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)
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)
They are like the Mormons. Mormons are trying to baptise everyone who ever lived, and google is retrospectively indexing history.Blimey, I didn't realise that Google had been around so long...
Doesn't add much.you missed out "Green eggs and ham"
Me either, cant stand the smellNeither as i dont do eggs
Me either, cant stand the smell
Ok as an ingredient in cake of course
And of the colours of the MCC.Eggs and bacon is the name of a plant.
Thankyou for showing me how to use the Google Ngram viewer.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?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)
Same graph, restricted to British English. Too late on a Sunday to analyse it, so posted without comment.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?
Rules out dr. Seuss, on the green eggs and ham though. That should have peaked late 60-early 61Same graph, restricted to British English. Too late on a Sunday to analyse it, so posted without comment.
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