.set('corpus','15');// Englishparams.set('smoothing','0');constresponse=awaitfetch('https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?'+params.toString());constresponseText=awaitresponse.text();constmatch=regexp.exec(responseText);constjson=match[1];returnJSON.parse(json);}module.exports={fetchNgram...
Google's Ngram Viewer is anonlinetool to learn about words. It looks at the words from Google books to show how often people use words over time and in what places. We used the Google Ngram Viewer to compare British and American usage of the three words. The first ngram looked at Br...
Google’s Ngram Vieweris a great tool to use for identifying the usage trends of "indices" vs. "indexes" in publications since the 1800s. The history of the usage of the word usually favors "indices" but as adoption of the Americanized plural of words increased, the word "indexes" began...
So today Will Brockman and I are happy to announce a new visualization tool called the Google Books Ngram Viewer, available on Google Labs. We're also making the datasets backing the Ngram Viewer, produced by Matthew Gray and intern Yuan K. Shen, freely downloadable so that scholars will ...
is an exclamation that was popular during the era of World War 1. Crumb probably heard it on one of his 78 records from that time. Example of its use: "Boy Howdy is it hot!" Google Ngram Viewer seems to bear this out: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?...
Pail, sad to say, is utterly lacking in this regard. EDIT: Taking a look through Google's N-Gram viewer, it's not hard to see why: This comparison of bucket and pail from 1800 till today shows the latter's usage diverging noticeably from the former's around the era of 1940–1960,...
[...] Despite these occasional mentions, public discourse about virtue is muted. To abuse a recent parlour game, below is a graph of the rate of occurrence of the words "virtue" and "technology" in Google's Ngram Viewer, which plots frequency of words occurring in books over time. We ...
Relative frequency ofprescriptivism,prescriptivist,descriptivism, anddescriptivistin published books since 1800. All four terms took off in the 1960s, after the publication ofWebster’s Third New International Dictionary.Google Books Ngram Viewer. ...
Fax is the short form of “fax machine,”“facsimile,”“telefax,” and “telefacsimile.” It is a printed copy of a document or picture sent over a phone line.“Fax machine” became the more popular term around 1987. Before that,”telefax,”“facsimile machine,” and “telefacsimile” ...
Randomically is not a word known to specialists and having a technical meaning (even an obscure one), because nobody is using it in published works – it is not found anywhere in the Google Books corpus (see: Google Ngram Viewer), nor has any lexicographer discovered the word and include...