Google NGram

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1. frank
   Posted February 25, 2012 at 9:29 pm | Permalink

   I’m very disappointed.

   http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ngram%2C+diagram&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

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2. Willie
   Posted March 1, 2012 at 9:26 pm | Permalink

   I had run the ngram on the drugs previously, one issue is Heroin is actually a brand name, try it with opium and see the contrast.

   Great site, went out and bought the book off the back of finding it.

   Willie

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   • jm
     Posted March 20, 2012 at 1:43 pm | Permalink

     Another interesting note on the drugs chart. Compare British English to American English. Seems cocaine was far more popular in American English than British English in the Victorian era. Contemporary use of heroin between the two is also interesting.

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3. boen_robot
   Posted March 12, 2012 at 12:13 am | Permalink

   Fun vs. Job

   Apparently, in 18th century, having fun was popular, in 19th, there was an equilibrium of sorts between having fun and having jobs, and from 20th century on we have become more interested in having jobs then having fun (that, or we’ve simply moved the fun in other media). No wonder books are not considered fun in this day and age – they don’t even talk about fun :-D .

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4. Tijn Schmits
   Posted April 2, 2012 at 7:24 am | Permalink

   I want my mommy!

   http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mother%2Cfather%2Cson%2Cdaughter&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

   I can spend hours thinking of interesting relations between words, entering them in Google Ngram, and drawing some pseudo-historical/philosophical conclusions. Information is beautiful.

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5. Sophie
   Posted April 2, 2012 at 8:03 pm | Permalink

   http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=philosophy%2Cpolitics&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
   Philosophy and politics have interesting crossovers.

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6. SImon
   Posted April 23, 2012 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

   http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=work%2Clife&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

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7. Ed
   Posted May 4, 2012 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

   Here’s an interesting one, good news in the last few years http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=depression%2Chappiness%2Csadness&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

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8. Niko
   Posted May 16, 2012 at 4:22 am | Permalink

   http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=horse%2Cmotor&year_start=1776&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2 Horse v Motor

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