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Ngram of the Day: Man, What Is Your Deal? 1960-2008

Frequency of occurrence in the Google American English corpus. Blue is “smoking opium,” red is “smoking dope,” green is “smoking weed,” yellow is “smoking crack,” and purple “smoking something.”

Previously: “television” vs. “Bible” ; “anxiety” vs. “shame” ; “shopping” vs. “salvation,”   “bride” vs. “girlfriend,” “Black Sox” vs. “Rwandan genocide.”