When one actually counts the words that men and women utter during the course of day, there isn't much difference as to who talks more - men or women.

And That is what a team of scientists from University of Arizona have found, debunking the age-old myth that women are more talkative than men.

The findings, to be published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, came to the conclusion by placing microphones on 396 college students for periods ranging from two to 10 days.

After sampling their conversations and calculating how many words they used in the course of a day, it revealed that women spoke 16,215 words as compared to men, who said 15,669 per day.

That means there is only the difference of 546 words, which researchers said wasn't "statistically significant." Hence the notion that women don't talk as much as men is now considered as an "urban legend."