Ngram Searching

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 21, 2010

Ben Zimmer, writer of the New York Times Magazine "On Language" column, plays with Google's new Ngram linguistic search tool and looks through lists of comparisons.

Post your suggestions from the Ngram search tool below

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