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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.

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2 comments:

  1. Shy Guy9:18 AM

    In the interest of fairness and integrity

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  2. Russel Harris1:51 PM

    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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