Saturday, December 25, 2010

NYTimes: In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture

At ngrams.googlelabs.com, you can search the history of any word's prevalence if usage over 200 years. Most interesting for words that have changed their meaning ("gay") or come into usage ("evolution") or gained acceptance ("suffrage") or had a transient fad ("flapper"). TE
In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture
A Google-backed project allows the frequency of specific words and phrases to be tracked in centuries of books.
http://nyti.ms/eMacup

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