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vinnyd
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A number of people here, includng me, have regretted the inability to contrast trends in British and American English. Well, now you can.

You can also use the fact that words are now tagged for part of speech. And a lot more books are in the database.

At least, that article says you can do those things. But when I look at the ngram viewer, I don't see how. I get the same choices as I did yesterday. How do I, e.g., contrst British and American?

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zashibis
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Unhelpfully, Google doesn't tell you (perhaps they meant to, but are a little busy walking back today's screw up?) but if you take the relevant link in the Atlantic article you can see how the variables were entered with the search term separated from the corpus by a colon, and then a comma and the second search term and corpus (e.g. gone missing:eng_us_2012,gone missing:eng_gb_2012)

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vinnyd
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Thanks, zashibis.

That's not entirely self-evident, is it?

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nutraxfornerves
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More information here. Not exactly easy to understand

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vinnyd
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It should be mentioned for non-link-clickers that there are more languages than English available now.

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