Google Ngram search for a term from books digitized by Google. IMHO a more consistent approach is looking for these terms on the internet. In other words: how much these terms are searched via Google through the years...
Use of "scuba tank" and "scuba cylinder" into the Google search engine in the last 5 years in all the world. https://trends.google.it/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=scuba%20tank,scuba%20cylinder Again "scuba tank" wins On 29 November 2017 at 12:05, Davide DB <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 November 2017 at 01:27, Rick Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just out of interest I decided to look through (use the search function) >> some diving resources on my computer (admittedly mostly tech related - I'll >> see if I can check padi's encyclopedia of recreational diving when I get >> home). It appears we're not the only one who can't decide on tank vs >> cylinder. >> >> Deco for divers: consistent use of cylinder (except when referring to water >> tanks) >> GUE tech 1 manual: mixed use of cylinder and tank throughout, even in the >> same paragraph >> GUE SOPs: mixed use throughout >> Cave Divers Association of Australia training standards: mixed use >> throughout, even within same sentence >> Hollis DG03 user manual: consistent use of tank > > > I'll add mine adding more confusion. > > I used Google Books Ngram viewer to search for the use of these terms > trough the years. I can get result up to 2008. > I run a simple non-case sensitive query for terms: "scuba tank", > "diving tank", "scuba cylinder", "diving cylinder". I was obliged to > add the scuba/diving word otherwise my search would have been too > generic. > > here my results: https://goo.gl/3xDe1n > > Scuba tank wins > > Here its help page showing how complex can be the search > > https://books.google.com/ngrams/info > > > -- > Davide > https://vimeo.com/bocio/videos -- Davide https://vimeo.com/bocio/videos _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
