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Old 12-20-2010, 06:30 PM   #1
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Googles new book/word search
Google has a new toy out: The Google Ngram Viewer

Now that they have digitized a bizillion books from the 1500's on you can do a search for word use over time. For example: "Lounge" was used briefly around 1650 and has been trending up since the 1750's.



It took me a second to figure out the mid 1600's spike in this search:

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