Monday, April 11, 2011

Google Ngrams!

Google has a very fun tool out, working through a dataset of all the words from the books they have scanned.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

It's great fun to check on different spellings! (I still prefer connexion, who cares if it pretty much died out in 1860)


And you can search for multiple things. I think this graph says something about the type of books that are out there. 'You' is just like a smoothed out curve of 'I', and 'me' is a slightly smoother 'you', but the proportions stay pretty consistent.

Check it out for yourself, very fun.

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