Interesting Ngrams: February 2013

28 February 2013

.. 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=

27 February 2013

cashpoint

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cashpoint&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

26 February 2013

going forward

This "popular" phrase is quite old but perhaps the context matters?
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=going+forward&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

22 February 2013

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=

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=

12 February 2013

literature search

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=literature+search&year_start=1930&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

5 February 2013

apprentice

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=apprentice&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

hard disk

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hard+disk&year_start=1955&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

Get off my case

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Get+off+my+case&year_start=1950&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=

3 February 2013

emotional support

Although this term started entering books around 1940, it was the 1970s that
saw it really take off.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=emotional+support&year_start=1908&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Male Chauvinist Pig

This term of abuse used by some feminists is no longer as "popular" as it
once was
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Male+Chauvinist+Pig&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=

Ministry of War,Ministry of Defence

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Ministry+of+War%2CMinistry+of+Defence&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Google,AltaVista,Lycos

These three are or were "famous" Search Engines.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Google%2CAltaVista%2CLycos&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

2 February 2013

Motorway

A child of the 1950s but wrtten about a little earlier.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Motorway&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=2&share=

pop festival

Unknown in 1960 but 10 years later had exploded before declining after 1975.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pop+festival&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=2&share=

chicken tikka masala

Sometimes claimed as a British "national dish" it was little mentioned before
1985. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chicken+tikka+masala&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=2&share=

latchkey kid

A latchkey kid or latchkey child is a child who returns from school to an empty
home because his or her parent or parents are away at work, or a child who is
often left at home with little or no parental supervision.

It's said to have been coined in 1944 but took some decades to catch on.

See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latchkey_kid
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=latchkey+kid&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=2&share=

motorist

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=motorist&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

filling station

A place to buy petrol for your car. Initially marks the rise of mass-ownership of
cars but perhaps then becomes so commonplace that it's less often written
about
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=filling+station&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

garden centre

A place to buy plants amongst other things
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=garden+centre&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

geek,nerd

The words "geek" and "nerd" seem to have grown from around 1980
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=geek%2Cnerd&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

CMOS

I remember working with this low power technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS back in the mid-1970s when it first came out.
Seems to be long-lived.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=CMOS&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

UKIP

The growth of a political party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKIP
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=UKIP&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

The Archers

This one didn't turn out as I expected. By capitalising both words, I hoped to
pick up references to the BBC radio "soap" "The Archers" which started in
1950.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=The+Archers&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Godfather

The growth after around 1970 may be because of the books/films written by
Mario Puzo
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Godfather&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

anti-oppressive practice

This is an interesting modern concept in Social Work

Social work is known to be a �caring profession� but ... there may be a �care
versus control� issue, because where there is care there is responsibility, and
therefore control, and power. Practitioners need to be fully aware of the power
(im)balance between service users and providers in order to work in an anti-
oppressive manner. Otherwise, so-called anti-oppressive practice can be
criticised as �a gloss to help [social work] to feel better about what it is
required to do�

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-oppressive_practice
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=anti-oppressive+practice&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Mountain bike

People were riding bicycles up mountains almost as soon as the bike was
invented but the term seems to be unknown before around 1982
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mountain+bike&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

Are we nearly there yet?

This expression, commonly attributed to children on long car jouneys goes in
and out of fashion.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Are+we+nearly+there+yet&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=