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[JackRiddler]

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None of That Matters Today

I just spent three hours shoveling!

[jingofever]

Seven and eight almost completely overlap.











The last four are from English Fiction.

[eyeno]

How come when I put two words in it totally flatlines one of my words sometimes?

[jingofever]

How come when I put two words in it totally flatlines one of my words sometimes?

One of the words has a much higher frequency than the other.



If you look at British English, the damned Spaniards and damned Japs go away.



That spike is similar to a Klansman's hood. Or a dunce's cap.

[Stephen Morgan]

[82_28]

I've long known that cilantro basically only showed up somewhere in my childhood. I just remember never hearing about it and then all of a sudden all the Mexican joints started using it and you began to find it in supermarkets. Confirmation:



Here's a somewhat odd one, I think.



I would have thought the word "apple" would be victorious here and it was modestly for a time. However, this demonstrates how much the most popular use of the word "Windows" has become bastardized by a closed source, proprietary, marketed meaning and not what traditional windows actually are. One would think the word "windows" wasn't even in use until MSFT came along. "Penguins" oddly went up at about the same rate "windows" did, only a little bit before and then leveled off. (Damn this is a sweet toy!)



What were they saying about "email" in 1860?

[82_28]

What did people eat before 1860?

[82_28]

I remember reading an old magazine from back in the day which reported that pizza had overtaken fried chicken as America's favorite fast food. This confirms it as well and also demonstrates that fast food, back when pizza did overtake fried chicken wasn't the kind of a "staple" in our diets as it is today as you see pizza sky rocket. You can also see the birth of the burger joints and then later the addition of french fries to accompany every respectable burger.

[JackRiddler]

Still A Long Way to Go...

...before my favorite industry is finally called by its proper name (see lowest line).

However, the growth is phenomenal:

That thing at the top is just a bump. We are nowhere near Peak Bullshit.

82_28: Nice ones. Note that case matters. (Or Case Matters, if you prefer.)

However, even here we see that Windows exceeded the generic windows for several years (it will now decline to the favor of "the cloud") and Apple almost caught up with apple back in the 1980s.





Email is an archaic German term for enamel.

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[JackRiddler]

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Okay, one more round and I really gotta get back to work...





(Just checked and cop and cops are used about equally.)
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[jingofever]

Various things to do with time:













A lot of those have a bump around 1920 and another bump around 1940. Is it a war thing? And why is ~1920 a global maximum for some of those?





Very curious.



Another from Carlin.

[JackRiddler]

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I think it's that it became more common to use the numerals instead of words.

[Perelandra]

Forgive me if it's been covered.

[Stephen Morgan]

[JackRiddler]

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Days of the Week
(re-ordered after I saw the results to reflect the current standings)



The Lord's Day has declined but the weekend rules. Friday surpassed Monday in the late 1970s, and the stuck-in-the-middle days are all equally unpopular.

This one will produce an appalled column about the decline of the American work ethic, if the editors of the Wall Street Journal ever see it.

I can't do Chinese (which is what my imagined WSJ editors would want to try for ammo) but here's the German. I kept the days in their calendar order for non-German speakers:



Roughly same story, with the big difference of a far lower standing for Saturday, which is down with the mid-week losers.

One wonders too if there's any significance to all days being mentioned more or less often, depending on period. These are not sudden jumps indicating year-to-year variation that would probably be meaningless, but appear to be smooth upward and downward trends for all days over decades. (The exception is the peak for Sunday on the German chart, during the war and immediate postwar years, a trend which diverges from the other six days -- more people praying?)

Anyway, back to more juvenile pursuits...



Peak Penis was more than 100 years ago!

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