December 2010
1 post
Fun with NGrams
Well here’s an interesting one:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=female+scientist%2C+male+scientist&year_start=1900&year_end=2000
How might these curves be analysed? The term scientist started to be found in books at around the mid 1800s, according to this fascinating website, but to see the phrase ‘female scientist’ was unheard of until 1900. Since then,...