COGS200Group36
Compare: car, bus, truck & automobile
Car is the most used word. And the categorical word ‘automobile’ is the least.
c) Clicking the words: Car: Railcars (trains), Development of the electric car, Car in the British society Truck: Truck driving (Testing), Truck Farming, Bus: Bus companies, Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks) Automobile: Culture and Age of Automobiles, Engineering
d) The car was an upper class cultural privilege back in the early 1900’s so it was published in many books. It was also the automobile that was the most prevalent throughout the years. Bus was mostly influenced by the controversy of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. And Truck is prevalent in books related to learning how to drive one and farming. Lastly, automobile in just a categorical word which is why it is so low in mentions.
Wildcard: Hey *
c) ‘Hey there’ is the most commonly used phrase in literature then it descends to ‘Hey and’ then eventually to ‘Hey was’ which is the least ‘Hey’ phrase used
Clicking the phrases Top: ‘Hey there’ - Mostly greetings and books that give an emphasis to the subject of the story or its audience Mid: ‘Hey and’ - Poetry and Songs Lowest: ‘Hey was’ - Anything from biographies, to novels, to political journals
d) ‘Hey there’ is a commonly used greeting, more so in the 1800’s, therefore it is not surprising to find it at the top of the list. ‘Hey and’ is not as commonly used, but frequents in poetry. ‘Hey’ is used to address someone, possibly the reader, then moves on with ‘and’. ‘Hey was’ is not used often at all. Most of the books refer to ‘Hey’ as a person. Unless addressing someone then asking a particular question starting with ‘was’, it is often used in that manner.
cook_INF, bird_INF a+b) https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=cook_INF&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t3%3B%2Ccook_INF%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bcook%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcooking%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcooked%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcooks%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=bird_INF&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t3%3B%2Cbird_INF%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bbirds%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbird%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbirding%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbirded%3B%2Cc0 There is a sharp decline in references to ‘cook’ from about 1942 to 1967, where it shoots up again to it’s previous baseline. ‘Bird’ gradually declines from 1922 to the present day.
c+d) Results for cook and cooking are mostly refering to cook books, which would make it seem to imply that from the period between 1942 to 1967 they had fallen out of fashion, possibly set off by the second world war which made resources scarcer, so more elaborate meals were less popular. Earlier results for ‘bird’ and ‘birds’ mostly refer to natural science books which apear to have had a steady decline in popularity since 1926.
flush_NOUN, flush_VERB
Flush used as a noun displays an upward slope from early 1800s until peaking at 1900, and then trending downwards subsequently. As a verb, the graph slowly and steadily increases over time
c) The repetitive use of this word in "City Documents" https://books.google.ca/books?id=YnxDAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA69&dq=%22flush%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj66Na7lJDXAhUB12MKHUEtBSgQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=%22flush%22&f=false and "Legislative Documents" https://books.google.ca/books?id=q5BKAAAAMAAJ&q=%22flush%22&dq=%22flush%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOnPiSlZDXAhUM32MKHVpGAS8Q6AEIKzAB might be the driving effect of this massive increase depicted from the graph.
d) Flush is more commonly used as a noun opposed to a verb. Early uses in books as a noun, include a royal flush or a flush in card games, a bead/reed flush; whereas a verb, flush to the cheeks. Though due to the widespread of sanitation requirements, in the late 1900s, this word is now more often than not used as a verb referring to the flushing of toilets.
- _NOUN, *_VERB
a+b)
- _NOUN
- _VERB
- _NOUN, *_VERB
We can see that generally Verbs occur much more than Nouns. Also we notice that among verbs, verbs such as ‘is’ and ‘are’ that almost always are used in creating a sentance occur the most.
c)
- _VERB
Is : we can see that it is natural that the verb ‘is’ is used so often because it almost always comes out in forming any sentence.
was : Basically the same principle as the word ‘is’. Since ‘was’ is the past tense of ‘is’, it is quite the same reason
For both ‘is’ and ‘was’, they form approximately a normal model peaking at around 1900 and 1920.
- _NOUN
time : Apparently, ‘time’ is the most used word. The frequency of it is quite constant to this day. This shows that books that usually talk about philosophical thoughts quite often involve ‘time’.
people : When looking at ‘people’, we can see a slight decrease from late 18’s to 19’s, and an increase from late 19’s to 20’s. By this, we can say that the interest in ‘people’ has increased in the recent times.
d) It is natural that we see verbs more than nouns it is also natural that we see the words ‘is’ and ‘was’ a lot since they are almost always used in forming any sentence.
Something interesting that we see is when we look at the noun words. We can see through the constant interest around time, that time has always been our deep interest even throughout the exponential development of science.
Also through the drastic increase in the frequency of the word ‘people’, we can see the effect of humanism.