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

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

When it was first announced, I checked out "multiverse".

Then I said to myself, "Thought so."

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

?

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

The claim was that "multiverse" was coined by Michael Moorcock, a claim that I was always skeptical of.

Note that the graph starts to hover above 0.00000200% after 1920, and stays in that range for the next 75 years, after which it starts to zoom upwards.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Apparently William James was fond of the word, and lots of people cite him.