Stanford Daily Ngrams
How often The Stanford Daily printed a word, every five years from 1892 to today: about 695,000 digitised articles to 2014, then the paper’s web site. Compare up to four, separated by commas. The same for Stanford’s thesis titles and its course catalogue, or all three at once →
Articles mentioning each word, per 10,000 articles
Articles per 10,000 that contain the word at least once. The archive's search matches word forms, so war also counts wars and warring. Old issues are OCR scans, so early counts are lower bounds. From 2015 the line is dashed: the scans stop and the count comes from stanforddaily.com’s own search, divided by 1.2, the factor its posts run above the scans for the same words in 2010–13, when both exist. A phrase stops at 2014 (that search can only match its words), and it skips very common words such as the. Hover or tap a period to read those articles; click one to see it year by year.