Today in Ngrams: Wars

[tahnan]

I've been slowly collecting interesting (to me, at least) ngram graphs from Google Ngram. I'm going to post them until I'm tired of it—sit back, it's going to be a while. Today's theme: war!

• Great War vs. First World War vs. Second World War. (On which I was scooped, but I swear I thought of it first.)
• Wars: Peloponnesian, Crimean, Korean, Vietnam. Nothing too startling, but interesting nonetheless. ("Peloponnesian" included as a sort of control case.)
• Poverty, Drugs, Terror. I'm surprised that, decades after the Johnson Administration, the War on Poverty was still much more discussed than the War on Drugs. And we can only hope that the War on Terror is as successful in ending terror as the War on Poverty was in ending poverty.