Sunday, September 13, 2015

Maths and literature. Together. At last.

If you want to know more about the occurrence of "heavy metal", "free-kick" or "moustache" in English literature (which would make you fascinating individuals), or if you're into big-picture analysis (wink wink Terminale students) here's a website for you : https://books.google.com/ngrams

Here you'll learn for instance that "fish and chips" was not a major subject in English literature until 1904, whereas "haggis" has been a trending topic since the 1830s !


Have fun, you bookworms!

7 comments:

  1. If you want to see when a word started being used in English, then you go to the site and type it in. You discover that nobody used the expression Sherlock Holmes before the 1880s (not surprising!) or that use of the word "punk" increased dramatically in the 1970s, or "rock'n'roll" in the fifties...

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  2. I love how most examples used are related to metal/rock/punk ^^

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  3. i just spend like hour and a half writing every word in english that i know.

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  4. does this only work for english words?

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  5. It's so funny ! Ashley, you can choose the language I tried in French it's really funny :') !

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