Google Ngram Viewer.

[eclair]

Digital trends:

A collaboration between Google and Harvard University has brought us Ngram Viewer, a service that analyzes how often certain terms have appeared in millions of books over a specific time range. Since Ngram Viewer uses Google Books as a search database, you’re getting somewhat limited results – approximately five million books, or about four percent ever published. Still, the archive features a sampling of different languages, including Chinese, German, Russian, French, Spanish, and English.
With the tool, you can search the popularity of up to five different words or phrases that have appeared since 1800 via a table charting each term’s growth or decline. You can narrow your search to a specific language, or wade through the entire database.

Here it is: Ngrams

Clearly a most productive use of my time, it has helped me to discover,
'Cream' has been used more often than 'cheese'
'man' more than 'woman'
'breasts' more than 'penis'
'dog' more than 'cat'
'ass' more than 'arse'
and so on.

 

[sparkchaser]

That's a pretty nifty tool.

 

[Peder]

Onto the Favorites list!

Good catch! :flowers: