OT: Google Ngram Viewer

[elocomotive]

Anybody else seen this thing. You can search a word and see how prevalent it's usage is in books over time. I find it VERY interesting...

Google Ngram Viewer

For example, bombastic has been used with similar frequency for the last 200 years. But awesome is a 20th century word that exploded from the 1960s to 1980s and has now leveled off.

And yes... you can put in dirty words. Fuck apparently was used in the 1800-1820s and dropped out of sight until the last 50 years.

 

[elocomotive]

Good news! Hockey is on the rise!

 

[jstewismybastardson]

sadly goonery is back stronger than ever

 

[IPostedWhat]

I was a big deal back in 1818.

 

[blindbaby]

rim job - Had some success in the 50's; disappeared altogether in the 60's; came on like gang-busters to start the 70's and has been climbing ever since.

 

[dash]

sadly goonery is back stronger than ever

I attribute that mainly to TrueNiners and "ref goonery"

 

[jstewismybastardson]

i felt compelled to look up poontang for some reason?

/looks like the line graph of world oil consumption

 

[dash]

balderdash - peaked around 1928 and has been declining ever since
dingleberry - good news, it's spiking in popularity right now (lol)

 

[forty_three]

balderdash - peaked around 1928 and has been declining ever since
dingleberry - good news, it's spiking in popularity right now (lol)

You're welcome.

 

[buffhockey]

obama is very interesting.

 

[forty_three]

Snork was very popular during the 1890's and around 2000.

Completely unrelated, the word "Ugly" was in steady use but started to sharply rise around 2000 as well.

 

[forty_three]

Ngrams not found: cromulent

Oh no you didn't!

 

[Vadered]

A word known as "the" has apparently made up about 5% of all words in books since 1800. You'd think they'd come up with something different, THE lazy bastards.

 

[dash]

asshat - Not even on the graph prior to 2000, has gone up like a rocket since then.

 

[IPostedWhat]

Haberdasher hasn't been relevant since 1621.

Tough break.

 

[dash]

Haberdasher hasn't been relevant since 1621.

Tough break.

Yet it made its way into a Family Guy episode:


Lawyer: Mr Griffin, which of the following two phrases best describes Brian Griffin: Problem Drinker or African-American Haberdasher?

 

[BOSSMANPC]

What about captain obvious?

 

[Comeds]

Atom Bomb is a fun one. Defenestrate is on the rise!

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Ngrams not found: cromulent

Oh no you didn't!

What about embiggens?

That's a perfectly cromulent word after all.

 

[forty_three]

Haberdasher hasn't been relevant since 1621.

Tough break.

I use the word Haberdasher every time someone asks me how Hat Tricks got started.