Timeline for Where were "should", "shall", and "must" in the 18th Century?
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| Nov 24, 2012 at 12:46 | comment | added | Hugo | @prash: Google has recently improved their OCR. See my answer. | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 18:51 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 1, 2011 at 10:04 | comment | added | prash | @Paul Wagaland: you can have fun with another letter; try ngrams.googlelabs.com/… If you discover more letters, let me know. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 20:13 | comment | added | Paul Wagland | @Billare your comment deserves its own answer, since it definitely shouldn't languish here in the comments! | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 20:08 | comment | added | Paul Wagland | Very interesting answer. It is also amusing to see the effect in other words as well: ngrams.googlelabs.com/… | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 21:55 | comment | added | Uticensis | @Peter Shor See also this blog post, which details exactly when the long s and other ligatures disappeared from different languages, including English, using Google's N Grams. | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 20:41 | comment | added | prash | @DuckMaestro: I now figured out how it's done! | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 20:38 | history | edited | prash | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2011 at 20:33 | comment | added | DuckMaestro | @prash can you include the plot in your answer? that way both images can be compared from this single Q&A. | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 20:30 | comment | added | hippietrail | Great answer to a great question. The version of "s" that looks like "f" is called "long s" and Google's OCR definitely doesn't detect them at all. I tried with ſhould,ſhall,muſt and got zero. | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 17:16 | comment | added | prash | @Prof. Shor: One important (to me) consequence is that it shows why we can't rely on (just) Google NGrams to settle questions about early Modern English. | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 17:02 | vote | accept | Peter Shor | ||
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| Aug 28, 2011 at 17:01 | comment | added | Peter Shor | So it was Google Ngrams. | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 15:35 | history | edited | prash | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2011 at 15:11 | history | edited | prash | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2011 at 15:10 | comment | added | prash | Yup. I changed the time period in my link now. | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 15:04 | history | edited | prash | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2011 at 15:03 | comment | added | Jeremy | It looks like this is right! ngrams.googlelabs.com/… shows that the fall of should is accompanied by an equal rise in fhould, etc. | |
| Aug 28, 2011 at 14:56 | history | answered | prash | CC BY-SA 3.0 |