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Tuba vs. Sousaphone on Google Ngram Viewer
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:35 am
by David Richoux
I was messing about with this new Google program that searches all of their scanned library for word usage - the results for tuba,Sousaphone are rather dramatic!
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?cont ... moothing=3
(that tiny blue line is Sousaphone
Re: Tuba vs. Sousaphone on Google Ngram Viewer
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:57 pm
by Steve Inman
Look again at the scale of the "Y" axis -- if you zoom out to any reasonable scale, BOTH lines are essentially FLAT -- with a value of "zero" ....
(really, not too much difference between 0.00000 and 0.00005 ....)
Oh well ....
Re: Tuba vs. Sousaphone on Google Ngram Viewer
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:35 pm
by Chriss2760
Ok. I guess I always knew our tastes were esoteric. I still enjoy it.
Re: Tuba vs. Sousaphone on Google Ngram Viewer
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:40 am
by David Richoux
You also do have to figure the sample - Google is not inputting Band Director Magazine (is there such a thing?) or Modern Sousaphonist - they are doing books of general and technical interest, some in public domain, some not. Does "Tuba" show up in "The Great Gatsby?" - not sure, but I don't think so... neither does Sousaphone AFAIK