Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer • Hacker News Board

msbmsb wrote: post #14

one,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".

1,2,3,one,two,three

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=1%2C2%2C3%2Cone%2...

for a short period of time in the 80s and 90s, 1 was more popular than one, where from the 1700s through 1950s, 1 was half as popular as one ...

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by jpwagner » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 11:04 PM UTC

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=do+it+all+by+your...

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by hanibash » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 11:05 PM UTC

Someone please explain why "I love you" is cyclical???

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=i+love+you&ye...

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by jpwagner » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 11:05 PM UTC

jpwagner wrote: post #34

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=do+it+all+by+your...

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can+you+help+me,l...

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by ddlatham » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 11:11 PM UTC

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=color,colour&...

Note the effects of the world wars.

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by boredguy8 » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 11:15 PM UTC

boredguy8 wrote: post #32

quick brown fox, brown fox, slow brown fox http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=quick+brown+fox,b... Am I reading that correctly: People rarely talk about brown foxes without mentioning their speed, which is never slow? More importantly: if I wrote and published a book about a slow brown fox, could I potentially do to foxes what Chomsky did to green ideas?

wizard,magician,Harry Potter http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=wizard,magician,H...

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by jjclarkson » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 11:16 PM UTC

I think overuse of the word "cool" might finally be heading downward. And it's interesting to see the blips in the 70's and 80's of "groovy" and "rad" respectively.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=cool%2Chip%2Cgroo...