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A comment on Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 years.

Re:Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 years by iunk on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @02:52PM (#2490614)
I don't know in what context they could use Geek in 1800. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=geek&year_sta...
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Re:Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 years by Groxx on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @02:56PM (#2490630)
Or the 1700s: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=geek&year_sta...

Perhaps weirder, "Woot": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Woot&year_sta...

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Re:Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 years by iunk on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @03:01PM (#2490645)
Seems like some are incorrect when i look at the scanned pages and one of those says Geck instead of Geek http://books.google.com/books?id=gvYqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA497&#...
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Re:Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 years by Groxx on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @03:09PM (#2490676)
Ah, good point. This is generated by OCR + reCAPTCHA, error is guaranteed to creep in.
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