{"id":4000,"date":"2020-03-11T00:09:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T00:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2020-03-11T00:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T00:09:57","slug":"womens-words-mens-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/womens-words-mens-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s words, Men&#8217;s words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are there such things as women&#8217;s words and men&#8217;s words? An article I read in <em>Stanford Magazine<\/em> recently about children&#8217;s language development got me curious. I have found some books irritatingly &#8220;chick lit&#8221; in nature, usually relating to the frequent use of long fashion and makeup descriptions for the characters. I decided to see if I could measure this. Consider the following illustration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4001 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/M-F-graph-467x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/M-F-graph-467x300.jpg 467w, https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/M-F-graph-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/M-F-graph-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/M-F-graph-624x401.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/M-F-graph.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have access to the full texts of modern novels, so I decided to take public domain works from both men and women authors from gutenberg.org and total the words used by each. I didn&#8217;t want to be comparing different genres, so I chose four mysteries by women and four by men (list below). For some of the longest ones, I took only a section of the book roughly equal in size to the average of the other books, so that the weights should not be skewed heavily by a single book. For each word I measured what percentage of the total words in the male authors&#8217; books it represented; then I did the same for the women authors. I then compared the men&#8217;s percentage to the women&#8217;s percentage and graphed the results as shown above. The words on the right (blue) side were used more often by men and the left (pink) side more often by the women authors. Bear in mind these books are quite old and surely do not represent modern views about women&#8217;s roles, but they are interesting. The words shown in the graphic are selected purely as illustration. The complete list is given below, and includes every word that appears at least five times in the women&#8217;s combined and five in the men&#8217;s combined novels. Names of persons and places have been ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The blue section represents the percentage of appearances of a word that were by the male writers. The most male-leaning word,<em> brother<\/em>, was used nine times as often men as by women. The line thus shows it connected to the 90% mark. The most female-leaning word was <em>Mrs<\/em>., for which 13% of the uses were by the men and 87% by women when normalized. Gender-related words tended to skew toward the writers of the same gender, although that wasn&#8217;t completely consistent. One might object on the grounds that this tendency is only because of the characters in the books, but that&#8217;s rather the point: women populate their novels with more female characters than men do, and have them more central to the story. What I find more interesting are the non-gender related words that skew heavily. Why, for example, is <em>our<\/em> the second most male-skewed word? That was consistent with all the male writers and female writers. And why <em>everything<\/em> the third-most female skewed? As the graphic shows, the words <em>be<\/em> and <em>rose<\/em> were used almost exactly equally by the men and women. I didn&#8217;t check to see if <em>rose<\/em> referred more to the verb or the noun.<\/p>\n<p>The four male books were <em>The Red House Mystery<\/em>, by A.A. Milne (1922), <em>The Man Who was Thursday<\/em> by G.K. Chesterton (1908), <em>The Sign of Four<\/em>, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890), and <em>The Woman in White <\/em>by Wilkie Collins (1869). The women&#8217;s were <em>Whose Body?<\/em> by Dorothy Sayers (1923), <em>The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow<\/em> by Margaret Oliphant (1890), <em>The Mysterious Affair at Styles<\/em> by Agatha Christie (1916), and <em>The Circular Staircase<\/em> by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1907).<\/p>\n<p>The list of words is ordered with the most male-used at the top and most female-used at the bottom. Everything before the word <em>be<\/em> was used more by men and below by women.<\/p>\n<p>brother<br \/>\nlondon<br \/>\nour<br \/>\ncannot<br \/>\nroad<br \/>\nstreet<br \/>\nfather<br \/>\npaper<br \/>\nalso<br \/>\nblue<br \/>\nsecret<br \/>\nred<br \/>\npolice<br \/>\nspoke<br \/>\ncumberland<br \/>\nbecome<br \/>\nunderstand<br \/>\narrived<br \/>\npapa<br \/>\ninstant<br \/>\nwomen<br \/>\ntruth<br \/>\nsister<br \/>\nsilence<br \/>\nbeard<br \/>\nquestions<br \/>\nopposite<br \/>\nordinary<br \/>\nquestion<br \/>\nhigh<br \/>\nhuman<br \/>\nmyself<br \/>\nalready<br \/>\npapers<br \/>\nfeet<br \/>\nshot<br \/>\nnearly<br \/>\nrapidly<br \/>\nworld<br \/>\nhardly<br \/>\nstrange<br \/>\nsense<br \/>\nanswer<br \/>\nwall<br \/>\nleast<br \/>\nheard<br \/>\nletters<br \/>\nlow<br \/>\nopinion<br \/>\nrepeated<br \/>\nmaster<br \/>\nmeeting<br \/>\nfear<br \/>\nthoughtfully<br \/>\nset<br \/>\nword<br \/>\nmen<br \/>\nfour<br \/>\nglad<br \/>\ncomes<br \/>\nfaces<br \/>\nchance<br 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\/>\nherself<br \/>\nchildren<br \/>\nsound<br \/>\nfire<br \/>\nbed<br \/>\neverything<br \/>\ngirl<br \/>\nmrs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there such things as women&#8217;s words and men&#8217;s words? An article I read in Stanford Magazine recently about children&#8217;s language development got me curious. I have found some books irritatingly &#8220;chick lit&#8221; in nature, usually relating to the frequent use of long fashion and makeup descriptions for the characters. 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