ein' (gigantically small), the English 'awfully pretty', and 'terribly nice'..... Danish 'raedsimt morosom' (awfully funny)'. (1922) He claims that women also suffer from an inability to finish sentences and while there is more talk from women there is less substance.
             Talbot assures us that none of these claims were based on evidence but were mere conjecture on Jespersen's part. She goes on to add that the women that he encountered may well have ahd smaller vocabulary than the men, but that women then were often denied the education permitted to most men. She also says that the statement that women talk more is a familiar folklinguistic claim and that there is not a substantuial bodyof evidence to the contrary. She adds that it has been suggested (by Spender 1985, for instance) that the volume of women's talk has not been measured against men's but against silence.
             Perhaps a more controversial issue raised by Trask, is the likelihood for women to drop more tag questions into
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