It does not make *much* difference, but it is a good idea to add in, for any words that are spelled with an s, the same word spelled with an f, to catch the wrongly OCR's long-tail s in the C18 (and also turn on case-insensitive). https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=design%2Cdefign&case_insensiti ve=on&year_start=1500&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url= t4%3B%2Cdesign%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdesign%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDesign%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4 %3B%2Cdefign%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdefign%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDefign%3B%2Cc0 As has been discussed many times on the list, we need to be wary of regarding the word design as meaning the same thing in the past as it means now (discuss ad infinitum). Stephen Stephen Boyd Davis Professor of Design Research School of Design Royal College of Art Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU E [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> T (Sharmin Choudhury, School Administrator) +44 (0)20 7590 4352 T (personal) +44 (0)20 7590 4343 www.rca.ac.uk twitter.com/RCADesRes facebook.com/RCA.London From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Stanislav Roudavski <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, 26 September 2016 at 10:11 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [PHD-DESIGN] hm... > https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=design&year_start=1500&year_end= > 2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdesign%3B%2Cc0 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> > Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design > Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------