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Find out what’s in a word, or five, with the Google Books Ngram Viewer (googleblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by moultano on Dec 17, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I just can't stop playing with this thing.

American fruits over time: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=pawpaw,huckleberr...

The pawpaw was more popular than the blueberry, and the gooseberry was more popular than the raspberry!

How much people talked about black men, and what they called them: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=man+of+color,Negr...

Amazing!





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