This week’s practicum was a lot of fun.  I tried many different words starting out with my wife’s name and mine.  The results were very interesting.  My name has been well used as far back as I could go.  My wife’s name (Sara) on the other hand has just recently become popular in the last few decades has it become popular.  After getting serious I was interested to know what correlation the word war, battle, and engagement had?  So this is what my Google Ngram looks like.

The results were very interesting. War apparently had been used quite a bit in the 1700s and it took about 60 years for the use of word war to taper off for well over a century. Once I have more time in my hands I am going to go back and look up a few more words to see what kind of results I can get.