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John Moore

A fun thing to do is enter your name in the amazing Ngram Viewer. Mine looks like this. The peak is explained, I presume, by the misfortunes of a gentleman who ran into a spot of bother in Spain. My other namesakes have failed in much less heroic ways. Don’t like the look of the graph, though. Seems we’re dying off as fast as butterflies in the UK
(Google Ngram charts word frequencies from a large corpus of books that were printed between 1500 and 2019)

a graph showing the frequency of use of the name John Moore from 1800 to 2019. The graph climbs steeply to year 1809, then there's a sudden drop and apart from a small increase in the 1830's the line falls steadily until reaching almost zero today
Feb 04, 2023, 06:59 AM·Public·Web
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