Saturday, 18 December 2010
Ghost kicks Vampire ass
Those lovely and not at all sinister corporate types at Google have devised a new toy called Books Ngram viewer. It lets you graph the number of reference to a particular word or phrase over time in many published works. When I typed in ghost, vampire, zombie and werewolf I found that ghost is way ahead, but vampire put a right old spurt on lately. Teenagers, eh? Poor old zombie and werewolf didn't get a look in. I couldn't include mummy for obvious reasons.
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Sadly I fear that "ghost" may be as misleading as "mummy". All the references to Holy Ghost, ghost towns, "ghost of a chance", "Great Caesar's Ghost!', ghost fish, Norton software - none of which, I think, relate to the sort of thing you had in mind. I'll give you the movie, which probably accounts for many hits also.
What I wonder now is whether "vampire ass" is now a Googlewhack, a phrase that gets exactly one Google hit.
Wow, not even close. It turns out everything from werewolves to lolcats to Abe Lincoln has availed itself of an opportunity to kick vampire ass.
I take your point. That said, surely vampire has been used rather widely outside the realms of supernatural fiction?
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