Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Google Ngram: 'Yiff' in literature since 1830. Holy fucking wow.

The article about the medial 's' also pointed me to Google Ngram viewer, which I hadn't heard about.

It lets you graph the frequency with which words occurred in the Goog's vast repository of scanned books, dating back centuries.

Sometimes with surprising results!

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=yiff&year_start=1830&year_end=2008...

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