It's been nearly three years since Google rolled out its Ngram Viewer, allowing armchair historians to plot the trajectories of words and phrases over time based on an enormous corpus of data ...

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Google’s Ngram Viewer for Google Books, a tool that lets you see how the usage of specific words has increased and decreased over time, just got an update. The Ngram Viewer now draws upon a larger ...

You may never get through all 500 billion words from more than 5 million books over five centuries. But you can find out, for instance, that "smartphone" is a lot older than you think. Lance Whitney ...

One of the unsung heroes of Google’s bevy of reference tools is the Google Books Ngram Viewer. As Google has scanned millions of dead-tree books, it’s indexed the terms referenced in them, and the ...

Google Ngram Viewer is a tool that allows users to search for a word or phrase in Google's vast collection of digitized books and graph the results. A lot of what you find exploring Ngram is pretty ...

There's an Ngram Challenge at the end of this post, so read to the end, people! (Or skip to the end, what do I care? I'm not proud.) Like a kid throwing eggs on Halloween, I'd like to lob a few of my ...

At age 14, I began reading my first Shakespeare play—Romeo and Juliet—for English class. It only took a line or two before my first profound, literary thought began to percolate: “This is English?!” ...