George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words: 1800-2008
Google Books has digitized over 15 million books. Yesterday, they released an interesting tool called the Ngram Viewer, which shows how authors have historically used words since 1800. I plugged in George Carlin’s famous seven dirty words and learned that we didn’t start swearing in books till the 1960’s… apart from a brief period of popularity for “fuck” in the early 1800’s. See the full chart.
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fuck prior to 1800: //ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fuck&year_start=1500&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
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nicely done, sir.
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