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A cautionary tale http://communication.org.au/dsblog/?p=9 David -- blog: www.communication.org.au/dsblog web: http://www.communication.org.au Professor David Sless BA MSc FRSA CEO • Communication Research Institute • • helping people communicate with people • Mobile: +61 (0)412 356 795 Phone: +61 (0)3 9489 8640 Skype: davidsless 60 Park Street • Fitzroy North • Melbourne • Australia • 3068 On 18/12/2010, at 1:02 PM, Luke Feast wrote: > 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