I love the new features in the Ngram viewer. One of the favorite ones a colleague discovered, is what things we are "pulling out" over time. Turns out it has gone from "watch" to "wallet" to "cell":
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pulled+out+his+*&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Cpulled%20out%20his%20%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20wallet%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20watch%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20gun%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20handkerchief%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20pistol%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20knife%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20revolver%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20cell%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20sword%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20own%3B%2Cc0
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pulled+out+his+*&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Cpulled%20out%20his%20%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20wallet%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20watch%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20gun%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20handkerchief%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20pistol%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20knife%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20revolver%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20cell%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20sword%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpulled%20out%20his%20own%3B%2Cc0
Our new Ngram Viewer is live!
http://books.google.com/ngrams/
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/10/enhancing-linguistic-search-with-google.html
(Kudos to Slav Petrov, Dipanjan Das, and Google summer interns Jason Mann, Lu Yang, and David Zhang for their fantastic improvements!)
http://books.google.com/ngrams/
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/10/enhancing-linguistic-search-with-google.html
(Kudos to Slav Petrov, Dipanjan Das, and Google summer interns Jason Mann, Lu Yang, and David Zhang for their fantastic improvements!)
Google Ngram Viewer
I hope I don't spend too much time playing with this now. It would be nice to be able to combine wildcards and case-insensitivity, though. Or even regular expressions…