The bloggosphere is all a-twitter over this new tool that shows you how often a particular word has been used, so somebody has to ask the obvious question. Puerile is my middle name, so I'll step up to the plate. Here is a chart of how much people use the word "fuck".
Looks like my dad was right, the world went to hell in a handbasket starting in about the 1960's, but wait, this doesn't look right. The records go back five hundred years, so ...
There, see? Makes you wonder what was up in 1585, but it puts things in perspective. We don't do fuck compared to those fuckers three hundred years ago. We'll need to do some serious fucking writing to catch the fuck up.
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