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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Where were the 'Palestinians'?

This is making the rounds on Google Plus:
When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years.

Some enterprising person did a search below that I replicated here, demonstrating how recent the use of the phrases "Palestinian people" and Palestinian State" actually is -- at least in English.

Here is a graph, charting "Palestinian People" and "Palestinian People" vis-a-vis the word Palestine.
'Ancient Palestinian people' my....

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2 Comments:

At 9:18 AM, Blogger Shy Guy said...

In the interest of fairness and integrity

 
At 1:51 PM, Blogger Russel Harris said...

I dis did the same research on mentions of Jewish people,Jewish state,Israel

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Jewish+people,Jewish+state,Israel&year_start=1200&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share

 

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