I was right. Here's "vaudeville." http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=vaudeville&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Charlene Brusso <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I wonder what the spike is for mysteries around 1630? >> > > 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 > > >> >> -cb >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:06 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Obviously, you should be writing fantasy instead. >>> >>> >>> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fantasy&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 >>> >>> Now, if somebody could possibly explain mystery to me: >>> >>> >>> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=mystery&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Charlene Brusso >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
