Another example: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fuck&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cfuck%3B%2Cc0 https:/

Another example: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fuck&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cfuck%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fuck&year_star... If you don't know what's going on it looks like the word "fuck" was more common in the 17th century than today. But actually it's the word "suck" written with a long s ("ſuck"), which you can see is easily OCRed incorrectly.