This is pretty cool.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:42 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=gangsta,gangster&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
NY Times discusses.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:50 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=zounds,jeez&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)
haha. a long period there when no one quite knew what word to use to expressed the jeez/zounds sentiment.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)
express*
I like that "zounds" is on the upswing, though!
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:59 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=never,gonna,+give,you,up&year_start=1500&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=0
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:57 (fifteen years ago)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/history_of_fbombs.jpg
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)
damn ilx image smashing
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=dawg&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)
^Try setting your end date on that one to 2008.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=racist,sexist&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)
good lord, we're exceeding 1940s level of dawgitude
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)
this is so cool and wow what a development for corpus linguistics !!
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=lucifer,satan&corpus=0&smoothing=4&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:09 (fifteen years ago)
Shit, I forgot to capitalize Lucifer and Satan, the graph actually looks like this:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Lucifer,Satan&corpus=0&smoothing=4&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)
i'll confess that the first thing i tried was 'fuck' too. interesting that it died between 1800 and 1820, anyone know why that was?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:13 (fifteen years ago)
untimely death of king fuck IV
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:19 (fifteen years ago)
:''(.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:22 (fifteen years ago)
is that the emoticon for half-choctaw?
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:23 (fifteen years ago)
this thing is too awesome
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=ale,lager,beer&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:36 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=heterosexual,homosexual,bisexual&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=elvis,beatles&year_start=1960&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:43 (fifteen years ago)
How are you guys doing that?
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:44 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=elvis,beatles&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1960&year_end=2000
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)
gotcha!
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=hipster,hippie,yuppie,yippie&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)
aaah, that makes more sense.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Elvis,Beatles&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1960&year_end=2000
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:46 (fifteen years ago)
http://i52.tinypic.com/oh5mkj.jpg
― zvookster, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=bourgeoisie,middle%20class,Engels,proletariat&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=yikes,yipes&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:54 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=internet&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3early 1900's internet?
― I spilled, saucer-eyed, into the Tonetta fanclub underground. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)
That seems strange.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=groovy&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:57 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=heroin,cocaine,marijuana&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=%22It%20was%20the%20best%20of%20times%22&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
Does that mean that this phrase has appeared in NO BOOKS EVER?
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:59 (fifteen years ago)
I don't think it takes phrases longer than five words.http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=chasing%20the%20dragon&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)
Did a pre-1950 search for "internet" on Google Books and got a lot of results - a handful of date errors, but mainly a variety of OCR cockups (internal, internat., interest, etc)
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)
every word i'm trying takes a measurable jump in 1960... wonder if that's the words i'm picking or something about how this thing works...
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)
No 60s jump here!http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=fie&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)
Most words I try have a big jump at the end of the graph, which I guess is because they have a lot more post-2005 books scanned than pre-2005, and the y value is as a % of the corpus rather than a % of the content from that year. Dunno if something similar would be true for 1960, though.
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)
Huh, it was well past its prime in 1800:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fie&year_start=1600&year_end=1850&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)
(That was all speculation - I don't know how the scale works at all.)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=avast&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
or here!
xps
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)
wo 1600? how far back does this thing go?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Abraham%20Lincoln,George%20Washington,Thomas%20Jefferson,Theodore%20Roosevelt&corpus=0&smoothing=6&year_start=1775&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)
Many more books are published in modern years. Doesn't this skew the results?
It would if we didn't normalize by the number of books published in each year.
fucking smartasses over here
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)
poor teddy
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=smut,erotica,pornography,obscenity&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=methinks&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1600&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=goddam,goddamn&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008Huh
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=mother%2Cjugs%2Cspeed&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Rhodesia,Zimbabwe&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=crap,shit,poop&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
RIP poop.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=choking%20the%20chicken&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)
Also it looks like some long-running periodicals and series of official papers are in the database under the first year they came out. So "Nation's Business" published by the Chamber of Commerce (USA) started in 1912 and now regularly mentions the internet, which is at least one point for "internet" in 1912, possibly more.
This probably still doesn't outweigh the OCR errors, though.
Don't mind me, I do database/digitisation stuff for a library, being geeky about this kind of crap is what I do.
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=motherfucker,cad&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
made it, maw.
(please note that i'm not capable of using this with the slightest hint of maturity.)
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5269461884_b9ca497818_b.jpg
― Stevie T, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
wow!
http://books.google.com/books?id=wS8nAQAAIAAJ&q=%22motherfucker%22&dq=%22motherfucker%22&hl=en&ei=r7YLTeD7E8SinQe08437DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=tastes+great%2Cless+filling&year_start=1800&year_end=2010&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=pestilence,typhus,plague&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1600&year_end=2008
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=dreamboat,heartthrob,studmuffin,beefcake&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1920&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=science,religion&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― sugg knight (cozen), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=alternative rock,indie rock&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1975&year_end=1995
― Auto Mall Maniac (kkvgz), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Aristotle%2CPlato&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
it's too close to call.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=soccer%20mom,hockey%20mom&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1990&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)
um where'd me image go xpost.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Aristotle,Plato&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
to be fair, I searched in google books and the first few results were about mining and climbing, but "alternative rock" starts to be used to describe music in the late 70s.
― Auto Mall Maniac (kkvgz), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)
(Hockey mom vs. soccer mom will probably be a little more interesting once post-2008 books are included.)
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=God%20is%20great,God%20is%20dead&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=crap,shit&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)
Ah crap, someone's already done that. Shit. And they threw in 'poop' for good measure.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:26 (fifteen years ago)
Btw, you guys, you can also specify "American English," "British English," and "English Fiction." (The Baby Name Wizard blog has been toying around with the latter to examine popularity of character names over time.)
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:26 (fifteen years ago)
great minds and all, snoball.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Homer%20Simpson,Fred%20Flintstone&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1960&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:31 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=rock and roll,hip hop&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1830&year_end=1930
― Auto Mall Maniac (kkvgz), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)
(Pre-Simpsons citations of "Homer Simpson" = Day of the Locust-related, I'm guessing.)
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Istanbul,Constantinople&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=punk,disco&corpus=0&smoothing=0&year_start=1975&year_end=1995
― Auto Mall Maniac (kkvgz), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=blues,jazz&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=mohammed%2Cmahomet%2Cmuhammed&year_start=1990&year_end=2009&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:37 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=penis,vagina&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Deej,Whiney&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1960&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)
Or rather:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=deej,Whiney&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1960&year_end=2008
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Bart%20Simpson,Homer%20Simpson&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1985&year_end=2008
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=freedom%2Cliberty&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=war,peace&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=8&smoothing=3
― sugg knight (cozen), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=hamburger,cheeseburger&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Auto Mall Maniac (kkvgz), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)
(xpost) ^German?
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:41 (fifteen years ago)
ah.
― Auto Mall Maniac (kkvgz), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:41 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=tacos,burritos,enchiladas,nachos&corpus=0&smoothing=0&year_start=1960&year_end=2008
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=lennon,mccartney&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1960&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:42 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Coca%20Cola,Pepsi%20Cola&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1940&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:43 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=hot%20dog,hamburger&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:43 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=honky,whitey&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Herpes,sexual%20revolution&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)
True equality, 1990:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=bitch,bastard&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=female%20orgasm,male%20orgasm&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1880&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)
This is the web2.l0l version of looking up rude words in a dictionary.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:50 (fifteen years ago)
Well, yes...
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=wench,whore,bitch,slag&corpus=6&smoothing=0&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― emil.y, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=google,altavista&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1993&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)
Speaking of which...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=shit,piss,fuck,cunt,cocksucker,motherfucker,tits&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:56 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=psychedelia&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― zvookster, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=dot%20com,grizz&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:58 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=christendom%2Cwestern+civilization&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:00 (fifteen years ago)
haha
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=bear+shit+in+the+woods&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:02 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=horse,car&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:02 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=coffee,tea&corpus=6&smoothing=3&year_start=1600&year_end=2000
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)
^ fall of the british empire
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:04 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=information%20superhighway,cyberspace,the%20Net&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1990&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:05 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=terrible,gay,homo,awful,house,music&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:05 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=phone%20call,email&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1980&year_end=2008
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=beatles,elvis&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1956&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=espresso,cappuccino,latte&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1940&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=cocaine,marijuana,heroin,alcohol,opium&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:09 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=heavens&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008(upturn at the end entirely due to Ned)
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Hitler,Stalin,Mussolini,Churchill,de%20Gaulle&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1918&year_end=2008
Why am I looking at this, dammit? I've got things to do.
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=freak%20out,flip%20out,fly%20off%20the%20handle&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=grandma%2Cmacaroni%2Coff+the+chain&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:15 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=flipping,freaking,fudging&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=cellular%20phone,mobile%20phone,cell%20phone&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1985&year_end=2005
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Milli%20Vanilli&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1970&year_end=2008
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)
1997.5, what a year...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Freud,Jesus&corpus=5&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Lenin,Lennon&corpus=5&smoothing=3&year_start=1965&year_end=2008
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)
xpost -- Jesus Freud Christ
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=typewriter,word%20processor&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1870&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=newbie,noob&corpus=5&smoothing=3&year_start=1970&year_end=2008
― sugg knight (cozen), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
did this as a loljoek but it's pretty fascinating tbh
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=vagina%2Cpenis&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
lol victorians
lol 20th century
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
1880 = the start of the High Vaginan Era
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
I already did penis and vagina upthread!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:29 (fifteen years ago)
well lucky you
― goole, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)
hmmmm
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=fear%20of%20men,fear%20of%20women&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:31 (fifteen years ago)
you bitches
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=OTM&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― Not the real Village People, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:47 (fifteen years ago)
or ratherhttp://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=OTM&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Not the real Village People, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:48 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=lol&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008;_;
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=chicken%20Kiev,chicken%20a%20la%20King,chicken%20cordon%20bleu,chicken%20cacciatore&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=findus%20crispy%20pancakes&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=colour,color&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
I put in 'tomato,tomato' and it automatically appended 'potato,potato'...http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=tomato,tomato,potato,potato&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:58 (fifteen years ago)
What people are scared about:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=terrorism,Communism&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1920&year_end=2005
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=sashimi,wasabi,sukiyaki,teriyaki&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:03 (fifteen years ago)
Seriously, sukiyaki was huge when I was a kid, now it can't get the time of day from you suave mothers.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:05 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, that graph is a nice little snapshot of the history of Japanese cuisine in the Anglophone world.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
btw, sushi runs about eqaul with sukiyaki through 1980 or so and then shoots upward, way above all these
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)
on a similar note, wouldn't have guessed the staying power of chow mein
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=chow%20mein,chop%20suey&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1920&year_end=2005
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)
Going farther back, chop suey starts appearing just before the turn of the century, while chow mein starts in the 1910s. What is this, waves of immigration from different parts of China?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=vodka,gin,whiskey,rum,tequila&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
though I guess "rum" used to mean something else too, and whiskey could be spelled "whisky"
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:22 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, I originally included sushi with the others, but it ended up obscuring the details of the other four.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Gone%20with%20the%20Wind,Wizard%20of%20Oz&corpus=0&smoothing=2&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Encyclopaedia%20Britannica,Wikipedia&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1768&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=heroin,opium&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― zvookster, Friday, 17 December 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=horse,car,chariot,train,helicopter&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000.png
― seandalai, Friday, 17 December 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Shakespeare,Bible&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)
ILM peaked in 1999 or so:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=ilm,pitchfork,rolling%20stone,nme&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008.png
― seandalai, Friday, 17 December 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=whore,hussy,tart,strumpet,harlot&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2010 21:52 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Princess%20Diana,Queen%20Elizabeth%20II&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1980&year_end=2000
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Blue%20Devils,Tar%20Heels&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2010 21:55 (fifteen years ago)
fuck you blue devils
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)
j/k
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Yahweh,Jehovah&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)
Jehovah's a closer!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)
What happened around 1900, Microsoft?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Apple,Microsoft&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― StanM, Friday, 17 December 2010 22:15 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=left,right&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― StanM, Friday, 17 December 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)
or for that matter
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=left%20wing,right%20wing&corpus=5&smoothing=3&year_start=1880&year_end=2005
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)
I'm not sure I believe all of this.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Simon,Garfunkel&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=up,down&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― StanM, Friday, 17 December 2010 22:20 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=up,down,%20turn%20around,%20please%20don%27t%20let%20me%20hit%20the%20ground&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)
This thread is going to make no sense whatsoever when all the image links expire...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)
that up/down one is mad correlated - guess the only thing preventing it from being fishy is that one is rarely used without the other
― titular character (acoleuthic), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=sexy%20motherfucker&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)
Oulipo:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Queneau,Lionnais,Calvino,Perec,Roubaud,Pastior&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
Nouveau roman:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Alain%20Robbe-Grillet,Nathalie%20Sarraute,Michel%20Butor,Claude%20Simon&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008(Wasn't sure if I should include Duras. Not surprisingly, she won the hell out of this when I did)
Bloomsbury set:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Virginia%20Woolf,EM%20Forster,Mary%20MacCarthy,Lytton%20Strachey,John%20Maynard%20Keynes,Duncant%20Grant,Vanessa%20Bell,Rogery%20Fry,Desmond%20MacCarthy,Clive%20Bell,Leonard%20Woolf&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008Same, minus Virginia Woolf:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=EM%20Forster,Mary%20MacCarthy,Lytton%20Strachey,John%20Maynard%20Keynes,Duncant%20Grant,Vanessa%20Bell,Rogery%20Fry,Desmond%20MacCarthy,Clive%20Bell,Leonard%20Woolf&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
(Forster came badly out of this because EM Forster was the only way I was able to even get him to register at all. Initials are tough in this thing.)
American (more or less...) winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Toni%20Morrison,Czeslaw%20Milosz,Isaac%20Bashevis%20Singer,Saul%20Bellow,John%20Steinbeck,Ernest%20Hemingway,William%20Faulkner,Pearl%20S.%20Buck,Eugene%20O%27Neill,Sinclair%20Lewis&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1910&year_end=2008
Sinclair Lewis sure was the shit in his day.
"The four greats" of Norwegian literature.http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Bjornstjerne%20Bjornson,Jonas%20Lie,Alexander%20Kielland,Henrik%20Ibsen&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1860&year_end=2008
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)
So the story about Typee's popularity and Moby-Dick's initial non-popularity checks out. Professors of the history of literature, I've got your back!http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Typee%2COmoo%2CMoby+Dick%2CBartleby%2CBenito+Cereno&year_start=1840&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 23:14 (fifteen years ago)
Hrm, did I screw that up?http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Typee,Omoo,Moby%20Dick,Bartleby,Benito%20Cereno&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1840&year_end=2000
― Øystein, Friday, 17 December 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=pimps,hos&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1960&year_end=2000
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 17 December 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Voltaire,Rousseau,Kant&corpus=0&smoothing=5&year_start=1750&year_end=2008
compare with the French:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Voltaire%2CRousseau%2CKant&year_start=1750&year_end=2008&corpus=7&smoothing=5
and, just for reference, Spanish:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Voltaire%2CRousseau%2CKant&year_start=1750&year_end=2008&corpus=10&smoothing=5
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Friday, 17 December 2010 23:44 (fifteen years ago)
or uh, don't
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Friday, 17 December 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)
Hahah wow this is cool:
http://books.google.com/books?id=zZ8AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1EIZgVhGUK3laPgzJPGe8Pm3qF6w&ci=212%2C150%2C616%2C400&edge=0
Thats from A practical grammar of the English languageRufus Nutting - 1823
And here I was thinking I'd been original ;_;
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:11 (fifteen years ago)
t/s: ilx's trayce vs liv tyler
― titular character (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)
vs field marshal montgomery
― titular character (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:31 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Philip%20K.%20Dick&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
wtf
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:35 (fifteen years ago)
try it without the period
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:38 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=dick&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1500&year_end=2000
holy shit @ nyc skyline
― titular character (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)
idgi
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)
Wait nm now I do.
How come "shoegaze" has no results?
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)
Try shoegazing instead.
― Alba, Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:00 (fifteen years ago)
Aha that works yeah. Not shoegaze or shoegazer tho. Or post-rock.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:04 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=strewth%2C+struth&year_start=1900&year_end=2005&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:08 (fifteen years ago)
I've mainly been looking at mother fuckers and blow jobs from the early 1960s. And charting the decline of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.
― Alba, Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=moslem,muslim&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― zvookster, Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah spellings are the interesting one, hence my struth/strewth.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:47 (fifteen years ago)
Ha!
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=another+thing+coming%2Canother+think+coming&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:49 (fifteen years ago)
Thing was clearly the winner, til 1900 when it very suddenly swapped, and took off. How odd.
Nah, the early numbers are so small they're not significant - can you find me a pre-1900 example where "another thing coming" is actually there in the sense we're talking about?
― Alba, Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:55 (fifteen years ago)
And charting the decline of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.― Alba, Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:22 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Alba, Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:22 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Saturday, 18 December 2010 02:10 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=communism,abortion,terrorism&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1880&year_end=2008
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Saturday, 18 December 2010 02:21 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=alcoholism,gambling,pornography,obesity,smoking&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1880&year_end=2008
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Saturday, 18 December 2010 02:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=insanity,homosexuality,racism&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1880&year_end=2008
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Saturday, 18 December 2010 02:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=liberal,conservative,democracy,human%20rights&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Saturday, 18 December 2010 02:30 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=geek,nerd,dweeb,dork&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1930&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:08 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Great%20War,World%20War%20I&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://i55.tinypic.com/fxb0cp.png
― larry longballs money (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:33 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.gifsoup.com/view1/1350886/smang-it-o.gif
Yeah I noticed that when I clicked on the book samples. It was coincidental phrases.
Its interesting cos a straw poll i did here in aus (after that thread) indicated most people here say "another thing" but that graph really says otherwise. Even if you pick british english. I wish I could pick australian english as a sample set.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=soda%20jerk,barista&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1980&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:36 (fifteen years ago)
fyi it seems that all the early instances of "poop" are references to poop decks
― several interesting cans of chili (askance johnson), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:38 (fifteen years ago)
like "the upper decker" or what?
― larry longballs money (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:40 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=male%20nurse,male%20model,male%20prostitute&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:42 (fifteen years ago)
I put in 'tomato,tomato' and it automatically appended 'potato,potato'...
hey you weren't kidding. do we have the determination to find all of the easter eggs they've got hidden away?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:46 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=vagina&year_start=1600&year_end=2010&corpus=0&smoothing=3
why is there such a steep peak around 1880?
― RR, Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:12 (fifteen years ago)
try again:
<img src="http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=vagina&year_start=1600&year_end=2010&corpus=0&smoothing=3";></img>
― RR, Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:16 (fifteen years ago)
oh never mind. click on the text in blue to see it. the search was for vagina -1600 to 2008, and it has a steep peak around 1880.
― RR, Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:21 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Super%20Mario,Donkey%20Kong,Space%20Invaders,Pac%20Man&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1975&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:22 (fifteen years ago)
Haha awesome! You come up with the best things to search on!
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:23 (fifteen years ago)
Ha, thanks. And I've basically wasted my entire day doing so!
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Corn%20Flakes,Wheaties,Rice%20Krispies,Raisin%20Bran,Grape%20Nuts,Cheerios&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1925&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=sidewalk%2Cpavement%2Cfootpath&year_start=1800&year_end=2005&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:40 (fifteen years ago)
US/UK merge going on there, while Aus languishes below with its stupid footpaths.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:41 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Vegemite%2C+Marmite&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
BAH!
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:42 (fifteen years ago)
Ooh this is interesting. Population changes mainly?http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=colour%2Ccolor&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:47 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=ketchup,catsup&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1820&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:50 (fifteen years ago)
xp Yeah, I think it must be more books being published in the USA.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:51 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=18th%20century,19th%20century,20th%20century,21st%20century&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:53 (fifteen years ago)
Interesting that it took until 1940 for 19th C. to finally overtake 18th C., but that 20th C. surpassed 19th C. almost immediately upon the turn of the 21st.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:57 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=50s%20nostalgia,60s%20nostalgia&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1975&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 18 December 2010 06:59 (fifteen years ago)
http://i51.tinypic.com/261epsw.png
― I DIED, Saturday, 18 December 2010 07:00 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=John%20Lennon,Mick%20Jagger,Jimi%20Hendrix,Miles%20Davis&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1960&year_end=1975
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 07:31 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=tastes%20great,less%20filling&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1980&year_end=2008
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 07:37 (fifteen years ago)
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Friday, December 17, 2010 9:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is my fav so far, things that freak out republicans, one at a time
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 18 December 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=LSD,PCP,MDMA&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1930&year_end=2008
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Communism,Islam&corpus=0&smoothing=0&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― carles II of spain (max arrrrrgh), Saturday, 18 December 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://min.us/mvjBzJohttp://min.us/mvj7aWJhttp://min.us/mvj6WG3
― max, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)
guh
http://i.min.us/jbwvRe.pnghttp://i.min.us/jd8FQM.pnghttp://i.min.us/jd892y.png
― max, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://min.us/jbvDcy.png
― max, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)
fuckin frog bastards
― One who would turn all to rodman (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:37 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Ленин,Сталин,Хрущёв,Брежнев,Горбачёв&corpus=12&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2000
― max, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)
At least one of those should have been shaped like a bear with his arms in the air :-(
― StanM, Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:47 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=sex,drugs,rock+and+roll,violence&year_start=1600&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― t. weiss, Sunday, 19 December 2010 05:30 (fifteen years ago)
they need to be spelt Хрущев, Горбачёв (xp)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD,%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD,%D0%A5%D1%80%D1%83%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%B2,%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2,%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2&corpus=12&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2000
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 December 2010 05:45 (fifteen years ago)
the english language versh shows a bigger lead for stalin as befit's the anglosphere's fixation for shitty books about him
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 December 2010 05:54 (fifteen years ago)
Ha, the Communism/Islam one is v interesting.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Sunday, 19 December 2010 06:04 (fifteen years ago)
Individual, society:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=society%2Cindividual&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Can you find another one that crosses over three times?
― Alba, Sunday, 19 December 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Corbusier,Mies&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1920&year_end=2000
near miss
― conrad, Sunday, 19 December 2010 12:44 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=gun,flower&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1700&year_end=2000
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Sunday, 19 December 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)
OK, new rule for the crossover game: one of the words has to reach 0.01% at some point. Otherwise it's all too erratic.
― Alba, Sunday, 19 December 2010 12:52 (fifteen years ago)
No no no, you can't just change the rules because Ledge is winning ;-)
― StanM, Sunday, 19 December 2010 12:55 (fifteen years ago)
I'll take my toy away.
Oh shit, I can't.
― Alba, Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)
s'ok i got it covered
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=home,family&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1700&year_end=2000
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)
interestin but i don't know what it means...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=home,family,love,death&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1740&year_end=2000
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:03 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=existentialism,objectivism,rationalism,relativism,nihilism&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― ♪ like cockaHOOS ♫ (rip van wanko), Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:04 (fifteen years ago)
i missed a critical recent fourth crossover in the eternal home/family struggle!
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=home,family&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1740&year_end=2008
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:13 (fifteen years ago)
If you're still curious, it's OCR error + the last days of the long s.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Sunday, 19 December 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Humble%20Servant,humble%20servant,Obedient%20Servant,obedient%20servant&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1600&year_end=2008
the golden age of swallowing your pride and conducting yourself like a fawning spaniel in order to gain friends and benefactors
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Sunday, 19 December 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Google,Yahoo&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1990&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 19 December 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Hotmail,Gmail&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1994&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 19 December 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=googol,googly&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Sunday, 19 December 2010 19:28 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=coconut,cocoanut&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 19 December 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Mom,Mama&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)
Similarly:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Dad,Papa&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:52 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=cuties%2Chotties&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Alba, Sunday, 19 December 2010 22:16 (fifteen years ago)
I wonder how definitive the distinction between US and UK English publications is? Was having fun w/this to wind up the bf, who is v militant about "British" date formats, which OK I prefer and find more logical in numerical form, but I have long suspected that if you're writing it in words or saying it out loud there isn't really a single "British" way
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=27th+June,June+27th,27+June,June+27,27th+of+June&year_start=1750&year_end=2008&corpus=6&smoothing=3
that date is pretty random but I went through a couple of others first - first May, then thought "oops, 'may' has a homonym", then 19 June, but thought that maybe e.g. "June 1915" would be somehow picked up as "June 19" - and they all had much the same shape
(tbh I don't trust the US/UK assignments much at all, given the slapdash job Google Books does of various things, e.g. long s, scanned thumbs on page, working out which books are out of copyright and should be "viewable" in non-US countries - pretty annoying given that all non-US "partners" had to do rigorous determination of copyright status in their own country before letting anything be scanned, which is then totally ignored </rant>)
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 19 December 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)
Did someone do this one?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=telegram%2C+internet&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=phone%2Ctelephone&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)
narcissism increases
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=1700,1800,1900,2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1700&year_end=2008
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Monday, 20 December 2010 00:00 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=fin%20de%20siecle&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Monday, 20 December 2010 00:05 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=gramophone%2Cphonograph&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=6&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=gramophone%2Cphonograph&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 00:08 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=ketchup%2Ctomato+sauce&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― cereal bad boy (haitch), Monday, 20 December 2010 00:57 (fifteen years ago)
OK, this is the most interesting one I've done, on decades. People barely talked about the "1950s" till they were over. Decade obsession peaked with the 1980s (but in the 1990s).
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=1950s%2C1960s%2C1970s%2C1980s%2C1990s&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Alba, Monday, 20 December 2010 01:24 (fifteen years ago)
they all follow exactly the same pattern of dominance - but the 1990s has by far the weakest period of dominance - as if it were only a cursory ascent to the zenith
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 December 2010 01:27 (fifteen years ago)
I should add the usual caveat that people may have been referring to a decade in other ways (the 60s, the Sixties, the sixties, this decade, last decade etc)
― Alba, Monday, 20 December 2010 01:31 (fifteen years ago)
The 1990s also start to pick up earlier; they were anticipated more (and when they actual came, people had relatively little to say, and were, I suppose more fixated on the end of the millennium). I wonder if decade-talk will pick up again once we get to the 2020s.
― Alba, Monday, 20 December 2010 01:36 (fifteen years ago)
Actually came, rather.
― Alba, Monday, 20 December 2010 01:37 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=burgle%2C+burglarize&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Alba, Monday, 20 December 2010 01:38 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=bugger,buggery,sodomy,sodomise&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1500&year_end=2008
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 December 2010 01:39 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=normality,normalcy&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1908&year_end=2008
― conrad, Monday, 20 December 2010 01:58 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=aluminium,aluminum&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1875&year_end=2008
the old fav
― conrad, Monday, 20 December 2010 02:03 (fifteen years ago)
Surprised to see how much Internet is still beating internet.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Internet%2C+internet&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Alba, Monday, 20 December 2010 02:19 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Martin%20Luther%20King,Malcolm%20X&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Monday, 20 December 2010 03:36 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=whiskey,whisky,vodka,gin,rum&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1700&year_end=2008
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Monday, 20 December 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)
Arrr, thar be a lot of pirates writin' books in the 1700s
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Monday, 20 December 2010 03:45 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=vegetarian,vegan&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:05 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Santa%20Claus,St%20Nicholas,Father%20Christmas,Kris%20Kringle&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:06 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Jesus%2CBeatles&year_start=1950&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=God%2C+Jesus&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
"Cram it, son"
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:21 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Obediah,Obadiah&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1700&year_end=2000
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=electric+vindaloo&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Ligeti,Berio,Stockhausen,Scelsi,Boulez,Xenakis,Ferneyhough&corpus=0&smoothing=7&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:29 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=chas%2Cdave&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
(surprises me tbh)
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:31 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Liszt,Chopin,Schubert,Schumann,Brahms&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1820&year_end=2008
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:31 (fifteen years ago)
You did those in lower case. "chas" might be giving false positives.
xpost
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)
question for people posting links instead of embedding images: do you think anyone is looking at yr brilliant graphs
― ice cr?m, Monday, 20 December 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)
Good lord Trayce you're right
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Chas%2CDave&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Robert%20Musil,Hermann%20Broch,Georges%20Bataille,Maurice%20Blanchot&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1940&year_end=2008
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:36 (fifteen years ago)
icey: I know I am. I have images off on ILX so everythigns a link and I have to click on it anyway *shrug*.
Gives me the shits when its a thread of 9487583475836 youtubes without a single word of preamble.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:36 (fifteen years ago)
Trayce otm tbh iirc
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:38 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=otm,tbh,iirc&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Paris,New%20York,London,Tokyo&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:40 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Paris,New%20York,London,Springvale&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:41 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Nakhchivan,Nagorno%20Karabakh&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1970&year_end=2008
h8 u, nagorno karabakh ;_;
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:44 (fifteen years ago)
I'm not sure about this thing. I did several searches using it, and when you look at the books, the first 10 of 10 results in each case had completely the wrong dates on them (mostly 100-200 years out).
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, 20 December 2010 08:20 (fifteen years ago)
yeah I have definitely gotten a couple of like, conference minutes from 1960 claiming to be books from 1860, which is nagl... still I think for fairly broad trends, it should be reliable
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Monday, 20 December 2010 12:11 (fifteen years ago)
They have and admit a fairly serious metadata problem. I'm not sure how far they've come, but this language log article and the long comment from a Google Books person beneath it shows what was up last year, eg:
we recently received a large number of Brazilian records from a metadata provider. This provider seemingly used 1899 as a placeholder for "no date", which is why we have 250,000 books incorrectly identified as being published in 1899.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 20 December 2010 12:29 (fifteen years ago)
but, apart from that, no
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 20 December 2010 23:11 (fifteen years ago)
This graph made intuitive sense to me right up until the past decade:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=french%20fries,French%20fries,freedom%20fries&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1908&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Monday, 20 December 2010 23:25 (fifteen years ago)
oh, belated thanks to woof for the language log link, interesting stuff. though I have a confession to make: one of my previous roles was to provide metadata to Google when they scanned books at the library I work for, and it is kind of bumming me out to read there that they may not be using the provided metadata at all, just scraping their bad OCR text in the hope of guessing things like publication dates
(you can see upthread that I have a few similar axes to grind about this particular job, but I should clarify that the Google Books project is an exciting and rad thing that I am very glad happened, because there is no way most of the participating libraries would ever have got the money and infrastructure in place to undertake such a major digitisation project, and ngrams is a fun as hell toy even if you probably shouldn't write your thesis based on the results just yet)
hope I didn't say anything I wasn't meant to on the internet just there - seems unlikely, but the rules about these things can get weird
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 01:39 (fifteen years ago)
karma: I just got further through the comments and the guy from Google alluded to one particular dumb metadata screwup saying it was due to the metadata provided by "a British library" which I had a gut feeling would be the one I work for, went to search for it, and yes it is. I mean our catalogue is frankly in a shocking state of disrepair so I am not really all "if only they had used our beautiful metadata", just "man, did I waste time every week for 2 years doing something which was never used?", and it appears it is actually used even when it is wildly inaccurate, so I guess that is good to know!
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 01:52 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=connexion%2C+connection&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 10:37 (fifteen years ago)
It seems as though "oh my" was a meme c. 1805. Who knew?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=lions%2C+tigers%2C+bears%2C+oh+my&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 10:43 (fifteen years ago)
Glad that's settled then:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=The+Beatles%2CThe+Rolling+Stones&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 10:49 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=guts&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1680&year_end=2000
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)
beef, chicken
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=beef%2Cchicken&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:41 (fifteen years ago)
indecent, obscene, pornographic
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=indecent%2Cobscene%2C+pornographic&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
surely i'm repeating these by now... but this thread is kinda ugly to read
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:47 (fifteen years ago)
I see yr graph and raise u:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=indecent,obscene,pornographic,explicit&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:51 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=boiled%20chicken,roast%20chicken,fried%20chicken,grilled%20chicken&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:55 (fifteen years ago)
!!!
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)
chicken boom in the early 40s... rationing?
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:59 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Ulysses,Odysseus&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)
ketchup, catsup, salsa
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=ketchup%2Ccatsup%2Csalsa&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=chocolate,cheese&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)
I did ketchup vs. catsup upthread, but the salsa addition is great.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:02 (fifteen years ago)
checking a couple different words, there looks to be an all-around food 'boom' around 1940! weird
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:04 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Iliad,Odyssey&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)
china, india, japan
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=china%2C+india%2C+japan&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)
Actually here's a UK vs US breakdown of that chicken one:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=boiled%20chicken,roast%20chicken,fried%20chicken,grilled%20chicken&corpus=6&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=boiled%20chicken,roast%20chicken,fried%20chicken,grilled%20chicken&corpus=5&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
(UK on top, spike in roast chicken in the 1940s; US below, spike in fried chicken in the 1940s)
but yeah, I think someone else mentioned a food boom in the 1940s, I guess someone may have donated a collection of 1940s cookbooks for scanning?
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:06 (fifteen years ago)
wow, iliad and odyssey not at all what i expected. what happened in 1920?
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:06 (fifteen years ago)
or just a big year for cookbook publishing
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:06 (fifteen years ago)
y'all have to keep in mind that everything is gonna be mediated thru book-publishing
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)
or uh thru google's books, iunno
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:08 (fifteen years ago)
yeah it's a pretty dim window on the world i guess
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:08 (fifteen years ago)
Iliad/Odyssey graph fits with my scant knowledge of the subject -- Iliad more popular for centuries, but Odyssey fits more with the "modern sensibility" plus 1920 = James Joyce's Ulysses
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:08 (fifteen years ago)
but i mean it would make sense for there to be a cookbook boom in the postwar affluent society no? teach you how to fully utilize the capabilities of the state-of-the-art kitchen in your new house etc
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:09 (fifteen years ago)
this is a good one:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=manchester%2Cliverpool&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
1890s mega-lurch kinda understandable but curious about the lift at the end of 2000s, football maybe?
― NI, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:11 (fifteen years ago)
The consistency of these rankings surprises me
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Hamlet,Othello,Macbeth,King%20Lear,&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:12 (fifteen years ago)
890s mega-lurch kinda understandable
it is? color me ignorant then!
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:12 (fifteen years ago)
industrial revolution!
― NI, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)
you've got a point though, the severe leap *up* can be explained by industrialisation, i don't quite get why it dropped off just as quickly
― NI, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)
i thought that happened way before 1890
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)
yall are forgetting that it's case-sensitive
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)
it is??
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
i.e. the manchester/liverpool one should look like:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Manchester,Liverpool&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
i'll be damned
the tempest, The Tempest
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=the+tempest%2C+The+Tempest&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:28 (fifteen years ago)
multi-xposts: pretty cool to see how close Macbeth and Hamlet were before things eventually got sorted out!
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:29 (fifteen years ago)
xposts ahh makes more sense. but why so many lower-case manchester entries in that one decade?
― NI, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:34 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Rolling%20Stone,Rolling%20Stones&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:36 (fifteen years ago)
shakespeare comedies
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=The+Tempest%2CComedy+of+Errors%2CMuch+Ado+About+Nothing%2CMidsummer+Night%27s+Dream%2CMerchant+of+Venice%2CAs+You+Like+It%2CTaming+of+the+Shrew%2CTwelfth+Night&year_start=1750&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:38 (fifteen years ago)
xposts ahh makes more sense. but why so many lower-case manchester entries in that one decade?― NI, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 5:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
― NI, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 5:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)
perhaps could also be explained by a single book from the decade using the lower-case manchester many many times throughout?
― NI, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)
spirit, soul, conscience, personality, genius
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=spirit%2Csoul%2Cconscience%2Cpersonality%2Cgenius&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:46 (fifteen years ago)
yeah firefox is annoying me by shrinking the images to be just small enough that i have to squint to read the text. anyone know if there's anything i can do about that?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:48 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=red%20wine,white%20wine&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:53 (fifteen years ago)
lol 80s
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)
I almost made that exact same post, ha.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:00 (fifteen years ago)
founding fathers, the big four
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=John+Adams%2CBenjamin+Franklin%2CThomas+Jefferson%2CGeorge+Washington&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:01 (fifteen years ago)
maybe it's just a common name but adams was the king shit for a while there
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)
darwin, marx, freud
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Marx%2CFreud%2CDarwin&year_start=1850&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
lol 50's
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:08 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Marx,Freud,Darwin,Nietzsche&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1850&year_end=2000
― max, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:14 (fifteen years ago)
lol 90s
culture, civilization
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=culture%2Ccivilization&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:17 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=bodega,convenience%20store,corner%20store&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1940&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:25 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=culture,Sid%20Meier
― max, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=cigar,cigarette&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:32 (fifteen years ago)
Does nobody else find it odd that Odysseus has a massive spike in popularity just after Ulysses is published? Surely you would expect, uh, Ulysses to be mentioned more in that period. Unless maybe people starting using the variant in order to not confuse people?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)
joke, jest
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=joke%2Cjest&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:36 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=canasta,pinochle,euchre,rummy&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:41 (fifteen years ago)
poker crushes all those
here's blackjack added, from 1800
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=blackjack%2Ccanasta%2Cpinochle%2Ceuchre%2Crummy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
so euchre was the game of the gilded age?
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:50 (fifteen years ago)
bear arms, free speech
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=bear+arms%2Cfree+speech&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)
nice!
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)
not sure what to make of this:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=church%20and%20state,Church%20and%20State&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:54 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah. Also didn't include it because of potential false positives.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)
ha ha
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=sarcasm%2Cirony&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Easter,Christmas&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1750&year_end=2000
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)
whoa
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Valentine%27s+Day&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
another lol 50's one:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=plead+the+Fifth&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
― goole, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Prozac,Ritalin,Viagra,Valium,Xanax&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
Did not realize that Ritalin was that old.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)
Poor Xanax.
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Jack%20Daniels,Jose%20Cuervo,Jim%20Beam,Johnnie%20Walker&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2000
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:34 (fifteen years ago)
I don't know why food and drink are so interesting to me:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=ranch%20dressing,Italian%20dressing,Russian%20dressing,balsamic%20vinaigrette&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2008
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=buy,rent&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― Alba, Thursday, 23 December 2010 01:19 (fifteen years ago)
http://i55.tinypic.com/25a0xgy.png
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:47 (fifteen years ago)
http://i51.tinypic.com/20acpk6.png
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:48 (fifteen years ago)
http://i54.tinypic.com/o7lqn6.png
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:51 (fifteen years ago)
http://i52.tinypic.com/20zqv5j.png
(passenger pigeons went extinct in the wild in 1900 and in captivity in 1914)
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:55 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=millennium,millenium&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1950&year_end=2008
― StanM, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)
Everyone who'd learned it kinda forgot the right spelling after 2001 ?
― StanM, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:00 (fifteen years ago)
eh? it looks to me that people just used the word less and less (whether properly or improperly spelled) after the millennium.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)
http://i51.tinypic.com/t55cnm.png
hmm
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, of course, you're totally right - misread that completely. Xpost. :-(
― StanM, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)
British English:http://i53.tinypic.com/30k6e0i.png
American English:http://i51.tinypic.com/259zofm.png
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:20 (fifteen years ago)
http://i55.tinypic.com/34rb0jc.png
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:25 (fifteen years ago)
American English:http://i52.tinypic.com/ostqnc.png
15 crossovers? it's hard to count.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:43 (fifteen years ago)
http://i51.tinypic.com/2i1i98j.png
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:50 (fifteen years ago)
That reminds me how 50s-60s British children's books often have "hullo" instead. British English:http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=Hello,Hallo,Hullo&corpus=6&smoothing=3&year_start=1780&year_end=2008
(capitalised it because it gives higher %s that way. "Hi" dwarves any of them when I did not expect it to be used at all as a greeting in UK books printed pre-1970; going to assume that's a weird glitch of OCR or use as abbreviation and not include it.)
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)
for a while (~1750 to 1810 in Britain), "Halloo" was more common than any of those. British dandies just don't shout out to alert their hounds of a fox the way they used to, *sigh*.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)
I have not figured out the "hi" thing, but I did get totally distracted by wanting to read this book:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/d3/d4/05537220eca0b2baab818010.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
(note author's name!)
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
xpost - according to etymonline, "Hi" wasn't used as a greeting until the 1860s, and it originated in America. you're probably right about OCR errors. among other things, the Roman numeral III seems to confuse the machine an awful lot.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)
Q. How to make a success of your teen years?A. Gay Head
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)
http://i51.tinypic.com/2chkz7l.jpg
WANT
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=irony%2Cironic&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1840&year_end=2008http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=ironic+appreciation&year_start=1840&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
was just gently thinking abt how in the late 90s I kept reading magazines proclaiming the 90s the decade of irony, and from here the 90s looks pretty earnest, as I guess even the most deadpan snark of the 00s will in another few years - don't really know what the graph does to this thought, but here it is anyhow
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 2 January 2011 14:52 (fifteen years ago)
not exactly on topic - this is as close as i could find to a google books thread - but, does anyone use google books a lot? i find it so useful, in being able to search through a book to find a specific passage i remember, or maybe preview something, or just as a go-to source for info. and yesterday i noticed it had a whole 'add to library' thing that allows you to do the kinda goodreads-y thing of making a list of what you're reading/going to read &c. i looked up a deleuze book, inspired/shamed by the thread, and it comes up with a list of 'favorite passages' you can jump into. i wondered if anyone used it - i don't know that it has the emphasis on being a kinda personality-ish community thing in the way similar sites do but it seems like such a useful resource.
― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Thursday, 4 August 2011 10:00 (fourteen years ago)
I use it for work all the time. It's great.
Here's an Ngram I found interesting:
http://books.google.com/ngrams/chart?content=Fela%20Kuti%2CFela%20Ransome%20Kuti%2CFela%20Anikulapo%20Kuti&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1965&year_end=2008
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Friday, 20 April 2012 17:22 (fourteen years ago)
http://books.google.com/ngrams/chart?content=Knut%20Hamsun%2CVidkun%20Quisling&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2000
― Øystein, Friday, 20 April 2012 17:51 (fourteen years ago)
Though Quisling wins out when we go for just the surnames ...http://books.google.com/ngrams/chart?content=Hamsun%2CQuisling&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1900&year_end=2000
― Øystein, Friday, 20 April 2012 17:53 (fourteen years ago)
It lets do you extra stuff now, like plot US against UK usage.
1969: the year that Jesus became bigger in America than Britain:
http://i.imgur.com/vlmhF.png
― Alba, Sunday, 21 October 2012 19:53 (thirteen years ago)
Waaaay up there, the tw-decade surge in the use of "lucifer" in the mid-nineteenth century was most likely a byproduct of the term "lucifer matches".
― Aimless, Sunday, 21 October 2012 20:17 (thirteen years ago)
huh.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2012 20:34 (thirteen years ago)
"lucifer" vs "satan" was plotted back near the start of this thread, by:
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, December 17, 2010 10:09 AM (1 year ago)
When self-striking sulpher-phosphorus matches were first invented they were sometimes called "swedish matches", but far more often were called "lucifer matches", until they became less of a novelty and were simply referred to as "matches".
― Aimless, Sunday, 21 October 2012 20:43 (thirteen years ago)
Um...
There are three kinds of view on google books: full view, snippet view and preview view. Full view is only for public domain books. For in copyright works, you have preview and snippet. Preview lets you see some full pages while snippet view lets you see a chunk and some sentences.There was some change a month ago that knocked out a lot of books from search, and I am not entirely sure what that change was. But a few days ago they removed ALL search functions for any books with previews, which are disproportionately modern books. This has made Google Books effectively useless. Snippet view remains and is still searchable.Bizarrely, if you check the individual books that used to have search function enabled - the previews are still there! You can read full pages! However, the search/OCR is completely turned off. You can search a word while staring at a page that has that word and it will tell you 0 results. They also did not turn off OCR/search for snippet view AND completely locked books.I think this is extremely terrible as it makes finding books to buy extremely difficult. It also clearly isn't for copyright, as the previews are still there. I have no clue why they did this.
There was some change a month ago that knocked out a lot of books from search, and I am not entirely sure what that change was. But a few days ago they removed ALL search functions for any books with previews, which are disproportionately modern books. This has made Google Books effectively useless. Snippet view remains and is still searchable.
Bizarrely, if you check the individual books that used to have search function enabled - the previews are still there! You can read full pages! However, the search/OCR is completely turned off. You can search a word while staring at a page that has that word and it will tell you 0 results. They also did not turn off OCR/search for snippet view AND completely locked books.
I think this is extremely terrible as it makes finding books to buy extremely difficult. It also clearly isn't for copyright, as the previews are still there. I have no clue why they did this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1qn1hk1/google_has_seemingly_entirely_removed_search/
― Venus of Willendorf on Golf (jaymc), Monday, 26 January 2026 21:16 (three months ago)
I search on Google Books pretty much every day for work. This would be a huge blow.
― Venus of Willendorf on Golf (jaymc), Monday, 26 January 2026 21:17 (three months ago)