5 April 2013

welfare dependency

A child of the 1960s, this term shows peaks around 1973/4, 1988 and 1996.
This does look to correlatesome what with a Conservative government
approaching a General Election
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=welfare+dependency&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

benefit fraud

The term "benefit fraud" seems unknown before 1970. It does seem to go in
and out of fashion and there is no close connection with the UK party in power
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=benefit+fraud&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

19 March 2013

digital camera

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=digital+camera&year_start=1988&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

photograph

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=photograph&year_start=1820&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

computer

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=computer&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

electronic

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=electronic&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

social worker

A creature of the twentieth century
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+worker&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

social enterprise

Not a modern term at all.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+enterprise&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

yeah whatever

This phrase attributed to insolent teeenagers appears to be very recent.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=yeah+whatever&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

28 February 2013

I got it for free

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=I+got+it+for+free&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

shopping cart

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shopping+cart&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

touch base

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=touch+base&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

least worst option

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=least+worst+option&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

Can I get a

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Can+I+get+a&year_start=1788&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

at this moment in time

.. a long version of "now"
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=at+this+moment+in+time&year_start=1928&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

lord of the dance

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Lord+of+the+dance%2Clord+of+the+dance&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

22 February 2013

ftpmail

Another short-lived Internet technology. Ftpmail servers would email you a file
in response to a specially formatted email request. It was an alternative to
getting the file directly from the FTP server. It was useful to the many people
who didn't have true Internet access - just email. It was also good if access to
the file you wanted was rather poor - you got the ftpmail server to do all the
waiting for you.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ftpmail&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

gopher

As well as being a small animal, gopher was an Internet protocol delivering
services somewhat similar to the web. It had a short lifespan in the mid-1990s.

More information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gopher&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

president@whitehouse.gov

Possibly the most famous email address in the world
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=president@whitehouse.gov&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Influenza,influenza

This ngram is partly about initial letter capitalisation but also shows a peak
after the 1918 & 1957-8 pandemics. The peak around 1935 may reflect
development of the first vacines.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Influenza%2Cinfluenza&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

Paramedic

I was fairly sure this is a modern word and so it would seem - almost unknown
before 1970
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Paramedic&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Paralympics

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Paralympics&year_start=1968&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Milton Keynes

The New Town of Milton Keynes was officially designated on 23 January 1967
although there was a village of the same name on the site before then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Milton+Keynes&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Long Lartin

This is the name of a prison in Worcestershire, UK opened in 1971. The ngram
suggests that rather than the name being taken from an existing geographical
place, it was invented for the prison. The peak just after 1995 may reflect
upgrading as a result of the Woodcock/Learmont reports.

More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Long_Lartin

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Long+Lartin&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

14 February 2013

Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Jones,_Baron_Jones_of_Cheltenham was
the first Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham. He got elected in 1992 and
served until 2005. The decline in wring about him after 2005 may be because
of his retirement from politics but also because he's now "The Lord Jones of
Cheltenham".

Another possibility is a systemic issue with the Ngram engine - the curve for
many subjects takes a dip after around 2005.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Nigel+Jones&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

4 February 2013

satelite

As well as being an astronomical term, it was used to refer to allies of the
Soviet Union
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=satelite&year_start=1780&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

Xenon,Neon,Argon,Krypton

"Noble gases"
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Xenon%2CNeon%2CArgon%2CKrypton&year_start=1850&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

Uranium,Radium,Plutonium

Some radioactive elements
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Uranium%2CRadium%2CPlutonium&year_start=1850&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

common cold

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=common+cold&year_start=1850&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

Australia

The first time that the name Australia appears to have been officially used was
in a despatch to Lord Bathurst of 4 April 1817 in which Governor Lachlan
Macquarie acknowledges the receipt of Capt. Flinders' charts of Australia. On
12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be
formally adopted. In 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be
known officially as Australia.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Etymology
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Australia&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=