Google Ngram roughly confirms my hypothesis about the timing of the rise of the word “relationship.” Use roughly doubled from 1950 to 1970, and reached its current plateau in the mid-80s.
Google Ngram roughly confirms my hypothesis about the timing of the rise of the word “relationship.” Use roughly doubled from 1950 to 1970, and reached its current plateau in the mid-80s.
Dec 19 2010
Jon Stewart milked much hilarity after Bush publicly anointed himself "the Decider." While reading Ralph Raico's new book, I discovered that compared to Woodrow Wilson, Bush was a modest man:When foreign affairs play a prominent part in the politics and policy of a nation, its Executive must of necessity be its g...
Dec 19 2010
On p. 114 of The Symbolic Uses of Politics, Murray Edelman writes, Force signals weakness in politics, as rape does in sex. Some reactions to this metaphor: 1. This suggests that there is political power that is not based on force, but is based on consent. Dan Klein's essay on Overlordship touches on this issue. ...
Dec 18 2010
Google Ngram roughly confirms my hypothesis about the timing of the rise of the word "relationship." Use roughly doubled from 1950 to 1970, and reached its current plateau in the mid-80s.
READER COMMENTS
Pandaemoni
Dec 19 2010 at 12:28am
Though the word “relation” meaning a family member dates back to the 1500s, so “relationship” is not that big a stretch.
Troy Camplin
Dec 19 2010 at 12:32am
“Significant other”
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=significant+other&year_start=1850&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3
has a much earlier beginning than one would think
Jacob Oost
Dec 19 2010 at 6:04pm
Oh my gosh, how did I not know about this? Ngram is my new toy, what a great Christmas present! For fun, try these word pairings: Coke/Pepsi, Stalin/Hitler, North/South, East/West, Mac/PC, Chaplin/Keaton, etc.
Stalin/Hitler is probably the most interesting graph so far.
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