The following graph was modeled off of the Google NGram Viewer. In a Google NGram Viewer "when you enter phrases/words into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases/words have occurred in a corpus of books over the selected years." This graph varies from Google Ngram Viewer in many ways; however, it was still the base model. The graph below, similar to the Google NGram viewer, displays the frequency of a word within the available sample data over time. Aside from the obvious difference, one difference is that this graph focuses on multiple forms of a single word (cheap) based off of parts of speech instead of spelling variations or a different word. Another difference is that the sample data this graph used is only from the samples provided within the project versus the extensive selection of Google books used by Google NGram Viewer.

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The graph is both a reflection of cheap's use in history and an example of the data provided on this site. In researching the progression and digression of cheap's specific parts of speech it is evident both in this graph and in the sample information that the noun use went out of existence entirely by the 18th century. Another obvious point is that the adjective became the most commonly used form and is the dominating form to this day. The lines correlated with the verbs and adverbs are skewed based on the samples chosen because I decided for the last two centuries represented to focus on the adjective use. Therefore the part of this graph that best represents the historical use of cheap are the noun and adjective lines.