When parents have been asked to describe their 24-hour old infants, they have done so using gender-stereotypic language: boys are describes as strong, alert and coordinated and girls as tiny, soft and delicate.
In the mid-60s, Angélil and Pierre Labelle co-founded Les Baronets, a French-language boy band known for Beatles covers.
So much of our body language, between boy and girl or man and woman, is based on our pelvis.
This latest shock story of a 43% speeding rise is couched in the language of boy racers, Mr Toads, inveterate nose-thumbers at the law.
Melania Trump has dismissed her husband's sexually aggressive language as "boy talk", insisting his remarks do not reflect "the man I know", and said she does not believe that he has assaulted any women.
Finally he belches back, and for a moment the universal language of boys prevails.
Girls fight a lot in language, but boys keep it all inside.
Meanwhile, at birth, the left hemisphere of the female brain is relatively larger than the right; which suggests that girls are more prepared to learn language, whereas boys may be somewhat more spatially skilled.
Anglophenia: Best of British revivals From ancient languages to boy bands, these British cultural artefacts fell out of favour, but were rescued from history's bin.
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Ninety-four children with English as their first language (47 boys, age M=8y 5 m, SD= 7.97 m) with standard scores at or below the 15th centile on both screening measures were identified as having low WM.
