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My night became much more pleasent.
What's with the parallel blip of both terms around 1900? Only to fall into hibernation for two decades?
In the extended graph, the word 'dickhead' became very popular in the mid-1700s.
This link is awesome!
How do you copy those images and paste them here?
I compared "order" and "chaos." The graph flat-lined.
How do you copy those images and paste them here?
I compared "order" and "chaos." The graph flat-lined.
right click on the graph and choose copy image address or your web browsers equivelent.
I had to copy the "Properties" tab and use the image icon...like I always do.
You can probably guess the first word I saw given this treatment.
The results are interesting.
As in, take all the above with a grain of salt?
Especially the s to f confusion in the typefonts of yore.
Ha. It looks like google books mistakes the long s for an f. So "Suck," even "such" occasionally pops up as the ol' f-word. Particularly amusing is when an older version of Romeo and Juliet offers the following line at its conclusion: "Death, that hath f*ck'd the honey of thy breath."
That word...I do not think it means what you think it means.
it interesting even if it has it's problems. It also seems to be case sensitive. ex. easter is well ahead of christmas. But Christmas is ahead of Easter. The other december holidays are barely on the map.
"easter" is also an adjective, on many place names (easter island, easter ross, etc.). So that makes sense--probably good that it's case sensitive. Useful for catholic/Catholic, romantic/Romantic, Baroque/baroque, etc. ETA: except being case sensitive wouldn't help for proper nouns. D'oh.
On another note, it was difficult to measure presidents' names--you need to use their first names (Kennedy, Johnson, Ford,etc come out in the wash) But Some have middle initials! Is it "Richard Nixon" or "Richard M. Nixon" v. "John F. Kennedy"? What about the George Bushes? You're screwed!
Definitely fun, also definitely non definitive.
Ha. It looks like google books mistakes the long s for an f. So "Suck," even "such" occasionally pops up as the ol' f-word. Particularly amusing is when an older version of Romeo and Juliet offers the following line at its conclusion: "Death, that hath f*ck'd the honey of thy breath."
That word...I do not think it means what you think it means.
Well, what the machine thinks it means, anyway. And yes, I know this whole system doesn't have much meaning since it covers only usage within a percentage of printed works.
On the other hand, I suppose the machine doesn't read "country" the way Shakespeare intended it either.
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"Freedom" is an interesting one. Though like most of these, I think it is more interesting coincidence than substance.
I feel the need to bring this down to a 12 year old level...
I'm not sure what I expected, but a spike in 1880 of the use of the word vagina, was NOT it.
Vagina for a few short years replaced 'a' as the indefinite article in Australia English.
It was weeeeeeeeeeeird.
As expected, Googe's nifty new tool is starting to yield some interesting results.
Not all that surprising: Glamour tells us in an article about how men want other things apart from sex that men sometimes "need help getting to" the words "I love you." Mmmm.
It's a complicated chart to read—it's pretty hard to follow the second words to the third words, so let's just look at the second words. Men have a hold of the verbs "joined" (the military?), "became" (a doctor?), "suggested" (she shut the hell up?), "believes" (he is the best?), and "goes" (away to his mistress's house?), while women dominate the verbs "learned" (how to sew?), "turned" (around in her pretty dress so that he could see just a hint of her stockinged ankles beneath her petticoat?), "moved" (toward the window so that he could not see her cry?), "grew" (frightened?), and "started" (to cry?).