Graph the popularity of words over time with Ngram Viewer

[Neal Whitman]

But remember, "ridiculous" can now mean "ridiculously good," as discussed here a couple of years ago when I wrote in about Rachel Ray saying some dish she cooked was "crispy and ridiculous."

Neal

> On Dec 24, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I searched on  https://books.google.com/ngrams
> for words  horrible=2Cterrible=2Cawful=2Clousy=2Cinsane=2Cridiculous=2Cvery=
> bad
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> The graph for all these words (but lousy) rises from 2000 to 2008 (last yea=
> r in database I suppose)
> This corresponds to the rise of terrorism and war.
> Results show that things were twice as terrible as they were horrible or aw=
> ful=2C and 10 times worse than very bad.
> I'm just sayin.
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> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now Fl 9.
> See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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>> See the popularity of terms rise and fall over time.  From   funknet at mail=
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>>   Original post  "... For those of you who have not yet become addicted =
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>> the Ngram Viewer=3D2C it plots the token frequency of words and word str=
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>> A reply "...This is FUN!  I have looked at so many things already=3D2C tr=
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>> the parallel rise of "psycholinguistics" and "sociolinguistics" until the=
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>> Merry Christmas    ~~Mairee Krismis~~
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