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
Self-mention hedges	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