I rarely chime in here, but this is a very interesting conversation and a great use of Google's tools.
Now, does anyone have an explanation for the bizarre pattern of the f-word? Rick Taubold www.ricktaubold.com Latest novel: Vampires Anonymous From: Sal Armoniac Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 12:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Missed it! Look, Ma! You can do it with any word. Here's "obscene" (brought into English by Shakespeare). It enjoys no usage in the latter half of the seventeenth century, is whispered nervously in the eighteenth, gains strength in the nineteenth and totally explodes in the late twentieth! :) What, are we not finding things as obscene as before? Sally http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=obscene&year_start=1500&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]> wrote: I was right. Here's "vaudeville." http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=vaudeville&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]> wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Charlene Brusso <[email protected]> wrote: I wonder what the spike is for mysteries around 1630? Shakespeare's Tempest, Marlowe's Faust, the general interest in magic and theater. I guess. I don't know how these graphs work. I think they are based on the number of times the word "mystery" is used in English writing. Try it with "penny dreadful." Or "vaudeville." Sarah/Sally -cb On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:06 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: Obviously, you should be writing fantasy instead. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fantasy&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 Now, if somebody could possibly explain mystery to me: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=mystery&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- Charlene Brusso -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
