Course:COGS200/2017W1/NGramAssignment/KaylaGarvin

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natural philosophy, physics

before physics became it's own independent science, it used to be under the realm of "natural philosophy"

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afraid of the *

dark and consequences seem to be what most people are "afraid of". Possible ideas of being "afraid of the dark" could be attributed to the rise and popularity of horror films (which were popular during the 1930s and 1980s), or possible widespread use of the lightbulb in the late 1800s, where Edison has been known to advertise his products in such a way to sway public opinion

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call_INF someone

"call" is a lot more popular than "calling"

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google_*

Google as the name of the search company became popular around the time of google's founding in the late 1990s, the adjective google follows in a close 2nd.

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• _NOUN,*_VERB

The most common words in the English language over the past 200 years. Verbs are used a lot more often than Nouns.