Post #569254 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sat, Dec 18, 2010 10:48 AM

On 2010-12-17 13:27, bigbrotiki wrote:
Wow, what the hell kind of books were published in the early 30s that made the word peak even way beyond the World bestseller "Kon Tiki" around 1950 !!? :

A few from that time period were from collections of Polynesian mythology. But for the the majority of uses...

It looks like there was a lot of use of the word "tiki-tiki" in medical journals at the time.

"An alcohol extract of rice polishings (tiki tiki) has been used successfully for some purposes. ... Mixtures of tiki tiki and liver extracts proved more useful. "University of Missouri--Columbia. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1931

"In testing for vitamin G (B2) the only modification of the original diet was the addition of tiki-tiki extract as a ... The tiki-tiki was obtained from the Philippine Islands. It is an extract prepared from rice polishings and is used ... " Georgia Experiment Station - 1931 -

It was used that way in many journals throughout the world at the time. It probably spiked because it was used twice each time, and again several times in each article. That would up the usage % count.

You can see which books it is used in, and he context if you click on the years below the graph.

It was also used by the birds of souhern Rhodesia:
"It is a shy bird in places and will readily take to flight when it sees a human being, flying from one tree to another as one advances, uttering its alarm note ' tiki-tiki-tiki' or a single note of 'chuk.'"

Buzzy Out!