How did I miss this?
In last weekend's Washington Post magazine, Gene Weingarten's column referenced Google's NGram viewer. I had never heard of it, but this viewer could provide hours of fun.
In Weingarten's words, the tool "lets you see, on a timeline graph, the comparative popularity of any two or more words, phrases or names, judged by the frequency of their mentions in the millions of English language books Google has digitized."
Genius!
Check it out — but only when you have a couple hours to spare because it's addictive.
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