Dear colleagues,
The meaning of particular words and phrases is a common topic of
discussion on this list, this tool from google may be of interest to
the linguists and etymologists among us. The Google Books Ngram Viewer
allows you to graph how often phrases have occurred in the world's
books from 1400 through the present day.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-books-ngram-viewer.html
for instance art vs. design vs. science
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=art%2C+design%2C+science&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
best
Luke Feast
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne
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