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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 smiley
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 smiley

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
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Grizlas
06/11/2024 20:17
Finally.

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05/11/2024 13:14
tta finally works again

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

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24/08/2024 23:30
doubtful

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

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24/12/2023 15:06
Gleðilig jól

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29/10/2023 19:16
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RIP Matthew Perry.

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