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What Google's new tool can show us about audio terms...

Arkay

Arkay

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Since its introduction quite recently, I've been having fun using a tool called "Google Ngram Viewer" to explore word-frequency graphs from Google's extensive compilation of things written in English.

I just posted an application of this, in a thread discussing the term "LP Player", here:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2


I thought it might be fun to start a separate thread about this, showing some other graphs, and giving others a chance to post the results of searches that occur to them.

Here are a few more graphs, preceded by the word or phrase that is being shown in each:

disc jockey:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

high fidelity:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

vinyl record:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

78RPM record:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

LP record:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2




tube amplifier:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

solid state amplifier:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2




stereo:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

monophonic:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

quadraphonic:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2



neutrodyne:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

heterodyne:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2


FOR FUN, SOME SLANG/POP CULTURE TERMS:

Groovy:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=groovy&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

hepcat:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=hepcat&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

jitterbug:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2


shutterbug:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

Gilligan's Island:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

Hogan's Heroes:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2


Britney Spears:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

Madonna:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2
(Obviously, this includes religious references)

Lady Gaga:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?...start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2
(Looks as it should be, to me! :D)



A few tips if you want to search things: (1) Entries are case-sensitive. (2) Do not put phrases in quotation marks, unless you want to search for occurrences in print that include the quotation marks. (3) If you want to search multiple words or phrases, but not together as one phrase, then insert a comma between each separate item (word or phrase) being searched.

I got very strange results with brand names. sansui (regardless of the small "s") got a bunch of replies, spiking with mentiones of sansui encoding, during the quad era, but Marantz (with small or large "M") got virtually no hits --not enough to make a visible graph. Weird, if you ask me!

Over to you guys now, if you are interested! :D
 
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Oh, I just did one more search. If you've ever wondered what era Grumpy really comes from, and thus how old he must be, check this out:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Grumpy&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

:D



(Okay, I expect one of Snow White's seven dwarves may have biased this a little bit... :D)



Oh, and just to be fair, if you'd like to know what era of Audio gear Arkay really knows, check out the search results for his name:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Arkay&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2

:banana: :D
 
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I see solid state amplifiers dropping, guess we are really becoming old school with all the mp3 players & ear buds out there
 
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