What women talk about

BBC NEWS:

Researchers in the US have laid waste to the long-held belief that women talk more than men.

But the survey did find that female subjects get through an average of 16,215 words a day, compared with their male counterparts' 15,669, a difference of 546. [Note: this assumes that the college student subjects are representative of men and women more generally.]

So what might those words be? The Magazine has consulted a handful of females, and come up with a few suggestions of words - 46 to be precise (listed below):

Forty-six words women might say, men probably wouldn't:

* Book club: A female dominated affair, perhaps because women read more fiction, or perhaps because men aren't very good at talking about it

* Accessorize: If men were ever to use this word it would only be in the context of cars

* Body image

* Empowering: Men never use this word, perhaps because for the 200,000 years humans have been on the planet, men have had all the power...