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CHICKEN vs. EGG

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N-grams compare word usage over time, and track their rise and fall in populartiy. With tools such as Googles Ngram viewer, the trends are easier to visualize. Googles Ngram viewer tracks particular keywords from 5 million books over a span of 500 years.

SEX vs. MARRIAGE

Sex Marriage
Marriage is a hotter topic than sex, but both decline in 2000. 2000

KETCHUP vs. SALSA

Ketchup
1800

Salsa
0.00008% 2000

Chicken

Egg
0.003%

2000

Ketchup seems to always be more popular until 2000, when salsa boomed.

The age old question meets in the middle in 2000. 0%

1700 0% 0%

RELIGION vs. SCIENCE

Religion Science
The term science was unheard of until 1780, and in 1930 it became more popular than the term religion. 0.03% 2000 1700 0% 0%

GAY vs. HOMOSEXUAL

Gay Homosexual
0.003%

FRANKFURTER vs. HOT DOG

0.000007% 2000

Frankfurter

Hotdog

1750

The word homosexual was nearly unheard of until the 1900s, both terms peaked around 1990.

2000

Starting in the year 2000, the term hotdog becomes more commonly used. 1800

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PLATO vs. ARISTOTLE

Plato
0.002%

FREEDOM vs. JUSTICE

Feedom Justice

WHAT, WHEN, WHY, WHERE

What Why When How
0.05% 2000

Aristole

2000

0.02% 2000 1800 1800 For the philosophers Plato and Aristole, its always been a tight race, with both peaking in 1810. But Aristoles glass is half full by 2000 when he rises again. 0%
Sources: Informationisbeautiful.net, Google, Wikipedia

People seem to ask when more than why.

The term freedom became more popular than justice around 1920. 0% 0%
SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY LINDSAY OUELLETTE/QMI AGENCY