category | male use words (top 3) | Frequency (normalized per 10,000) | female use words (top 3) | Frequency (normalized per 10,000) |
Approximative hedges | about | 53.90 | about | 37.19 |
around | 6.30 | maybe | 11.32 | |
perhaps | 6.30 | sometimes | 8.89 | |
Self-mention hedges | I think | 9.10 | I think | 4.85 |
I believe | 5.60 | I believe | 1.62 | |
Evidential verb hedges | seem(s)(ed)(ing) | 4.90 | seem(s)(ed)(ing) | 2.43 |
it seems | 2.10 | suggest(s)(ed) | 1.62 | |
suggest(s) (ed) | 0.70 | indication (s) | 0.81 | |
Model verbs | can | 74.19 | can | 45.27 |
could | 15.40 | might | 29.10 | |
may | 8.40 | could | 12.13 |