If you are a geek like me you'll love this little invention from Google labs. They have come up with an application that searches through Google Books to find the frequency of words and phrases in books published over the last 200 years.
Here are the three Bs; Bach, Beethoven and Brahms in English books 1800-2000:
If music isn't your thing and you're a theology geek then you may want to invent another set of Bs; Balthasar, Barth, Bultmann and Brunner in English books 1919-2000 (click on image for a clearer view):
And then compare the difference in German literature:
Of course you can't say too much because you don't really know the sample, and there may be another Barth which everyone is writing about to skew the stats. What conclusions would you tentatively draw though?
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