse. As examples he quotes that women use intensifying adverbs 'with disregard of their proper meaning, as in the German 'riesig kl...