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Re:Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words by celticjames on Saturday December 18, 2010 @02:52PM (#2020124)
Multiple meanings for 'tits' are also a consideration. (Maybe my monitor or eyes suck, but I had to do a tits vs fuck only ngram search to see that the big spike is in fact tits.)
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Re:Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words by gjm11 on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:24PM (#2020191)
I think either your monitor or your eyes must in fact fu- I mean suck, because the big bulge (it's not exactly a spike) is for "fuck", not for "tits".

(And most of it does in fact seem to be for wrongly-OCRed "suck", unsurprisingly.)

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Re:Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words by pavel_lishin on Saturday December 18, 2010 @11:20PM (#2021071)
Note the long-s discussion earlier in this submission.

Maybe life just really fucked back then.

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Re:Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words by nzmsv on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:18PM (#2020176)
Yes, a quick look at the actual search hits shows that most of these books are in fact about birds, and a couple hits are citations and refer to a last name.
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