December 2010
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
Endless entertainment. Google took the words from every book in its catalogue and saved them in a database, by the year they were used in the particular book. You can see a graph of usage, and can type in multiple names to see how trends compare. It covers the period from 1800 to 2008.
The most interesting one I’ve done so far is “guns.” Try that one. The word peaks in the...