Try "war": ( http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=war&year_star... ). Nice peaks on WWI, WWII, and Vietnam; maybe a tiny peak on the Gulf War. Any other search terms where you can see meaningful fluctuations?
is good about to triumph over bad ? http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=angel,devil&y...
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#12i'm surprised that "star wars" has never been able to eclipse "galoshes":
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=star+wars,+galosh...
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#13Try "nerd". Like what you would expect. Now, try "sexy nerd". Sigh!
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#14one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree...
In order, except "ten" shows up between "six" and "seven".
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#16This is really fun to play with: http://goo.gl/mNSDD
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#17Try "war": ( http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=war&year_star... ). Nice peaks on WWI, WWII, and Vietnam; maybe a tiny peak on the Gulf War. Any other search terms where you can see meaningful fluctuations?
Yes, that was a cool one.
murder: pretty cyclical and consistent rape: massive spike in the 80s and 90's, and declining a bit
fraud: blip after WW2, then pretty stable up to around 1995
nazi: interesting trends there
oil: some more interesting trends, a large spike in the early 80's
Interesting that the trends for freedom and liberty differ quite significantly, although they have some of the same 'humps'. Liberty has an uptick after 2000, whereas freedom does not.
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#18The parsing of contractions/words with apostrophes is broken/unsupported:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can%27t%2Ccouldn%... vs http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=t%2Ccan%27t%2Ccou...
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#19one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree... In order, except "ten" shows up between "six" and "seven".
That's interesting, isn't it? I think this proportionality is related to a quirk of human perception. If you are shown briefly a set of objects the average person is able (at a glance) to quickly count those objects for a low value whose threshold is around six or seven. Thus when the number goes any higher the individual will respond that there were "less than ten" or "fewer than ten". Of course because humans have standardized on base 10 as there counting system then ten will get bumped up in any distribution but to predict that it would occur between six and seven (the number of man and divinity no less) would be difficult.
What about 11 to 20? Hmm, it (roughly) goes: twenty, twelve, fifteen, eleven, eighteen, fourteen, sixteen, thirteen, seventeen, nineteen! Just what I expected :)
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#20Try "war": ( http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=war&year_star... ). Nice peaks on WWI, WWII, and Vietnam; maybe a tiny peak on the Gulf War. Any other search terms where you can see meaningful fluctuations?
And you didn't try War and Peace? I did. Which term occurs more often in the corpus do you reckon? Try going back to 1500. Are you surprised? How about trying Love and War for all you hippies out there. What does this all say about humanity?