Between 1780 and 1790, this word was very popular, and drearily fizzled out. "Lucubration": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=lucubration&year_start=1500&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]> wrote: > Look, Ma! You can do it with any word. Here's "obscene" (brought into > English by Shakespeare). It enjoys no usage in the latter half of the > seventeenth century, is whispered nervously in the eighteenth, gains > strength in the nineteenth and totally explodes in the late twentieth! :) > What, are we not finding things as obscene as before? > > Sally > > > http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=obscene&year_start=1500&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 > > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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.
