Google just release a fascinating little tool that lets you search millions of books and plot the frequency with which your terms occur across time.
Below are a few that might be of interest to no-essers.
Warning: very addictive. Don't click if you have something important to do in the next hour and a half.
1.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?cont ... moothing=2
Note how recent "snacks" are. And note the correlation with another phenomenon (though to be fair, I'm sure I could also show a correlation to the use of certain four letter words or beauty products).
2. This doesn't bode well:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?cont ... moothing=2
3. What strikes me is how close all three terms are:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?cont ... moothing=2
4. And how pitifully behind less sound advice:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?cont ... moothing=2
Reinhard
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I think it must have something to do with a similar spike in the mother of all 4-letter words (is this data set for real???).
Here are another couple of surprising/suspicious trends:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?cont ... moothing=3
Is this because the words were used differently? ("exercise of arms," "the diet of Worms"). Even so, surprising.
Reinhard
Here are another couple of surprising/suspicious trends:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?cont ... moothing=3
Is this because the words were used differently? ("exercise of arms," "the diet of Worms"). Even so, surprising.
Reinhard