the early 1700s?

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fart&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

12/21/2010 10:15:36 PM

I call bullshit, internet wasnt even around in the 1700s

12/21/2010 10:17:21 PM

Ye Olde Farte Schoole

12/21/2010 10:19:18 PM

I should clarify that this is only *printed* use of the word fart. like in books or something.

12/21/2010 10:19:28 PM

^^

12/21/2010 10:23:41 PM

maybe it was for "farthing"

twas a british coin

12/21/2010 10:24:46 PM

"Titties"

Quote :

"Antique monuments and rarities have been a hundred titties described in print, that many more of them still have been overlooked and omitted than are yet ..."

Quote :

"Let us lay it upon the Titties, as We are pleas'd to do some of our Sins ..."

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12/21/2010 10:56:13 PM

Panic has been on the rise.

12/21/2010 11:01:49 PM

i was curious

can you people guess what this chart represents?

12/21/2010 11:06:15 PM

what happened in 1900ish with this one

12/21/2010 11:09:31 PM

vagina :-]


It's no carnival tent.

[Edited on December 21, 2010 at 11:53 PM. Reason : .]

12/21/2010 11:53:35 PM

well how about that...

12/21/2010 11:56:33 PM

Bringing it back.



[Edited on December 22, 2010 at 12:22 AM. Reason : .]

12/22/2010 12:05:59 AM

12/22/2010 12:17:53 AM

Turns out this thing is case sensitive.



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12/22/2010 12:32:06 AM

this thing is bullshit

12/22/2010 12:35:47 AM

12/22/2010 12:37:23 AM

You can compare words with a comma between them:

12/22/2010 12:38:28 AM

Fun!

12/22/2010 12:42:47 AM

Can search in other languages, expand the the search period from 1500 to 2008, and change the amount of smoothing:

12/22/2010 12:54:07 AM

Quote :

"In the early-modern period, the word fart was not considered especially vulgar; it even surfaced in literary works. For example, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, included the word. Johnson defined it with two poems, one by Jonathan Swift, the other by Sir John Suckling.[7][8] In 1607, a group of Members of Parliament had written a ribald poem entitled The Parliament Fart, as a symbolic protest against the conservatism of the House of Lords and the king, James I.[9][10]"

Fart's page on wikipedia. So I guess it's not so far-fetched...

12/22/2010 1:27:46 AM

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12/22/2010 2:18:32 AM

[Edited on December 22, 2010 at 3:13 AM. Reason : lolz]

12/22/2010 3:09:52 AM

^ i find the second one interesting

12/22/2010 5:18:51 AM

re: cunt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

12/22/2010 1:34:05 PM

12/22/2010 2:45:52 PM

12/22/2010 2:48:59 PM

[Edited on December 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM. Reason : oops]

12/22/2010 2:49:51 PM

hell yeah, i got a whale fail

12/22/2010 2:53:52 PM

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12/22/2010 2:54:04 PM

Evil has been on the decline since the 1840s.

12/24/2010 12:21:47 AM

12/24/2010 12:38:46 AM

12/24/2010 12:54:13 AM

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1/1/2011 4:18:56 AM

^ that one actually blows my mind. my bet is that it just a question of what books have been uploaded thus far in english.

[Edited on January 3, 2011 at 2:00 AM. Reason : ``]

1/3/2011 1:59:50 AM