Ngrams that I find interesting

Jan 27, 2011 23:51

The usual caveats about relying on book corpuses, Google's sometimes horrendous metadata, etc.

Sentence-initial 'However'.

The sad decline of the single quotation mark. (Edit: Actually I misread the labels and actually this is a happy rise.)

Composers.

The moon and the stars have decoupled in recent years.

Decline of the subjunctive (or whatever Geoff Pullum thinks it should be called).

Sub-atomic particles.

BEC stuff.

Mom.

David Barry. My knighted namesake died in 1835.

language

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