Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
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Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
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Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#2Many false positives in early years due to 's' being written like 'f' and mistaken by the OCR software. Both the short and tall forms were used, but there seemed to have been some style preferences that led to the tall 's' being used at the beginning of a word, and small 's' at the end.
In handwriting or italic, the tall 's' was rather like the integral symbol, but when setting serifed font it looks pretty much like an 'f', but missing half or all the crossbar.
Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#3Many false positives in early years due to 's' being written like 'f' and mistaken by the OCR software. Both the short and tall forms were used, but there seemed to have been some style preferences that led to the tall 's' being used at the beginning of a word, and small 's' at the end. In handwriting or italic, the tall 's' was rather like the integral symbol, but when setting serifed font it looks pretty much like…
If a positive is a hit on one of the seven words, then aren't you saying there are a lot more "f"-"uck"s than there should be (via "suck")? I would have thought the reverse : than there would be more "f"-"hit"s - i.e. false negatives.
Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#4Many false positives in early years due to 's' being written like 'f' and mistaken by the OCR software. Both the short and tall forms were used, but there seemed to have been some style preferences that led to the tall 's' being used at the beginning of a word, and small 's' at the end. In handwriting or italic, the tall 's' was rather like the integral symbol, but when setting serifed font it looks pretty much like…
Andrew West provides an excellent (and detailed) list of the rules for using "long s" (as well as some Ngram graphs) at http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html.
Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#5Many false positives in early years due to 's' being written like 'f' and mistaken by the OCR software. Both the short and tall forms were used, but there seemed to have been some style preferences that led to the tall 's' being used at the beginning of a word, and small 's' at the end. In handwriting or italic, the tall 's' was rather like the integral symbol, but when setting serifed font it looks pretty much like…
Multiple meanings for 'tits' are also a consideration. (Maybe my monitor or eyes suck, but I had to do a tits vs fuck only ngram search to see that the big spike is in fact tits.)
Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#6Many false positives in early years due to 's' being written like 'f' and mistaken by the OCR software. Both the short and tall forms were used, but there seemed to have been some style preferences that led to the tall 's' being used at the beginning of a word, and small 's' at the end. In handwriting or italic, the tall 's' was rather like the integral symbol, but when setting serifed font it looks pretty much like…
Multiple meanings for 'tits' are also a consideration. (Maybe my monitor or eyes suck, but I had to do a tits vs fuck only ngram search to see that the big spike is in fact tits.)
Yes, a quick look at the actual search hits shows that most of these books are in fact about birds, and a couple hits are citations and refer to a last name.
Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#7Many false positives in early years due to 's' being written like 'f' and mistaken by the OCR software. Both the short and tall forms were used, but there seemed to have been some style preferences that led to the tall 's' being used at the beginning of a word, and small 's' at the end. In handwriting or italic, the tall 's' was rather like the integral symbol, but when setting serifed font it looks pretty much like…
Multiple meanings for 'tits' are also a consideration. (Maybe my monitor or eyes suck, but I had to do a tits vs fuck only ngram search to see that the big spike is in fact tits.)
I think either your monitor or your eyes must in fact fu- I mean suck, because the big bulge (it's not exactly a spike) is for "fuck", not for "tits".
(And most of it does in fact seem to be for wrongly-OCRed "suck", unsurprisingly.)
Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#8In first page of search results for 1650 - 1724 I saw 4 different words OCR'd as "shit": This, that, first, and shit.
"first" looks like "firft", but "This" and "that" look pretty standard.
Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#9It looks like somewhere near the 60s, people stopped caring about not using expletives! :)
Re: Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words
#10Many false positives in early years due to 's' being written like 'f' and mistaken by the OCR software. Both the short and tall forms were used, but there seemed to have been some style preferences that led to the tall 's' being used at the beginning of a word, and small 's' at the end. In handwriting or italic, the tall 's' was rather like the integral symbol, but when setting serifed font it looks pretty much like…
Interestingly, the tall s seems to have replaced the short one in a relativvely shout timeframe. apart from the transition period arount 1800, this looks like a smooth curve: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fuck,suck&yea...