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by Groxx 5525 days ago
Or the 1700s: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=geek&year_sta...

Perhaps weirder, "Woot": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Woot&year_sta...
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iunk 5525 days ago
Seems like some are incorrect when i look at the scanned pages and one of those says Geck instead of Geek http://books.google.com/books?id=gvYqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA497&#...
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Groxx 5525 days ago
Ah, good point. This is generated by OCR + reCAPTCHA, error is guaranteed to creep in.
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