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"Soccer" By The Numbers, Literally ...: Historical Trends in the English Language

Soccer Quantified 14 May @ 06:36 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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I thought I'd take "Soccer By The Numbers" literally for a change. How? For years, Google has been busy digitizing books and printed materials, and they've been going back into historical archives. So now, researchers (and, well, anyone with access to a computer, like me) can search for words or phrases that have occurred in print over the past several hundred years, give or take.
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