Pretty much every time I’ve seen an article that used Google ngrams as a secondary anecdote, it’s a bit of introductory fluff, and I pay zero attention to the i

Pretty much every time I’ve seen an article that used Google ngrams as a secondary anecdote, it’s a bit of introductory fluff, and I pay zero attention to the integrity of the analysis. It’s the equivalent of a journalist writing “people are saying…”.