essentially, anyone can search google's database of books to find how often a word shows up throughout time. any word.
what did you think i was going to pick?
what's interesting is that from 1800-2000, the word "turd" is hardly used. i had thought it might be the popular and more scientific alternative to using the word "poop" but evidently not. "poop" on the other hand, seems to have peaked sometime between the great depression and the nazis-- and then it quickly disappears.
poop does look like it's trying to make a comeback-- and with any luck, i'll be able to help.
i did take the liberty of expanding the time-frame and starting our findings in the 1600's, too. the results mostly confused me.
it seems like there were decades during that century that "poop" was not discussed at all. and other decades when poop was mentioned so frequently that i wonder what else authors were even writing about. furthermore, "turd" takes the cake during the 1600's at almost double the power of "poop"-- which is neat-- though, it also has the same up-and-down behavior that "poop" did.
anyway, i thought i would share this slice of scatological sociology-- especially because reading this post at an office job probably has your bosses thinking you are reading something entirely different and much more important than the usage-history of the word "poop" and "turd".
oh, graphs, you're even better than opening a game of solitaire to pretend i'm not looking at porn.
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