Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Ngrams

When you google the definition of a word, google also provides a history of the word's prevalence over the last century, which they've called "n-grams." Sometimes these make an interesting social comment, as in the decline of using "ladies and gentlemen", or the rise of the word chicken at the expense of the word beef. 

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