words Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/words/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:23:43 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Pollyanna and Cassandra https://ounodesign.com/2009/12/21/how-did-pollyanna-and-cassandra-fare-in-2009/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/12/21/how-did-pollyanna-and-cassandra-fare-in-2009/#respond Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:23:43 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=7659

I anxiously await the 2009 NYT Trender tool so we can see how things have changed since 2008, a year in which Cassandra ended on the decline while Pollyanna was on the ascendant.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/12/21/how-did-pollyanna-and-cassandra-fare-in-2009/feed/ 0 The words we use when we think about design, 1984 to 2009 https://ounodesign.com/2009/02/18/new-york-times-visualizations-by-jer-thorp/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/02/18/new-york-times-visualizations-by-jer-thorp/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:47:17 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=2455

This graph shows the occurrence of the terms “decor” (blue) and “interior design” (red) in The New York Times between 1984 and 2009. What happened to the word “decor”? It fell out of usage in approximately February, 2001, maybe a result of a change in editorial style policy?

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