Today we’ll talk
about Google Ngram. You can find it here.
As you might know,
Google scanned a lot of books, which you can search and preview with Google
books (books.google.com). With Google Ngram, you can
see how many times (in percent) a word was used in books of a certain year.
With this tool, you can see how widely a word was used in a certain time
period. For example, type in the word “war”. In the graph you can see two spikes;
they are unsurprisingly at the two world wars. You can also type in “war,
peace” and compare the two words. Go ahead and try; type in words that come to
your mind. Try “dog, cat” or “pencil, pen” or maybe also words from this
podcast. You will find interesting results. For example, the word “Google” was
more present in books around 1900 than in 2000!
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amazing insights to: awordaweek@hotmail.de
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