Saturday, December 25, 2010

Merry Christmas from Google Ngram

This graph represents the usage of Merry Christmas in library books over the last 500 years:

 Try your own searches at Ngrams.GoogleLabs.com.

2 comments:

  1. Capitalization matters: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Merry+Christmas,merry+christmas&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

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