Google's Ngram Viewer

[Paul B. Gallagher]

R. M. Cleminson wrote:

> ----- Originálna správa -----
> Odosielateľ: "Anne Fisher"<anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM>
> Komu: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Dátum: sobota, december 18, 2010 11:19:29
> Predmet: Re: [SEELANGS] Google's Ngram Viewer
>

> This is fascinating. Thank you, Steve. Interesting that срам (sram),
> according to this, seems to have boomed in popularity in the
> post-1917 years... and oddly enough, шлюха (shliukha) - excuse me -
> seems to have been in 100% of the books around 1995? Any
> statisticians out there who can give the background to these figures
> (i.e. how much we can rely on the graphs' alluring visuals)?
>
> Unfortunately the tool does not take account of orthographical
> reform. The boom in срам after 1917 is matched by a corresponding
> decline in срамъ.

Ms. Fisher should also look more closely at the scale on the y-axis. The 
figure is not 100%, but 0.0000100%.

She might also like to follow the link at the bottom of the page:

<http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info>

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