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There are various tools that professionals use to analyze this question. Google Books' Ngrams data seems to be popular.

Here's a paper whose methodology addresses some of your question:

Jean-Baptiste Michel et al. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science 331, 176-182 (2011). DOI:10.1126/science.1199644

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1199644



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