On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Charlene Brusso <[email protected]> wrote:

> I wonder what the spike is for mysteries around 1630?
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Shakespeare's Tempest, Marlowe's Faust, the general interest in magic and
theater. I guess.  I don't know how these graphs work.  I think they are
based on the number of times the word "mystery" is used in English writing.
Try it with "penny dreadful."  Or "vaudeville."

Sarah/Sally


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>  On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:06 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Obviously, you should be writing fantasy instead.
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>> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fantasy&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
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>> Now, if somebody could possibly explain mystery to me:
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>> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=mystery&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
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>> Steve
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