When Did Authors Start Swapping In ‘Gay’ For ‘Homosexual’? Google Knows!
Dumping the contents, word for word, of some five million books into a massive searchable database, Google has unleashed something that’s akin to Google Trends — for the historical written word. All five hundred billion of them.
The search giant’s Books Ngram Viewer lets you see how often certain words appeared over the course of history.
Naturally, we wanted to check up on the ‘fags’.
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