A "maser" produces microwaves instead of visible light. and preceded the
laser by several years.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=laser%2Cmaser&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=
Inspired by http://books.google.com/ngrams/ which is where Google has been scanning books and indexing the words in them. You can track the history of words and phrases you are interested in and show how often they come up "in print". This blog shows words and phrases I thought were interesting.
29 March 2013
27 March 2013
managed decline
Crops up in Wikipedia articles about retail products, EG:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker_Cider
Seems to mean that the product is still available but it's not being pushed.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=managed+decline&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker_Cider
Seems to mean that the product is still available but it's not being pushed.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=managed+decline&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=
24 March 2013
19 March 2013
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=
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=yeah+whatever&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=
11 March 2013
workfare
The word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workfare is fairly new but the idea is
ancient. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=workfare&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=
ancient. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=workfare&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=
9 March 2013
Household Reference Person
This term is a replacement for Head of the Household used in surveys, etc.
See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21698533
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=household+reference+person&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=
See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21698533
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=household+reference+person&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=
8 March 2013
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