I just came across this website: It calculates how many times a word, a phrase is mentioned on the google books archive. But the catch is, it can be used also as a form of verification.
I was trying to understand the difference between "finish" and "have finished". On one of the blog sites, the guy supported his argument with a link to ngrams saying that the one used the most would be the correct usage (or the most correct usage). So my question is what if all these books use it wrong? Do numbers really tell whether something is true or not? Are we going to decide on the correct usage of a term by looking at its popular usage rather than looking at grammar rules?
https://books.google.com/ngrams
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