id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_kuaoa5c4sfctlhk7bmh43nbq6i J.-B. Michel Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books 2010 8 .pdf application/pdf 6393 1064 77 Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the English language between as changes in the lexicon and grammar, and cultural phenomena, such as how we remember people and events. the frequency of the words listed in leading dictionaries (7) (fig. Not all common 1-grams are English words. Using this technique, we estimated the number of words in the English lexicon as 544,000 in (10); the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (AHD4) lists Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, (C) Usage frequency over time for "the Great War" (blue), "World War I" (green), and "World War II" (red). Inset: Median frequency of new words added to AHD4 in 2000. time of the subsequent rise to fame (4 years, blue line); (iii) age of peak celebrity English and in German books (Fig. 4A). S. Algeo, Fifty Years among the New Words: ./cache/work_kuaoa5c4sfctlhk7bmh43nbq6i.pdf ./txt/work_kuaoa5c4sfctlhk7bmh43nbq6i.txt