Article: SEX ON THE BRAIN WOMEN USE 20,000 WORDS A DAY, MEN ONLY 7,000 - OR SO SAYS A NEW BESTSELLER. FACT-CHECKING "THE FEMALE BRAIN."

EXPERTS TELL US the Eskimos have about four dozen words for snow. Or is it 200? Or seven? Or maybe four? Here's a hint: It's roughly the same number as in English. And here's another hint: Most of the people who throw Eskimo snow-word numbers around don't know anything about it, and haven't bothered to look it up. It's easy to see how funky numbers about an exotic language can turn into an urban legend. But it might surprise you to find apparently authoritative sources doing the same thing with basic facts about your own language use.Here's one example: Over the last 15 years, a series of books and articles have told us that women talk a lot more than men do. According to Dr. ...

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