Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Google Ngram Viewer

Google has a new feature where you can graph the frequency of words used in books over the years.  The graph above charts carnivore (in blue) and vegetarian (in red).  You can see a huge increase in the use of the word vegetarian since 1980.  You can go to http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ to graph your own selection of words.
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