Eggs & bacon, bacon & eggs

[jefmcg]

But eggs and ham gets 18,000 more hits in the Google corpus of the English language than ham and eggs.

That's not the way to compare usage via google.

This is.

(usage peaked during the war, apparently. Maybe rationing made people write about it a lot more)

 

[NorthernDave]

That's not the way to compare usage via google.

This is.

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(usage peaked during the war, apparently. Maybe rationing made people talk about it a lot more)

Blimey, I didn't realise that Google had been around so long...

 

[GuyBoden]

I've tried "Chips&Fish" once, they didn't taste as good as "Fish&Chips"

 

[PK99]

That's not the way to compare usage via google.

This is.

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(usage peaked during the war, apparently. Maybe rationing made people write about it a lot more)

you missed out "Green eggs and ham"

 

[jefmcg]

Blimey, I didn't realise that Google had been around so long...

They are like the Mormons. Mormons are trying to baptise everyone who ever lived, and google is retrospectively indexing history.

you missed out "Green eggs and ham"

Doesn't add much.

 

[LarryDuff]

Just bacon for me. Don't eat eggs.

 

[cyberknight]

Neither as i dont do eggs

Me either, cant stand the smell

Ok as an ingredient in cake of course

 

[robjh]

always 'egg and bacon'. Even if you had more than one egg it would still be 'egg and bacon'.

 

[biggs682]

Me either, cant stand the smell

Ok as an ingredient in cake of course

Agree on both accounts

 

[Tim Hall]

Eggs and bacon is the name of a plant.

And of the colours of the MCC.

 

[robjh]

That's not the way to compare usage via google.

This is.

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(usage peaked during the war, apparently. Maybe rationing made people write about it a lot more)

Thankyou for showing me how to use the Google Ngram viewer.

 

[Tim Hall]

My BIL refers to them as "rashers and eggs", which is Just Wrong.

 

[swee'pea99]

That's not the way to compare usage via google.

This is.

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(usage peaked during the war, apparently. Maybe rationing made people write about it a lot more)

That's amazing. I'd never heard of ngram. Fascinating. The most interesting thing to me about that particular diagram is the way it shows eggs & bacon well ahead right through the 19th century, but suddenly and decisively leap-frogged by bacon & eggs during WWI, which then holds a clear lead right through the 20th century - a lead it's held up to the current day. Could that be American coming into the language with troops sent over during the war?

 

[jefmcg]

That's amazing. I'd never heard of ngram. Fascinating. The most interesting thing to me about that particular diagram is the way it shows eggs & bacon well ahead right through the 19th century, but suddenly and decisively leap-frogged by bacon & eggs during WWI, which then holds a clear lead right through the 20th century - a lead it's held up to the current day. Could that be American coming into the language with troops sent over during the war?

Same graph, restricted to British English. Too late on a Sunday to analyse it, so posted without comment.

 

[classic33]

Same graph, restricted to British English. Too late on a Sunday to analyse it, so posted without comment.

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Rules out dr. Seuss, on the green eggs and ham though. That should have peaked late 60-early 61