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CHICKEN vs. EGG

2000

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N-grams compare word usage over time, and track their rise and fall in populartiy. With tools such as Googles Ngram viewer, the trends are easier to visualize. Googles Ngram viewer tracks particular keywords from 5 million books over a span of 500 years. SEX vs. MARRIAGE
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KETCHUP vs. SALSA

Ketchup
1800

Sex

Marriage

Chicken

Egg

0.003% The age old question meets in the middle in 2000. 1700 0%

Marriage is a hotter topic than sex, but both 2000 decline in 2000.

Salsa

2000

Ketchup seems to always 0.00008% be more popular until 2000, when salsa boomed.

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RELIGION vs. SCIENCE

Religion Science
The term science was unheard of until 1780, and in 1930 it became more popular than the term religion.

GAY vs. HOMOSEXUAL

Gay Homosexual
0.003% 2000

FRANKFURTER vs. HOT DOG

0.000007% 2000

Frankfurter

Hotdog

0.03% 1750

2000

The word homosexual was 1700 nearly unheard of until the 1900s, both terms peaked around 1990. 0%

1800

Starting in the year 2000, the term hotdog becomes more commonly used.

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PLATO vs. ARISTOTLE

0.002% 1800

FREEDOM vs. JUSTICE

2000

WHAT, WHEN, WHY, WHERE

What Why
2000 1800

Plato

Aristole

Feedom

Justice

The term freedom became more popular than justice around 1920. 0.02%

When How
0.05%

People seem to ask when more than why. 2000

Sources: Informationisbeautiful.net, Google, Wikipedia

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For the philosophers Plato and Aristole, its always been a tight race, with both peaking in 1810. But Aristoles glass is half full by 2000 when he rises again.

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SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY LINDSAY OUELLETTE/QMI AGENCY