Historical Popularity
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 5:56 pm
Here's a word count program attached to Google Books, I think, searching for the phrase "trombone" and counting its frequency, smoothed over I think five years for clarity:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=trombone&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=5&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctrombone%3B%2Cc0
I can't think of what was happening in 1980, but the general decline I understand pretty well.
Try some of your own phrases. This tool is cool.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=trombone&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=5&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctrombone%3B%2Cc0
I can't think of what was happening in 1980, but the general decline I understand pretty well.
Try some of your own phrases. This tool is cool.