Google unveiled a new product called "Ngram Viewer". Based on my (limited) understanding, Google has scanned a zillion books from the past million years. And using this data, you can search for word(s) and see how frequently they have been used over the years. This is my favorite one I've seen so far:
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this is pretty awesome.
ReplyDelete"british" is interesting
so is "soviet"
"foxy" is a good one also or "lad" or "hot sauce"
check "fuck" earlier than 1800 it's way higher than it is now. why is that?
ReplyDeletedamn might have been higher if you had spelled it correctly
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