You may not have heard about the latest offering from Google Labs, but it’s impressive, and addictive too. It’s a simple user interface that lets you graph the varying rate at which words and phrases have appeared in books over time. Enter your word or phrase, and see a graph. Bada-bing!
Read about it here, and take it for a spin at ngrams.googlelabs.com.
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I typed in “nasticles” and it flatlined.
Try a real word. Like “rusticles“.
That’s a hero from a Greek myth, right? Or something that happens to our balls as we get older.
Try “magnetic tape.”
Flint, buggy whip and spam are interesting.
Gonad peaked in 1963. Who’d a thunk.
sorry, no more wine for me.
That first one’s kind of sad.
I dunno Kevin, I think it was some guy featured in something that Eyetalian guy Boccaccio tweeted about.