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Historical Popularity

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 5:56 pm
by ttf_baileyman
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. 



Historical Popularity

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:33 am
by ttf_SilverBone
Cool tool.  Compare with "guitar" for a reference point.

Historical Popularity

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:33 am
by ttf_SilverBone
Cool tool.  Compare with "guitar" for a reference point.