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Post #569115 by TikiTacky on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 11:49 AM

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Google released a tool that let's you search through 12,000,000 books going back to the mid 1600s for specific words or phrases. You can easily identify when things came into the conscious mainstream as evidenced thus: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Tiki%2C+tiki&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3