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How Your Gender Affects Your Vocabulary,Sister Emanuelle and Other News

By Dan Piepenbring

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Hans Thoma, Adam and Eve, 1897.

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  • Some words that men are likelier to know than women: claymore, scimitar, solenoid, dreadnaught. Some words that women are likelier to know than men: taffeta, flouncing, bodice, progesterone. The conclusions are yours to draw.
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