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Grizlas on September 21 2011 13:39:15
Search a database of 5 million books for statistics on any word or phrase. Quite amazing

Vuzman on September 21 2011 14:06:38
Well, that was unexpected: fuck...

Grizlas on September 21 2011 18:38:10
from wiki:

"Usage statistics from English books, according to Google Ngram Viewer. The spike in the 1700s can be explained by modern OCR technology reading the Latin long s as an f."

Grizlas on September 21 2011 18:54:12
Some words are loosing popularity:
tomfoolery
hatred
love
These ones I found interesting:
war - WW1 and 2 are clearly visible. Might the first spike be the American revolutionary war?
justice - Guess our interest in justice has been waning since the French revolution

and many more..

Check out the TED talk about this for more interesting stats:
http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html

Grizlas on September 21 2011 21:41:06
Slavery..

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Vuzman
26/08/2024 07:45
Try the google search box

Grizlas
24/08/2024 23:30
doubtful

OKJones
24/08/2024 22:08
does the search function even work?

Grizlas
24/12/2023 15:06
Gleðilig jól

Norlander
24/12/2023 10:09
Gleðilig jól!

Norlander
29/10/2023 19:16
:/

Grizlas
29/10/2023 11:35
RIP Matthew Perry.

Norlander
25/08/2023 19:22
That's not from the chess scene, it's Omar to Wee Bay, 2 mins into this clip: https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=LF0Xt6b525E

Vuzman
25/08/2023 18:11
That chess scene is forever seared into my memory...

Norlander
24/08/2023 20:03
You quoting the Wire, wow