text_combined: sum love lovely several weeks ago sent following questionnaire expressions love lovely specifically terms genderlinked difference please tick english variety american english speaker british english speaker others please describe variety speak sex male female age 20 2030 3040 4050 5060 60 please read following expressions put parenthesis number 1 think expression still preferred women 2 think used preferred women preference less less preference sexes 3 feel preference far know expressions love response would like come party b love response would like dance c love see act hamlet love come us e lovely view f lovely dinner time g lovely warm h nt lovely day received 32 replies would like thank took time give information including lot comments intuitions although cant list names limited space summary first must admit respondents claim type survey dangerous methodological point view people nt speak think however also think kind survey least shows perceive certain expressions think important meaningful study certain expressions following table shows numbers people according responses expression sexes table nt include whose variety english neither british american think number respondens 5 small make proper judgement true results british speakers number also 5 include information thus following analysis deal american english 1 2 3 brit brit brit f f f f f f 1 3 2 0 4 4 0 1 6 5 1 1 b 6 6 2 1 2 2 0 0 3 4 1 1 c 3 3 2 0 2 1 0 0 6 8 1 2 5 6 3 2 2 3 0 0 3 3 1 0 e 6 5 1 0 2 5 1 1 3 1 1 1 f 8 8 1 1 1 2 0 1 2 2 2 1 g 9 6 2 0 0 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 h 7 6 0 0 2 1 2 0 2 4 1 1 great difference among respondents quite difficult generalize sexual preference decisive way example respondents nt see genderlinked difference think expressions preferred women also admit strict statistical point view may give strong judgement data despite limitations safe say data suggests least following tendencies 1 expression c thought preferred particularly women may changed usage 2 expression b thought preferred women however many respondents point reason expression b preferred women linguistic pragmatic still customary men ask women dance 3 expressions e h lovely people think preferred women 4 little difference male respondents female respondents perception expressions 5 noteworthy number people feel change sexual preference expressions respondents point may difference american english british english concerning expressions although give judgement point small number british english speaking respondents mentioned addition respondents suggest may difference age groups pursue points survey thanks contributions junichi murata dept english kobe city univ foreign studies junichi murata kobe city university foreign studies