Fun with Google NGram Viewer, Which Views N-Grams

[beamjockey]

I am fascinated by Google NGram Viewer, by the Science paper that accompanied its announcement, and by the 88-page supplemental material that accompanied the paper.

best practice, best practices
big picture
bionic, cyborg
bottom line
brainstorm, brainstorming
critical thinking
cybernetics, cybernetic, cyberspace
deliverables, deliverable
mission statement
network, networking
rocket science, not rocket science, not exactly rocket science
run it up the flagpole
synergy, synergistic, synergism
23 skidoo
year 2000

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

A REALLY odd one

antigravity, Dean drive, spindizzy, Bussard ramjet

Not at all the graph I expected to see!

[whl.livejournal.com]

"Dean drive" can be a street, or a character action. Inertialess was interesting, though.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

That looks to me like it's just noisy because the terms are really quite uncommon in the corpus.