Changes

:"-ism" is usually a pejorative ending, as in "isolationism".  Hence the decline in use of "conservatism" supports the thesis that conservative words are rapidly increasing.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 23:36, 8 September 2013 (EDT)

:"-ism" is usually a pejorative ending, as in "isolationism".  Hence the decline in use of "conservatism" supports the thesis that conservative words are rapidly increasing.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 23:36, 8 September 2013 (EDT)

::Since the mid 1960s use of the word "conservative" stopped growing percentage wise in usage and then post 2000 use of the word started to fall as can be seen [http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conservative&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= HERE].  The world "conservative" though can be used outside of politics. But there is some correlation to someone who is "conservative" in their spending habits (and other habits) and them being a political conservative though. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 04:55, 9 September 2013 (EDT)

::Since the mid 1960s use of the word "conservative" stopped growing percentage wise in usage and then post 2000 use of the word started to fall as can be seen [http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conservative&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= HERE].  The world "conservative" though can be used outside of politics. But there is some correlation to someone who is "conservative" in their spending habits (and other habits) and them being a political conservative though. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 04:55, 9 September 2013 (EDT)