With regards to politeness, there are two things that are of great significance in indicating the level of politeness: compliments and apologies. In both the aspects of compliments and apologies, women definitely hold their flag much high than men. In a study conducted by Janet Holmes (1995) on the levels of politeness amongst men and women, what was found was that “women give 70% of compliments and receive about 75% of them; compliments between men are rare- less than 10%” (Jule, 2008, p. 83). She further presents a study conducted between New Zealand men and women in regards to who apologizes most and what Holmes’s data relates is that “apologies were more frequent between and amongst women” typically around 58% compared to only 8% amongst men (1995, p. 157). However, “the number of apologies between women and men is remarkably evenly distributed” close to the 20% mark (1995, p. 159). As an explanation to this, Holmes offers that women might consider explicit apologies for offences as more important in maintaining relationships than men do which may also be why women tend to be more polite, aware of their surroundings and status than men. In conclusion, as Holmes points out; it is not always this way, not all women speak in the way describes above i.e. using hedges, super polite forms, tag questions, standard language, hypercorrect grammar etc…. This is the general view of linguists that has been established after a wide range of studies and this is what outlines such patterns in the styles of gendered language. However, this does not mean that women do not have an abrasive, challenging and antagonistic speech style, some of them do but then they are considered to have adopted a ‘masculine’ style of talking and thus, they are placed under the category of exceptions. Nonetheless, these exceptions exist as a minority and the general pattern in women’s and men’s speech is the one described above and the one that is observed and accepted by several linguists of this field.>